[Roger Slater]

The Betrayal of Benedict Arnold

Benedict Arnold is
known as traitor but
I always thought that he
wasn’t that bad.

Treated quite shabbily
after his bravery
rescued America,
Arnold went mad.

Puritan-purity,
USA founders thought
people should worship
however they choose,

provided they're Protestants;
Thomas Paine's common sense
didn't extend to the
papists or Jews.

[Patricia A. Marsh]

Dactylic downbeat, a
Lawrence Welk waltz and a
"One-un-a-two-uh", 'tis
Frying your brain?

Try not to stop the a-
Ccordian player from
Tapping a toe or he'll
Know you're insane!

;-}

[Jerry Glenn Hartwig]

Protestant-schmotestant
RosaRugosa gal
back on your soapbox
I see you again.

Isn't there anything
that you don't gripe about?
All of that beer must have
softened your brain.

*grin*

[Shekhar Aiyar]

Screamingly-laughingly
Reading these sassy Ho-
Meric compressions I've
Captively sat.

Eratospherians:
Let me acknowledge your
Wordplay and wit with a
Tip of my hat.

Jerry Glenn Hartwig, you
follow my postings just
looking for something to
argue about.

Why so contrary? It
must be because my I
D is dactylic you
single me out.

Anyway, I've got to
stop writing dactyls be-
fore it becomes an ob-
sessive compulsion,

or all this bantering
leads to my Eratos-
pherian involun-
tary expulsion!





[This message has been edited by RosaRugosa (edited January 14, 2003).]

[Jerry Glenn Hartwig]

Very contrary?
RosaRugosa I
feel only pity for
you and your plight

stuck in a boring job
nothing to do all day
seems like you'd want me to
pick a good fight

[Jerry Glenn Hartwig]

Banished-or-vanished from
our dear Eratosphere?
This is what FunEx was
created for.

As for the monitors
tracking our progress here
they've got their pencils out
keeping the score.

[Jerry Glenn Hartwig]

Peepishly-sheepishly
RosaRugosa I'm
merely attracted to
women with wit.

and all the women I've
met in my city who've
tried to write poems wrote
nothing but garbage.

[This message has been edited by Jerry Glenn Hartwig (edited January 14, 2003).]

Witty-with-pity, your
tweaking is wreaking
sheer havoc with my
resolution to shut
up.

But I must get back to
work, though it's dull, and
and I'd rather have fun
trading verse with a cut-
up.