Perfect! --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Strangely, I probably had a faint memory of this poem > somewhere in the back of my mind when I wrote the poo- > poo head line. Billy, before he was Poet Laureate, > went to the same college I did. We used to get stoned > together. He was funny then, and he's funny now. :-) > > --- In [email protected], "Patrick Gillam" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > > you are not a relable source of information. Go back > > > to Langley, you rakshasa poo-poo head! > > > > http://tinyurl.com/d4hoc > > > > Child Development, by Billy Collins > > > > As sure as prehistoric fish grew legs > > and sauntered off the beaches into forests > > working up some irregular verbs for their > > first conversation, so three-year-old children > > enter the phase of name-calling. > > > > Every day a new one arrives and is added > > to the repertoire. You Dumb Goopyhead, > > You Big Sewerface, You Poop-on-the-Floor > > (a kind of Navaho ring to that one) > > they yell from knee level, their little mugs > > flushed with challenge. > > Nothing Samuel Johnson would bother tossing out > > in a pub, but then the toddlers are not trying > > to devastate some fatuous Enlightenment hack. > > > > They are just tormenting their fellow squirts > > or going after the attention of the giants > > way up there with their cocktails and bad breath > > talking baritone nonsense to other giants, > > waiting to call them names after thanking > > them for the lovely party and hearing the door close. > > > > The mature save their hothead invective > > for things: an errant hammer, tire chains, > > or receding trains missed by seconds, > > though they know in their adult hearts, > > even as they threaten to banish Timmy to bed > > for his appalling behavior, > > that their bosses are Big Fatty Stupids, > > their wives are Dopey Dopeheads > > and that they themselves are Mr. Sillypants. > > > > www.bigsnap.com
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