Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site allegra.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!eagle!allegra!don From: don@allegra.UUCP (D. Mitchell) Newsgroups: net.poems Subject: Safe in the Suburbs Message-ID: <2250@allegra.UUCP> Date: Wed, 1-Feb-84 22:36:04 EST Article-I.D.: allegra.2250 Posted: Wed Feb 1 22:36:04 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 7-Feb-84 14:44:27 EST Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 13 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