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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: The poem at 3 a.m. / gjd
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2025 00:57:55 +0000
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Victor H. wrote:

> George J. Dance wrote:
>
>> On 2022-06-15 4:35 p.m., General-Zod wrote:
>>> George J. Dance wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The poem at 3 a.m.
>>>
>>>> The poem at 3 a.m.
>>>> does not want to be written;
>>>> it visits only to mock you.
>>>
>>>> - gjd
>>>
>>> Quite a good short poem.....
>
>> Thanks. It needs a bump, though; so let me tell you what I'm starting
>> off here. I got the idea after I was trolled into posting "Usenet's
>> Greatest Poet" on aapc, and it ended up on the front page there for
>> weeks.
>
>> Now that I was posting poetry again, I had to find some to post. I
>> top-posted a couple of limericks (which have also been bumping on and
>> off the front page). By then I'd remembered the "April" section of
>> /Doggerel/, full of similar satires. None of it can be read at present,
>> and here's a way to introduce it to people who haven't read it or have
>> forgotten it.
>
>> This is the first poem in "April" (following the title tercet). It isn't
>> a satire on anyone, but it's about writing and its difficulty, so it
>> belonged in the "poetry" section. (April's National Poetry Month in our
>> two countries, but you probably knew that).
>
>
>
> Once more quite good...

Agreed.