[CLAP] [CLAP] [CLAP] [CLAP] [CLAP] [CLAP] Masterful! Excellent! Ought to save that and include it with photos you might post of the event afterward! ;-) Ted > > (This one is a parody of Cesar Vallejo's Black Stone on a White Stone > - > which begins with "I will die in Paris when it rains." Of all these > RSVP > poetry parodies, this one's original source was the most gloomy and > difficult to work with. I looked at a few translations, then looked > over the > shoulders of the translators to the original in Spanish.) > > > > I will harvest habaneros, on a rainy day > as on a day I already remember. > I will harvest habs - and I don't run away - > perhaps on a weekend in the close of September. > > It will be a weekend, because this weekend, writing > these lines, my insides burn in disarray > and never in my life have the penalties of biting > too many habs been as clear, as today. > > El Grande has passed; he has been consumed > by those to whom he intended no harm. > to sauces and powders, forever he's doomed > once I have harvested, down on the farm, > witnessed by the weekend, and by the rain, > and the long road I travel to gather this pain. > > - A > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. > http://www.hotmail.com > ===== lat: 39.74673, lon: -86.33115 Signal Corps: -- http://www.civilwarsignal.org/ USMT -- http://www.unitedstatesmilitarytelegraph.org "The objective of the fighting army is to obtain good ground; it is also the objective of every telegrapher." __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com