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From: don@allegra.UUCP (D. Mitchell)
Newsgroups: net.poems
Subject: Safe in the Suburbs
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Date: Wed, 1-Feb-84 22:36:04 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb  1 22:36:04 1984
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One of the formal styles of Chinese poetry consists of four lines.  The
first introduces a topic, the second elaborates on it, the third introduces
a new topic, and the fourth ties the two topics together.


			Safe in the Suburbs

	Some people are frightened of old Greenwich Village,
	where faggots and artists and Bolsheviks pillage.
	My neighbors cut grass and rake the Fall spillage,
	but perverts don't go for monotonous tillage.

				-- Don. P. Mitchell