Steve Hubbell wrote on Thu, 23 Dec 2004 15:49:53 +0000 >http://www.forteanbureau.com/april2004/brust.html In response, Scott Schultz wrote Thu, 23 Dec 2004 07:59:39 -0800 >Well, now we know how to serve him up when he discorporates. Interesting to >see an author define himself in terms of food. Hi, http://www.forteanbureau.com/april2004.html This page explains that http://www.forteanbureau.com/april2004/brust.html is supposed to be a grocery list. There are several other "grocery lists" of several other authors listed on that page. Which does not mean what Scott said is not true. Is it a grocery list or not? To: Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoepist, and Philological Busybody a.k.a. Mark A. Mandel Mark, I started counting again. http://www.forteanbureau.com/april2004/brust.html is 17 lines long, if you count the line "The End" . Mark, does http://www.forteanbureau.com/april2004/brust.html match any specific poetry criteria that you know of? It has too many lines to be a tanka or haiku. The Aol dictionary says there is "concrete poetry". Definition: "poetry in which the poet's intent is conveyed by the graphic patterns of letters, words, or symbols rather than by the conventional arrangement of words" If you trace on the outside of each line of text in the "grocery list", you could have a drawing of an onion with part of the stalk still attached. Garlic would also have a stalk, but I would think the lines would have to be longer at the bottom. What do you think, Mark? Bye. Linda G.