Andrew, Clive and Michael,
Thank you for the unexpected and terrific poems.
Andrew, how refreshing to read someone giving stick to Dante who was such a judgemental character.
Clive,
Anyone who knows Hardy's novels kknows that he used the banana skin of black humour to destroy buoyant and optimistic characters. "In the Cenetery" is near to "They're Removing Grandpa's Grave to Build a Sewer" made famous by Peter Sellers. And "The Ruined Maid" is wonderfully ironical. It's very cruel of you to have removed the targets' names from the Pain poems.
Michael,
The Plomer is a hoot. Vegetarian bliss. Actually vegetarians eat splendidly now that the nut cutlet is banished and Asia has filled the gap. What a mighty raspberry of a joke.
Janet
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