SEELANGS Digest - 16 Oct 2009 to 17 Oct 2009 (#2009-23)
STEPHEN PEARL
sbpearl1 at VERIZON.NET
Sun Oct 18 14:50:17 UTC 2009
I may have missed something, but if brevity is th
SHORT RUSSIAN POEMS.
I may have missed something, but if brevity is the order of the day, I can't imagine how that masterpiece of Ogden-Nashian brevity - if not wit - could have got lost in the wash. To wit:
"Eto on, eto on,
Leningradskiy pochtalyon!"
PS. In the hope of pre-empting an avalanche of learned dissent, I should add that if it turns out that this was just the opening line[s] of a longer poem, this was all I was ever taught.
Stephen Pearl
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