[John Whitworth]

Does anyone know what this means? It is the title of one of my poems in Girlie Gangs but I have completely forgotten what it means. It looks like an anagram.

[Jayne Osborn]

John,
I've just been to fetch the book and read the poem again to see if I can help you out...

Since the poem is based on anagrams of poets' names I'm pretty certain poets mar satanic cargo is an anagram of something; the trouble is, there are oodles of 'em for that phrase!

I've looked at an internet anagram site and quite like ''pragmatists earn cocoa" - but I'm sure that's not it

Try a search yourself and you might recognise what you meant when you first wrote it! Sorry I can't do any more without getting inside your head (now, there's an interesting place! )

Jayne

[John Whitworth]

If you could get inside my head, Jayne, you could give it a good sorting out. It's not an anagram, you know.

But if it were you could get orgasmic rant or an orgasmic rat out of it.

[Ann Drysdale]

Poets acrostic anagram?

[Ann Drysdale]

Or even "poets anagram acrostic"

[Ann Drysdale]

Or...?

Are you getting my drift?

[John Whitworth]

Yes that's what it is of course. Damn clever eh? Did you know or did you work it out? What a brain I had when I did that. Pity about orgasmic.

Thank you, Ann.

Was it a spectator competition?

[Jayne Osborn]

Duh, ...don't you feel a numpty when the solution was so obvious!!! Well done, Annie.

(Though I still think "pragmatists earn cocoa" has a nice ring to it.)

[John Whitworth]

And so do I, Jayne. Cocoa is the only drink for pragmatists. Idealists drink those horrid little coffees.