Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 23:07:56 EDT From: it's the jetsons! Subject: EXERCISE: a poem...(was: Re: WOW: using the language actively) On Tue, 22 Jul 1997 13:04:23 EDT, Judy Ray punched the old puppet into slipping his strings with her remark: :) I haven't read a poem yet that uses celluar :) phones, for example, or space stations as a metaphor for :) anything. Oho! A poem that uses cellular phones...for examples? or space stations as a metaphor...for anything? well, you get the drift (the solar flux? Van Allen, can you hear me? and then there are the cellular cells, invisibly dividing the world, with secret handoffs as you cruise from one cell to the next...) take one (or more) cellular phones add space stations (Mir?) mix well, with poetic vigor eh, viola? c'est manic! [yeah, that's right. put a cell phone in your lines, maybe some electronic beeping, orbit a little space station around your center of gravity, and write us a poesy.] tink ------- End of Forwarded Message