Thank you for illustrating how easy it is to write a poem. S ----- Original Message ----- From: Mike Geary To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 11:56 PM Subject: [lit-ideas] HOW TO WRITE A POEM HOW TO WRITE A POEM First, pick a word, any word, any old word at all (here's a hinth: don't pick 'orange' or 'month' or 'plinth' because soon you'll have to find a rhyme so look for ones with sounds a dime a dozen, one with lots of phonic cousins) --- which reminds me, suppose a man loves a woman and a woman loves a man suppose now, if you can, they get married in Mississippi (where they both lived as happy as a hippy) but ten years later things turned nippy so to Vagas they go and get a divorce, of course. Now I ask you would they still be cousins? All in all it's much easier to write a poem than it is to right a Brougham. so take it easy in the corners. unless you want to join the mourners. Mike Geary Memphis