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   From: will_dockery@knology.net   
      
   Baba-cat, the real baba-cat wrote:   
   > "Will Dockery" wrote:   
   > > "Baba-cat, the real baba-cat" wrote:   
   >   
   > >> >> But "non-expressive" writings have a different   
   > >> >> treatment under copyright law.   
   > >> >>   
   > >> >> Dale never created a literary work. (in /that/)   
   > >> >> You didn't infringe a literary work.   
   > >> >> No money was involved.   
   > >> >> Dale can fuck himself.    
   > >> >> Why stress??? ... and the moron invents   
   > >> >> imaginary lawyers.  Hilarious.   
   > >> >   
   > >> > It was great multimedia performance art, spanning Usenet,   
   Playgrounds, bar   
   > >> > conversation and ultimately resulting in "Ballad Of Hasty Pudding",   
   which   
   > >> > began as "Her Lark Colony".   
   > >>   
   > >> Not to mention driving idiot Dalesy from poetry Usenet.   
   > >> He deserves it for lying about lawyers.   
   > >>   
   > >> >> > Dale gave me permission   
   > >> >> > to use his poem in a musical adaptation, which   
   > >> >> > would have had a much wider circulation, including dozens of   
   > >> >> > performances a year,   
   > >> >>   
   > >> >> A signed contract is best. FAX will do.   
   > >> >   
   > >> > Wasn't worth the trouble... easier to write my own.   
   > >>   
   > >> His  wasn't much good for performance.   
   > >   
   > > It needed heavy re-writes and rhyme, and no doubt would have developed   
   > > in repeated performance:   
   >   
   > Performance/ music/ poetry share some common elements.   
   >   
   > In poetry it is most important   
   > to remember "the most important thing".   
   >   
   > Performance/ music don't seem to require   
   > tight underware.   
      
   Looseness and a band that nails it tight is what's important there, and I'm   
   lucky to have both in spades...   
      
   > > ----   
   > > Her Lark Colony   
   > >   
   > > You & her white cake item   
   > > pass abruptly abandoned nuns   
   > > in this naked salt century.   
   > >   
   > > I'll voice stamp her white behind   
   > > by the white, white pylons   
   > > of absinthe-folding trench nuns.   
   > >   
   > > A collector's each-night's-a-staircase   
   > > is you tasting like almond feet   
   > > upon the blue-white wake by her white tuba   
   > > with abruptly white nuns, item-white.   
   > >   
   > > Her almond is not almond-white   
   > > like a red collector's guns   
   > > in this absinthe-folding army.   
   > >   
   > > By the collector's scarf-salt-tasting century,   
   > > I'll not scarf her nun's almond item,   
   > > which is the wake-white voice, you.   
   > >   
   > > -Dale M Houstman   
   > > ----   
   > >   
   > > Amazing at the time that he gave permission for me to use it.   
   > >   
   > > Barbara's Cat wrote:   
   > >> > > "stop typing stupid, stupid."   
   > >> > >  - Renay's advise   
   > >> > You mean /advice/, right Barbie?   
   > >   
   > > Now available in condensed, /catshit-poetry free/ version:   
   > >   
   > >> You little harlet you!   
   > >>                     ^^^^^^   
   > >>    SCAT> "Missing Testicals"   
   > >>                   ^^^^^^^^^   
   > >>    SCAT> You shouldn't have ate that day, Vonnie Leigh.   
   > >>                             ^^^   
   > >>    SCAT> you'd ate seven Soft-Shell Taco Supremes   
   > >>                ^^^   
   > >>    SCAT> I want to breath your air   
   > >>                    ^^^^^^   
   > > Ready for Hallmark Hammy's /slurp polish/.   
      
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