Thanxs Mani,
The trimming is nice...the "s" sound of Slips and Slices creates 
alliteration. I like that.


--- In [email protected], M Suri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Farah, I like that one. However, with a little judicious 
cutting...ummm, slicing and splicing(?)...you might have this:
>  
> TONGUES
> 
> A gossip's tongue is a two-edged blade,
> a sharp and slippery eel;
> Whatever way you hold it
> It slips and slices.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Mani
> 
> Farah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I tried rather hard to come up with some fish poem like the cool 
ones 
> posted by others...but could not. So i am putting up one that I 
wrote 
> some time ago...
> 
>   TONGUES
> 
> A gossiper's tongue, like a two-edged blade,
> Is sharp and is slippery as an eel,
> So whatever way you may hold it,
> It either cuts or slips.
> 
> Farah (1999)
> 
> 
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