[Vision2020] There Once Was a Sailor Named . . .

[Tom Hansen]

Greetings Visionaires -

Seeing how Dale Courtney has suggestively thrown down the proverbial (and,
may I say, quasi-poetic) gauntlet by posting his "A Poem for the
Intoleristas", it would only be fair that we accept his challenge, here in
Moscow, the Heart of the Arts.

A friend on the Viz was kind enough to provide the first stanza of what,
although currently in its mere infancy, may become an off-off-off-Broadway
play.

So, without further hesitation, I present the first stanza, of hopefully
many more to come, of "There Once Was a Sailor Named Dale":

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"There once was a sailor named Dale
Who fomented religious gales
When his rigging it seems, broke loose of the beams
The crossed bowsprit jammed up his tales."

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Now, I KNOW there are many poets and poet-wannabes in this world of the Viz.
Feel free to contribute more and more stanzas, so that when this poem
evolves into the aforementioned off-off-off-Broadway play "There Once Was a
Sailor Named Dale" (starring Peewee Herman in the lead role), you can say
(between chuckles), "It all started back in Moscow.  Thank you, Dale,
whatever you are."

Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students. The college
students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."

- Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)

-----Original Message-----
From: david sarff [mailto:davesway at hotmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 10:45 AM
To: thansen at moscow.com
Subject: an off list poem

How does this work?



There once was a sailor named Dale
Who fomented religious gales
When his rigging it seems, broke loose of the beams
The crossed bowsprit jammed up his tales

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