Jim: Me, too. I wrote my bear poem as a gift to one of my daughters, then showed it to Tim because, well, because he seemed likely to take delight in it. Of course, he had already written many fine joke poems of his own. But all the way through this project, it seems to me, delight has been the driving force and delight has been the consistent result. To paraphrase Frost: "No delight in the writer, no delight in the reader." Whatever comes of this project, we (all the contributors) have already been repaid handsomely.
Life can be grim. We owe ourselves and others a little something to leaven the gravity of things.
RPW
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