EDNOTE. A FEW DAYS AGO Jansy Berndt de Souza Mello took e-mail
exception to what she thought an unduly personal reference to Carolyn
Kunin in a posting from Dmitri Nabokov. The latter responded with a poem.
Jansy responds in a verse of her own. I propose an amnesty on the occasion of
VN's birthday.
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Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 7:35 AM
Subject: there are so many things...
DMITRI NABOKOV POEM FOR
JANSY
There is an Enforcer named Jansy
who can't
comprehend fun or fancy.
She won't fail to protest
the most innocent
jest
if its theme makes her feel antsy-pantsy.
There was
no abuse of friend CK's e-mail handle, since she herself has unflinchingly
mentioned both chicken and chair online.
DN
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JANSY REPLIES: Here is my answer to Dmitri´s
animadverses
Handy Pandy, Jack-a-dandy
antsy-pantsy in sugar
candy
when we pluck a pen off fancy
to strike S from cosmic
pie
it still splatters in our platters
it still risks giving
offency
when we´re dealing aye to I.
Jansy