Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site gloria.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!houxm!houxz!vax135!floyd!cmcl2!seismo!rochester!rocksvax!sunybcs!gloria!colonel From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (George Sicherman) Newsgroups: net.poems Subject: more purple poetry Message-ID: <241@gloria.UUCP> Date: Wed, 13-Jun-84 15:08:50 EDT Article-I.D.: gloria.241 Posted: Wed Jun 13 15:08:50 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 15-Jun-84 00:28:26 EDT Distribution: net.poems,net.jokes Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science Lines: 22 [what cow?] Where did you find That purple tuxedo? At "Boutique for the Blind" In downtown Toledo. Professor Doberman: In this latest wave of neo-romantic poetry, one cannot help detecting a discordant note of intolerance, or rather of insensitivity to the reader's legitimate experiential wants. While the form of the poem is as rigidly classical as any of Pound's cantos, the author evidently has difficulty in sustaining the appropriate tone. To put it quite simply, the poem lacks maturity. It propels its author at once into the back rank of unestablished poets. The author replies: He misses the point. Limericks aren't meant to be political. -- Col. G. L. Sicherman ...seismo!rochester!rocksanne!rocksvax!sunybcs!gloria!colonel