<<ERIC: Hey, I'm not being competitive. Just wanted to send a lot of poems. Boorish maybe, but competitive? Never.>> Poetry is one of the very few things, beauties, that convinces me humans are worth existing, when all else is ugly and painful. Today was a very, very good day to receive an infusion of Beauty. I'm glad you posted the poems. I'm particularly struck by Ira Sadoff's -- I don't know why I don't know him, but I must look for more of his stuff. "Apocalypse at Work" works equally perfectly well as Apocalypse at Home, btw. I absolutely love it. Julie Krueger recognizing the first sentence is unutterably cumbersome and awkward but with no real motivation to fix it. ========Original Message======== Subj: [lit-ideas] Re: SECOND FRIDAY POEM Date: 4/22/05 4:11:01 P.M. Central Daylight Time From: _eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) To: _lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) Sent on: PAUL: Now... I'm going to be forced to include one of my OWN "poems from the drawer" as well so as to keep with the Yosts's ERIC: Hey, I'm not being competitive. Just wanted to send a lot of poems. Boorish maybe, but competitive? Never. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html