http://www.abctales.com/alp/spread

For some reason, this feels like it should be a Monty Python song!

'Filthy wretch' seems a bit harsh, but I can see it's necessary for the rhyme... otherwise...

Nice one, alp!

"P"

You know haiku is 5:7:5 syllables?

Anyone know if there is a form of poetry that is 2:2:2?

Just wondering, like...

"P"

Anyone been watching the C4 series 'Lost'.

This really is not my kind of thing but it's well written and well researched - I detect the writer must have been a submariner:

http://www.abctales.com/swaffhammark/dolphin_down

If you are into naval stuff then you will enjoy this.

is this any good? i want to email to friend for whom it is written but in these circs it is important not to make a bigger ar** of oneself than is strictly necessary.I really dont know. i nerver know until things have matured. is it a decent enough vintage or an overripe Gorgonzola?

To start writing using a name affiliated with one of the most inventive and intelligent songwriters of our, or indeed, any time (and my personal favorite) is a bold move, but for me with this poem you've nailed it.

I've liked much of your work to date, and the improvement from piece to piece is dramatic - but this is the one that's really done it for me.

Love this middle passage:

"insomniac masturbation
a cure all for the
nocturnally challenged
only drains me of
any life that remained"

I'll have that rattling round my head all day.