[New-Poetry] Function of the Human Appendix

[Anny Ballardini]

Poor Finnegan, still in the hundreds, this made me smile.

  From: JforJames at aol.com 
  Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007 7:02 PM


  Has anyone seen a poem in which the appendix is featured?
  Poems have been written 'about' almost everything under the sun,
  but I don't recall seeing the great 'appendix poem'. I once had
  an idea of assembling an anthology called Ten Thousand Things
  (after the Chinese notion that the universe was comprised of
  10,000 things). I gave up when I still in the hundreds.
  Finnegan

  In a message dated 1/7/2007 12:48:05 PM Eastern Standard Time, cervantes.james at gmail.com writes:
    Since "the appendix is used to re-create a 'sphincter muscle," culd we
    claim that the appendix, unlike poetry, has a social function?

    - Jim

    On 1/7/07, Linda Sue Grimes <suelin7184 at gmail.com> wrote:
    >
    >
    > Addressing the claim that the human appendix has no function.
    >
    >  Loren G. Martin, professor of physiology at Oklahoma State University on
    > ScientificAmerican.com:  "What is the function of the human appendix?"
    > http://www.sciam.com/askexpert_question.cfm?articleID=000CAE56-7201-1C71-9EB7809EC588F2D7




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