on 11/7/04 5:05 PM, Mike Geary at atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Thank you, David. I loved your poem. I don't what it is with you and the > mussels, but there it is. I try to accept the world as it is. I try not > to moralize. Gulls, though, they sing like me, they've got to go. > Why mussels? I don't know. I'm finding out. It's like painting; if I knew where I was going, I might not try. The flip answer is that, like Mr. Disney, I feel the need for a theme. Maybe one day you'll look for a slim molluscular volume titled, "Mussels for Starters," stuck to the remainder desk of a bookstore near you? Send all gulls to Alcatraz is my advice; they're short of them there. The National Park Service spends your tax dollars--those that aren't needed for bombers and so on--protecting gulls from those gullible people who pay to go and see an ex-prison. Boy that Dad stuff was good. David Ritchie Portland, Oregon ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html