XPost: alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.philosophy.zen   
   From: wudao@wuji.net   
      
   Ummmmmmm wrote:   
   > {:-]))) responded to Ummmmmmm's knowing him:   
   >   
   >> If you knew me quite as well as you may say   
   >> then you would know how my puns work in my own mind,   
   >   
   >I'm sure they work very well in your own mind. The question is, do they   
   >work in anyone else's? It might be courteous to enquire.   
      
   I know how they do knot.   
   In the minds of sum, as they are summed.   
      
   If English is a second language, they are often nonsense.   
   What sounds to me as being all good pun in the Sun,   
   with an accent, sounds entirely different.   
      
   If someone is only able to read, literally, and not listen,   
   then that one is unable to sound the depths of sound.   
   How sound any logic is is unsound to them.   
   Know matter as the words may dew.   
      
   The twain may be fathoms.   
   Marking words leaves on the marks.   
   Leaves leave them as fallen trees.   
   Dead as a door nail having hit them.   
   Missing them in the dead knights.   
      
   Getting set, they go. Stopping.   
   Dead in their tracks after the gun sounds.   
   They do not finish the race. They never got out.   
   Of the starting blocks.   
      
   Blocked by the sounds.   
   Blocked by the spells.   
   Spelling puts on the words.   
   Spelling casts its own spell.   
      
   Yet now three in the morning is almost over.   
      
   Prehaps four in the afternoon would be better.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)