Digest urth.v030.n074

akt · 01 Mar 2001, 01:00 · from urth-v0030.mbox · original

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Subject: (urth) Re: Digest urth.v030.n074
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 01:00:18
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Caroled mantis, responding to Ranjit:
>
> >Maybe they're off to see the Shrike, the wonderful Shrike of
Hyperion.
>
> "We're off to see the Shrike,
> the Wonderful Shrike of Hyperion!
> It really is a spike of a shrike,
> The Wonderful Shrike of Hyperion!
>
> If ever a swindlous spindle there hikes,
> Or time warp respites,
> Or sado delights,
> It's all because, because, because, because!
> Because of the wonderful beings it spikes!"
>

I could while away the hours
Conferring with the flowers
And tightnin' every screw.
While my head I'm mostly scratchin'
While I wish my thoughts were hatchin'
If I only had a clue!

I'd unravel every riddle
For any individdle
In the pink or in the blue
With my musings most errantic
I could wax a trifle mantic
If I only had a clue!

Oh I could tell you why
Blue and Green are in convergence
I could tell you Pig's emergence
And some Christian effervescence.

I would not be just a nothin'
My head all full of stuffin'
My heart all full of pain
I would laugh and I'd be merry
Life would be a dinglederry
If I only had a clue.

-alga

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