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   From: rre@mla001.demon.co.uk   
      
   In message , Pip   
    writes   
   >Sorry Rob, but that qualifies as poetry in your mind only.  Its really just   
   >prose hacked into stanzas.  It has no internal music, or playful word   
   >pyramids.  Its a fun prose read though, IF you were to relate it to a story,   
   >which, in the context of this "poem" is not related to a story.  It does   
   >completely fail as a character sketch though, which is about as much as you   
   >could get out of it.  Frankly, I don't think that it could be edited to the   
   >point of publishing.  Good effort.  Keep trying.   
      
   It has been published.  It has also been used as a poster poem for the   
   Cheltehham Literature Festival.  It's also a "signature" poem that gets   
   the most requests at public readings.  Maud and, more importantly,   
   Maud's friends consider it to be an affectionate and accurate (only   
   slightly exaggerated) character sketch.  As for the internal music,   
   reading it aloud would reveal the stresses.   
      
   It's not a great poem in my opinion but it's a good one by the opinion   
   of many others.  And since many of them are prepared to pay to hear it,   
   I think I can assume that they are not just being kind.   
      
   Are you sure you wouldn't be more comfortable trying to bite Vagina?   
   Ignorance is no disadvantage in that arena.   
      
   Rob   
   --   
   Rob Evans   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)