>>> Item number 14613 from WRITERS LOG9307B --- (51 records) ----- <<< Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1993 17:00:02 JST Reply-To: WRITERS Sender: WRITERS From: Mike Barker Subject: SUBtle(NOT!): nuisance dust? don't look at me... -Yup. It's in the air. Maybe a form of nuisance dust infecting us -both, something like Tinkerbells fairie dust? Or maybe the language -really is open to poetic usage and most of us don't recognise at -first. Nuisance Dust Attack and Poetic Abuse wild poems flourish magic blossoms hidden if at first you don't recognize fold, spindle, bend and mutilate spin dry and wring by hand great (gesundheit) wild poems fill the air beware the vowels that clash, the consonants that catch... the verbs that slash, the nouns that mash, caesura running out of breath! and deadly dull manuals slow weighted mass crushing out all meaning, at length. and catch the flaming words in nets of 'lectric light go get 'em, wandy! tink (now where did I leave the itching powder? and the string .. hello, sir, could you hold this while I go around the corner ------------ --------------\ | | \------------- ah, hello, ma'am, could you hold this while I go around the corner? Oh, just for a while. Thanks... (beat it quick.. who knows how long they'll stand there holding the ends of that string before one of them decides to see where I went....) ***tink***