Date:         Wed, 19 Mar 1997 23:40:13 EST
From: tricks and tinks <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
Subject:      TECH: CK expanded (was: let's kick the doc...)

[remember the pondering about whether poetry could be poetry if you
could take the line spacing out and make it into prose?  can prose be
prose when a few line breaks and spacing makes it breath poetry?

maybe this should be a sub?

tink]

Words from  CK <vixxen@SOJOURN.COM> on Wed, 19 Mar 1997 16:31:50 EST

a practice of pure narcissism.

There is no shame in writing
for one's self,
nor

is there a definite need

to ever please
or prescribe

a deeper meaning
for anyone
outside ourselves.

If we do, that is a wonderful thing.

But I do not believe
it is any sign

of greater maturity,
or artistic genius,

than if we are
merely trying to write

to make sense for ourselves,
or write to produce

something "shapely and exquisite."