[New-Poetry] from Alan Sondheim:

[David Bircumshaw]

> A meter is the distance travelled by light in absolute vacuum in
> 1/299,792,458 of a second.
>
> that's a light meter
>

Naow, it's not. It's a >metre< you're talking about.

Nyah, nyah, niyah. Gotcha!!

Wink

Dave


----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Day" <rog3r.day at gmail.com>
To: "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &amp,Views"
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Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 10:08 AM
Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] from Alan Sondheim:


> A meter is the distance travelled by light in absolute vacuum in
> 1/299,792,458 of a second.
>
> that's a light meter
>
>
> On 9/6/06, Halvard Johnson <halvard at earthlink.net> wrote:
> >
> > Here's the secret of meter, Anny:  When the flag is
> > down, you're paying. When it's up, you're not.
> >
> > Hal
> >
> >
> > "I have the feeling that we are getting
> >  nowhere, and that is a pleasure."
> >  --John Cage
> >
> > Halvard Johnson
> > ================
> > halvard at gmail.com
> > halvard at earthlink.net
> > http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard
> > http://entropyandme.blogspot.com
> > http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.comhttp://www.hamiltonstone.org
> >
> >
> > On Sep 6, 2006, at 5:13 PM, Anny Ballardini wrote:
> >
> >
> > Ah Hal,
> > your mail you could not be more appropriate in this moment for me. There
is
> > no _(no_ _no)_ way I can understand English meter.  I am willing to
break my
> > abstinence from medicines if there is 1 that can help me.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Halvard Johnson
> > To: NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &amp;Views
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 10:10 PM
> > Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] from Alan Sondheim:
> >
> > Isn't the meter off just a bit in line 17?
> >
> >
> > Hal
> >
> >
> >
> > Serving the tristate area.
> >
> >
> > Halvard Johnson
> > ================
> > halvard at gmail.com
> > halvard at earthlink.net
> > http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard
> > http://entropyandme.blogspot.com
> > http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.comhttp://www.hamiltonstone.org
> >
> >
> >
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