Poetry donnybrook

Harrison Owen owenhh at mindspring.com
Thu Apr 3 15:12:20 PST 2003


At 09:10 AM 4/3/2003 -0500, Ralph Copleman wrote:
>(I do, however, propose another new rule based on Harrison's poem.  Any
>entry, I should think, needs to have more than 50% of its content come from
>the submitting poet, not Rene Descartes.  (I mean, if HO wins, who gets the
>prize?  Does he have to share it with the dead guy?  Or what?  I think this
>rule should also apply to Otto von Bismarck, whom I believe is also dead,
>although more recently, and several other people, too.)

Ralph -- you are wonderful person, and thanks for coming to my defence. but
you can't count. There are 13 words in my poem. I figure 5 may be directly
attributed to good old Rene. That leaves me with 8 all on my own.
Considerably better than 50%!!!!

Harrison


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