Not realizing the futility of her efforts (after all, once your opponent cites memory loss as one of their major attributes, how far are you going to get?) our heroic poet has taken another stab at setting the record straight, in this well-written letter:
Dear Curmudgeon High Council,
Please send a list of the Apprentice Curmudgeons so that I might honor your request to forward to them (all ten?) an advance copy of Curmudgeons at Court for their perusal.
Also, I am awaiting your permission to forward to them your praise-worthy (and praise-full) response to my submission of said poem as I am unsure about possible confidentiality issues due to your exalted position as Supreme Representative of The High Council of Curmudgeons.
With your approval to send the poem, do you also wish that I include both your refutation to and my defense of the observation I offer in verses about the sentimental glue between and among your infamous band? Perhaps the wiser option might be to have all such correspondence come directly from on-high? I am, after all, loathe to contravene any Curmudgeon rules.
On the matter of my debating skills with regard to our — yours and my — disagreement about my perspective and your rebuttal revelation about the ’true’ attitudinal reactions between battling Curmudgeons concerning their wins and losses, I appreciate your kind comments.
While you and I might continue to debate the issue, you need not concern yourself with my utter dismay at your revelation that Curmudgeon husbands purposely misrepresent to their spouse(s) the true nature of their group’s attitudes toward wins and losses. Though I am crestfallen, fear not that it might require any intervention from The High Council of Curmudgeons! I assure you that I will address the inconsistency in the household privacy, which it merits. (Still, be advised that I do not wish to alter my verses in order to include a perspective currently not my own; for now, I’ll let the ‘truth’ you insist upon remain in manly territory of which I am ignorant, and may wish to remain so!)
Yours sincerely and with all due respect,
W1
The Curmudgeon Quarterly 