Flea Lit

[Paul DiFilippo]

Many thanks to those who supplemented my failing neurons with
the skinny on Donne's "The Flea", esp. davemarc with complete
text!  Seems like a poem whose bold conceit could not fail
to appeal to someone of TRP's wit.  And it's also disproof
of Melville's (apocryphal?) assertion that "No great work may 
be composed upon the life of a flea."

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Paul Di Filippo & Deborah Newton/2 Poplar St./Prov., RI 02906
"So far as the interests of the capitalist go it does not matter
whether he invests his money at home or abroad; it does not matter
whether his goods are manufactured in London or Timbuctoo." HG Wells