From dalton@concentric.net Mon Jan 29 11:52:02 2001
Date: 01 Mar 2000 22:57:42 EST
From: Leigh D. Butler <dalton@concentric.net>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan
Subject: Re: TAN: Poetry (was Re: TAN: Robes, recklessly thrown open.)

Apropos of nothing, Jeff Huo wrote:

<snip>
> So how about everyone else? What poems ring a chord with all 
> of you?

Here's one I always liked:

"For want of a nail
The shoe was lost;

For want of a shoe
The horse was lost;

For want of a horse
The rider was lost;

For want of a rider
The message was lost;

For want of a message
The battle was lost;

For want of a battle
The war was lost;

For want of a war
The kingdom was lost;

And all for the want
Of a horseshoe nail."

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And here's one I got a while back on email:

        <>!*"#
        ^"`$$-
        !*=@$_
        %*<>~#4
        &[]../
        |{,,SYSTEM HALTED

The poem can only be appreciated by reading it aloud, to wit:

        Waka waka bang splat tick tick hash,
        Caret quote back-tick dollar dollar dash,
        Bang splat equal at dollar under-score,
        Percent splat waka waka tilde number four,
        Ampersand bracket bracket dot dot slash,
        Vertical-bar curly-bracket comma comma CRASH.

-- 
Leigh Butler     dalton@concentric.net
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