Beccy: a poem about words

I loved the apostle poems! What a fun idea. Our primary children would appreciate those!

Here's one that you all will enjoy, being fellow-word lovers :) This poet has written some pretty clever poems (one I read in college was called "You Can't Write a Poem about McDonalds" but I can't find a copy of it.)

The Student Theme
Ronald Wallace

The adjectives all ganged up on the nouns,
insistent, loud, demanding, inexact,
their Latinate constructions flashing. The pronouns
lost their referents: They were dangling, lacked
the stamina to follow the prepositions' lead
in, on, into, to, toward, for, or from.
They were beset by passive voices and dead
metaphors, conjunctions shouting But! or And!

The active verbs were all routinely modified
by adverbs, that endlessly and colorlessly ran
into trouble with the participles sitting
on the margins knitting their brows like gerunds
(dangling was their problem, too). The author
was nowhere to be seen; was off somewhere.

Rae, I felt the same--that conference was especially marvelous. Sister Tanner is married to John Tanner at BYU, too. Did you know Elaine Dalton is a marathon runner?

Does anyone know what happened to Craig Jessop? I think it's really srange that he just disappeared. Usually the Church will recognize their service and "retirement" and at least thank them for their work. Troy said he heard at BYU from someone in the choir that Brother Jessop "quit."

I just finished A Thousand Splendid Suns, and would love to discuss that one--has anyone else read it besides Rae and I? If so, what do you think?

I'm reading Peak by Roland Smith for April, at Curt's request. :)