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Not Waving but Shopping
By Songster
05 February 2007

An answer to the nerds.
Another effort to make the font larger as people are complaining it's too small. Have I succeeded?


                                  

Virtual trolleys are easy to steer
when you go shopping the internet way,
shop without dropping for bargains all day.
Fortnum & Mason’s and Asda are here,
very expensive, or not very dear,
using your plastic it’s easy to pay.
Everyone finds what they want on eBay,
all sorts of gadgets and all kinds of gear.

Change is irrevocable, is it sad?
Many conflicting opinions abound.
While web technology makes many glad, 
some still loathe surfing and fear to be drowned;
finding the net irredeemably bad,
they like to shop with both feet on the ground.
   


                           

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Written by Talisker (1326 comments posted) 5th February 2007
No problem with the large print!  
 
Strange rhyming scheme. "Irrevocable" sticks out a bit for me, a bit jerky. 
 
Yes, OK if not particularly insightful. 
 
Oli :)

Written by Phil (6730 comments posted) 5th February 2007
Very visible.  
 
Neither the rhythmic nor rhyming scheme really work for me. It read a little clumsily. This may demonstrate my lack of poetic understanding: but why establish patterns of rhythm and rhyme if you're not going to stick to them? 
 
Not bad, not good, okay. Sorry. 
 
Phil. 
 

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