Author: Albert Silver
Date: 05:26:18 01/29/00
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On January 28, 2000 at 19:02:23, Enrique Irazoqui wrote:
>On January 28, 2000 at 18:49:03, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>Now that Rebel Century has been mathmatically eliminated:
>>
>> "Charles Unruh Is Smarter Than I Am"
>>
>> The rain on the window forms in serpentine streaks
>> But the ice in my heart forms the ones on my cheeks.
>> The glacier of loss crushes inch at a time
>> A positional move, that was much too sublime.
>>
>> Stumbling forward in an ill-advised fight
>> But my sacrifice lead to a fork with his knight.
>> The mouse in his maze, tripped and stumbled right in
>> While the reclining Charles had a Cheshire Cat grin.
>>
>> My ignorance froze like a log in the sky
>> To tired to run or to hide or to cry.
>> The log was my king, now with face to the ground
>> Since everyone heard it, yes, it did make a sound.
>>
>>
>>BTW, Charles Unruh is probably better looking than I am too.
>>I am informed by a literary expert who has already perused this work, that it is
>>a sweaty monument of unfathomable lameness.
>>;-)
>
>Let's see... (what is one supposed to say in these cases without offending) In
>my humble opinion you didn't miss a career as a poet, although with some further
>refinement you may go far, the sooner the better. :)
>
>No, no. That was rude. Let's try again: in your poem there are new things and
>there are good things. The problem is that whatever is new is no good and what
>is good is not new. Uf! Better? :)
>
>Enrique
No, no, no. I couldn't disagree more. Not new? How can you say a 12-line sonnet
is not new? Of all the poems written and dedicated to Charles, this is the most
brilliant and eloquent of them all. Besides, kudos to Dann, for it would never
occur to me to write a poem celebrating defeat. :-)
Albert Silver
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