He is very skilful and void of pride;
He was so to me when at my bedside,
When I turned badly on the 25th of July,
And was ill with inflammation, and like to die.

He told me at once what was ailing me;
He said I had been writing too much poetry,
And from writing poetry I would have to refrain,
Because I was suffering from inflammation on the brain.

On Thursday, April 2, 2015 at 4:41:36 AM UTC+1, archytas wrote:
>
> And we have been moving from poetic to bureaucratic technology.  Allan's 
> poems are as bad as Scotland's greatest:
>
> They will one day yet rear him monuments of brass, and weep upon his grave,
> Though when he was living they would hardly have give him the price of a 
> shave;
> But his peerless, priceless “Poetic Gems” will settle once for all
> The claim to immortality of William McGonagall.
>
> Mine are worse.  I rarely like the stuff.  Yet we have to beat bureaucracy 
> with something!
>
> On Thursday, April 2, 2015 at 3:21:12 AM UTC+1, archytas wrote:
>>
>> Graffiti in the women's closet is rumoured worse than ours Don, but I 
>> haven't seen any decent stuff in ours for years (the beer in here reminds 
>> me of making love in the bottom of a punt - fucking close to water).  I 
>> always though poetry was what a poncey git used to get into women's 
>> knickers.
>>
>> On Thursday, April 2, 2015 at 1:21:47 AM UTC+1, Don Johnson wrote:
>>>
>>> I wasn't going to post here 'cause I don't write or particularly 
>>> subscribe to poetry in general. That is I don't seek it out and I don't buy 
>>> poetry books etc. I, of course, studied in school somewhat and learned to 
>>> appreciate it somewhat but also learned it's not really my thing. However, 
>>> while in seedy bars draining swill embibed in the pursuit of debauchery us 
>>> gentlemen are forced to read what passes for poetry in men's bathrooms, I 
>>> am quite certain, across the world. Since I have an international 
>>> readership here(impresses the chicks when I tell them this) I'd love to 
>>> know first, if girls have rude/bad poetry in their restrooms and if so 
>>> share please, and second, how badly are Americans trashed in foriegn 
>>> bathrooms? 
>>>
>>> Here's a little ditty from the 70's that's still in style. 
>>>
>>> Here I sit, gruntin' and strainin'
>>> Giving birth to another Iranian
>>> Mullah
>>>
>>> Of course, various Presidents over the years are trashed as well. Bush 
>>> got his fair share during his day. Apparently "bush" is an synonym for a 
>>> woman's vagina. Fun stuff, eh?
>>>
>>> dj
>>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 2:36 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Coffee offer is still open. (",)
>>>>
>>>> تجنب. القتل والاغتصاب واستعباد الآخرين
>>>> Avoid; murder, rape and enslavement of others
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: archytas <[email protected]>
>>>> To: [email protected]
>>>> Sent: Wed, 01 Apr 2015 9:22 AM
>>>> Subject: Mind's Eye Re: Poetry
>>>>
>>>> I was going to call you worse Allan - but then remembered the coffee 
>>>> offer!
>>>>
>>>> Portree lines of two
>>>> Cocaine addiction Scooby Do.
>>>>
>>>> On Wednesday, April 1, 2015 at 7:21:37 AM UTC+1, Allan Heretic wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Repeat to change  subject
>>>>>
>>>>> Have been called far worse.
>>>>> I actually  wrote out the rules years ago so I could write poetry. . 
>>>>> Also how to break them..  then it became easy.. never could figure  out 
>>>>> the 
>>>>> guidelines for other formats of poetry..  
>>>>> But it is both easy and fun to write.
>>>>>
>>>>> Poetry
>>>>> With lines of three
>>>>> Middle longer
>>>>>
>>>>> Bending
>>>>> To fit language 
>>>>> Needs
>>>>>
>>>>> Ideas
>>>>> Ever expanding
>>>>> Thoughts
>>>>>
>>>>> Minimum 
>>>>> One set of three
>>>>> Growing
>>>>>
>>>>> Occasionally
>>>>> Fourth  line added
>>>>> Emphasis 
>>>>>
>>>>> Variable 
>>>>> Fitting  mood 
>>>>> Variable
>>>>>
>>>>> تجنب. القتل والاغتصاب واستعباد الآخرين
>>>>> Avoid; murder, rape and enslavement of others
>>>>
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