Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.58.0403301636520.10260@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>,
"WRYTING-L : Writing and Theory across Disciplines" <WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject: sonnet in the modern manner
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 16:37:01 -0500 (EST)
sonnet in the modern manner my mother appears. she's thirty, we're talking she tells me my father is going to have chemotherapy 'as a preventive measure.' i say this is non- sense, there's nothing wrong with him, he's 90, he doesn't need anything, it's too crippling. we're arguing like crazy, i'm crying. he's right behind you, she says, i turn, he's napping lightly on the couch. i'm almost hysterical now. it worked for me, she says. she's dead, the phone rings. the homeopathic chinese herbs for the cat will cost forty cents per pill, eighty cents a day. i don't believe in homeopathy. i've got enough trouble. there are nazis after me, mutilated bodies. as jesus christ, i would give my right hand to save all of mankind. i would give my right hand as well and my other limbs. i would permit photography of the BLOODY STUMP. as jesus christ i would absolutely do this. letters may be trans- posed, substituted, enumerated, shifted, markov-chained, filtered, written or rewritten according to any function. finite differences welcomed. _