prelude http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_/Prelude.html 3. introductory event or occurrence: an event or action that introduces or precedes something else, especially something longer and more important. 040629 ... Finger Mesopotamia_Question 040629 ... Moon = ? 040629 ... What_Saddam_said Say_hello_to_everyone 040629 ... Death of a Rose Like desperate guerrillas wave after wave of white mice storm the beach and disappear among the stones and pebbles The weaker ones retreat in confusion bissing their bad luck, the steepness At a distance a reminder of yesterday's oil slick glowers at me like a swastika; nudged by a used condom it elongates into the grim shadow of a puritan and backs away A swimming girl laughingly tosses the floating rubber on the back of a white mouse scampering towards the shore She straigthens herself in the water and pulls up the wave at her feet like a turquoise slip Coming towards me she holds her breasts as it they werew brown puppies 130524 what's it to you? who go blather from