From: gadfly@NOSPAMmeow.org   
      
   On Wednesday 02 March, Diana wrote in rec.arts.poems:   
      
   > ggamble wrote:   
   >> On 2 Mar 2005 01:24:32 -0800, "Diana"    
   >> wrote:   
      
   >> >An orange or red that can't be   
   >> >defined begs fervently for existence   
   >>   
   >> Ick.   
      
   > This has happened everyime I have used the word "begs". I suppose "begs   
   > fervently" takes it to new levels of ickdom. Noted and assimilated.   
      
   You forgot to include "for existence".   
      
   "Begs fervently for existence"?   
      
   Are you talking about a dog from another dimension? Heel, Orange!   
   Fetch, Red!   
      
   Gary posts the same simple rules for beginners over and over again   
   (without much attention being paid to them, unfortunately), but here's   
   one I don't remember him using:   
      
   "Try to make the images that arise in your reader's mind not be   
   hilarious."   
      
   PJR :-)   
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