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Between beginning and end
is the middle
inflamed with words,
muddle and piddle
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HOODA HELAMI
Alter Ego #142857
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I am a Modern Literature professor at Princeton University
ReplyDeletewho teaches a Saturday class based on the poetry
of your Alter Ego, Hooda Helami.
My students and their teacher enjoy every minute
of our elective class but the majority of us take issue
with the third word of the title above:
"Beginning" has one n too many.
We'd prefer it to to be spelt b-e-g-i-n--i-n-g
because otherwise, it sounds like
Big Inning and relates to
another baseball story.
Mr. Oliverio agrees with you about that third n
Deletebut feels compelled to quote [or paraphrase]
F. Scott Fitzgerald:
Baseball does not always require
a bat and a ball to play the game.
Sometimes, all you need is
a simile and a metaphor