From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!menlo70!sytek!zehntel!zinfandel!steve
Newsgroups: net.poems
Title: letting tale wag doggerel - (nf)
Article-I.D.: zehntel.797
Posted: Wed Mar  2 01:20:40 1983
Received: Tue Mar  8 06:45:18 1983

#N:zinfandel:9700002:000:525
zinfandel!steve    Mar  1 06:52:00 1983


			Mermaiden
	
	The sea cow, the manatee,
	At once a mermaid!
	Pretty floating 'neath my wond'ring eye.
	I beckon you but now you disappear
	And slip away.  I cry,
	"O thou of which we dream at night
	In seaborn fantasy's delight
	Return someday to this forgotten place and time
	Remind me, beautious design of flesh and line
	So dear."  I call, you hear, swim ever near,
	Then slowly drift away.  We part.
	And vanish from desirous heart:
	The sea cow, the manatee,
	And once a mermaid.


circa 1980 zinfandel!steve nelson