--- FRIEDA2133 at aol.com wrote: > 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. Ow. My head hurts. "Poésie concrète" was big in (the thirties??). This could be an example. Seventeen. Steve, whether you meant this one or not, you're stuck with it. Seventeen. Seve t + n een Neen steve? Nene, Steve? A nene is a species of Hawaiian goose, beloved of crossword puzzle writers. Neener-neener-neener! -- Mark A. Mandel http://cracksandshards.com a Steven Brust Dragaera fan website [This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.] __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 250MB free storage. Do more. Manage less. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250