Goad13 Jan 2004

Thank you, honourable Feline. I approached the crafting of this pome as I approach every task in life, however mundane: with a) careful precision; b) rigorous determination; and c) a keen yearning to excel, to make an orderly difference in this chaotic world. That I have succeeded in some small part in this instance certainly brings me a modicum of pleasure. No, that is unfair. I ought rather to say it brings me BOUNTIFUL pleasure, a pleasure that beats in my breast like the joyful drumming of the wings of a partridge, startled into joyous flight from its secluded clearing (where it sedately fed on the winter berries) by the advent of the forest caretaker. I will close now, lest I display emotion inappropriate for this forum.