[lit-ideas] Re: If I wrote poetry ...

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> From: david ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 9/30/2005 1:16:38 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: If I wrote poetry ...
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> On Sep 29, 2005, at 12:38 PM, Andy Amago wrote of William McGonagall
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> Oh what a bleak and rainy and wet Western Oregon day it was when Andy  
> Amago,
> revealed his love for the poet William McGonagall, who tempts us to  
> follow
> him along perfectly weird verbal trails.
> And oh how many sad imitators fail,
> so incredible is the master's ability,
> to choose the wrong word with absolute felicity,
> so great is his understanding of rhyme,
> and, of course, it is not everyone who has that poet's sense of time
> ing.
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Hey, he gets no respect, the Rodney Dangerfield of the poet world.  He's my
man.


Andy






> David Ritchie
> Portland, Oregon
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