Sunday, September 20, 2009

Puff's Happy Ending

I used to cry over the ending of the song "Puff, the Magic Dragon", feeling sad for Pull to be alone, w/o his friend. So I wrote this ending, and now when I hear the song, I think of my verse, and am no longer sad.

Puff's Happy Ending
copyright 1983 Patricia M. Shannon

If Puff could see the future, he would not be so sad;
for Jackie soon will marry, and have a little lad.
He will tell his son why his own youth was not a bore,
then Puff the magic dragon, will have a friend once more.
Posted by Patricia at 10:35 PM
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9 comments:

John V said...

John V here.

Thanks for the discussion. While I wasn't being mean or posting in bad faith, Dr. Thoma tends to delete my posts and I tried several times to wrap things up because I need to stop for now but my last few posts are not appearing.

Just wanted to let you know.

John V

4:59 PM
Patricia said...

Several of my posts didn't appear. It might have been a typepad problem.

5:22 PM
John V said...

I think it's Thoma.

I tried many times. He's done it before.

A little harsh, IMO. I can understand deleting rude comments. But that isn't the case with me.

5:24 PM
Patricia said...

Try clicking "post another comment" after posting. That's what I had to do to get one of my to appear. I don't know why it is occasionally necessary.

5:45 PM
John V said...

Well,

I just to tried to post again and it worked.

Don't know if Thoma will delete it.

12:06 AM
John V said...

But anyway,

at the risk of further deletion from EV, I'll just say this here:

People there need to be a little nicer to others who dare approach issues from a different point of view.

Being labeled a conservative (which I am most certainly not) at the first whiff of some conservative sounding statement and then being addressed with all the presuppositions of some conservative boogey-man caricature is not what I'm looking for or deserve.

peace

12:12 AM
Patricia said...

If your post doesn't show up on Dr. Thoma's blog, it doesn't mean it was deleted. Sometimes something about it maked typepad suspect it was spam, and it gets routed to his spam box. He has a job, so is not constantly checking his spam box, so sometimes it takes awhile for this to get corrected.
It happens to all of us, I assure you.

1:05 PM
Patricia said...

In fact, I was having the same problem at the same time you were, and finally got it to post by using the "next comment" button, after posting. Spamming programs are obviously programmed to activate the "post" button. There are occasional obvious spam comments. The give-a-way is that they are comments to old posts, and are for commercial web sites, usually with some connection to the subject of the post. In one case, I clicked on the link and my firewall blocked the site; it wasn't just spam, it was malicious.

1:19 PM
Patricia said...

John V
If you start out on a blog making the kinds of comments that are typical of a particular group of people, you will naturally be judged to be of that group. If your continued discourse proves that first impression wrong, the people on Professor Thoma's blog will change their opinion.

5:29 PM

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