[Newspoetry] Well-known Wordsmith/Newspoet Suffers Momentary Lapse in Judgment, Drops Ball, Uses Awkward Expression in Subject Line

John Wason jwason at prairienet.org
Fri Dec 7 18:52:39 CST 2001


>From: gillespie william k <gillespi at uiuc.edu>
>To: <newspoetry at lists.groogroo.com>
>Subject: [Newspoetry] Boulez woken up for comment made in 1960s
>Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 14:30:47 -0600 (CST)


WillGill, in Urbana-Champaign,
Lost his linguistic legerdemain.
With wits uncollected, 
"Woken up" he selected,
When "awakened" was better, 'tis plain!




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