Tessa Ransford OBE, Hon.DUniv (Paisley), MA, Dip Ed Poetry Practitioner and Adviser 31 Royal Park Terrace, Edinburgh EH8 8JA, Scotland, U.K. Tel : 0131 661 1277 E-mail : wisdomfield@talk21.com

Counting Those who count         can count and those who don’t count         don’t Now the counters want to invent a way of counting what can’t be counted The counters need counters to account for the uncountable It gets them back to square one Meanwhile those who don’t count don’t count on it They count themselves lucky There’s nothing to it really