Subject: Table-Links & Broken Lines
From: Christopher W. Thomas (creatician@poetic.com)
Host: dnb-as1s08.erols.com
Date: Sun Jan 11, 1998 at 10:19AM

Finally finished adding table-links to thirty pages of my work

All along discovered broken lines from uploads past - it hurt!
But unnecessary complications seem to be part of the deal
Something I'll just have to get used to, unless I chose to peel

Away material deemed offensive by some, altho I'm not sure
But I suspect this is the case, and so I'll have to be more pure
Although my thoughts are in regard to all things other than sex
But considering the rosy picture I paint with it all, it's a small vex

Perhaps I should just build another web site adjacent to this one
And then funnel all of the erotica into it - then I'd really have fun
But maybe just a separate page clearly labeled in a way to show
It's filled with just lovely pieces which relay scenes of love to blow

- Away the drearies, which sometimes has quite a nice, cosy effect
When someone stumbles upon it unsuspectingly and then elects
To read more of the work, looking for other pieces which sizzle
But finds, as they go through other pages, messages which tinkle

With the things inside their heads which clearly make them rethink
Things they may be doing from day-to-day to keep them on the brink
And if this is the power embedded and contained in the written word
Then I think it would be better if all of it were left as is, and thus heard

Mixed in with the passion, sex, words of love and so much tenderness
For messages which last will tend to stick if they blend well in the mess
So I think I shall thank those who have reflected their thoughts on taste
And after some consideration, and two minor adjustments made in haste

I believe I shall put them back in the near future into some other place
Where they might be needed in order to spice up some other boring trace
Of a line of messages about a wholesome life that never was lived chaste
And, certainly, there are many other facets of it which will not go to waste ...

- Tristram

Christopher W. Thomas
10:20am Sunday 1/11/98