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No, I don't, but thanks for: No, I don't, but thanks for asking.

Do you recall this song?: Stockings, they are just sheer stockings Can't forget those stockings Sheer stockings I love   Crying, I cannot stop crying Trying to forget those Sheer stockings I love   Stockings, love those sheer stockings Why'd you ever take them off? They really turn me on   Stockings, miss your sheer stockings I need your stockings  Need them in my life..  

I cannot define your style. : I cannot define your style.  I can applaud it (and I do); I praise it, admire it, envy it at times, study it closely when I read your poems, and I let its verbal power wash over me like a great and refreshing seabreeze.  But I cannot say what exactly it is.  So if you have a name for it, or if it follows a particular pattern or school of verse styles, please tell me.  But . . . more than anything else I might request here . . . please do not change it.

If I had the academic: If I had the academic qualifications to teach Poetry on an undergrad level---I mean, to teach the practical composition of Poetry (rather than simply doing readings of ancient Poets and such)---I would want to use your texts as examples; yours, and the work of one other Poet on this site, as the primary ways a young, aspiring poet should approach the craft.

Excellent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!: Excellent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It is a great thing to have: It is a great thing to have grandchildren.  My wife and I parented a blendid family (three children from our previous marriages), and they have now blessed us with seven grandchildren.  But . . . when the two great-grandchildren arrived, just a couple of years ago, we began to feel old.  We thought of ourselves as young grandparents, but "young great grandparents" seems to be a contradiction in terms.  

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