Drum is Douwe Egberts roll your own tobacco here, Patrick, Tally Ho the
papers but I meant it to be also ‘Into the day ...’
It is telling I suppose, Doug. Can’t think how else to put it. Phones are
like that now too, must haves, before you leave the house.
Bill
On Wed, 8 May 2019 at 6:08 pm, Patrick McManus <
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> Hi Bill I did not get the refs to Drum and Tally ho -I read poem as
> someone comforted by rituals cheers
>
> On 07/05/2019 23:28, Bill Wootton wrote:
> > Could change the verbs in the opening couplet to past tense I suppose,
> > Doug. It is past. Did you have Drum tobacco and Tally Ho cigarette papers
> > in Canada?
> >
> > Bill
> >
> > On Wed, 8 May 2019 at 8:13 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Ah, is this an order, or merely the order you followed those 8 years,
> Bill?
> >>
> >> Because I don’t know the context in which they were necessary, I’m not
> >> sure I feel the pressure of the poem.
> >>
> >> Doug
> >>
> >>> On May 7, 2019, at 4:03 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
> >> wrote:
> >>> Never leave home,
> >>>
> >>> never walk out the door
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> without patting the pockets.
> >>>
> >>> Must hear the reassuring rattle
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> of little wood
> >>>
> >>> against little wood.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Red nubs forward,
> >>>
> >>> blacks back.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> A wallet’s handy,
> >>>
> >>> coins, keys
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> but without matches,
> >>>
> >>> you’re still undressed,
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> not ready
> >>>
> >>> to take on the world.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> For eight years,
> >>>
> >>> I lived like this,
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> conscripted
> >>>
> >>> to ignition,
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> following the Drum,
> >>>
> >>> Tally Ho ...
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> bw
> >> Douglas Barbour
> >> [log in to unmask]
> >> https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
> >>
> >> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations &
> Continuations
> >> 2 (UofAPress).
> >> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
> >> Listen. If (UofAPress):
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> >>
> >> Four or five couplets trying to dance
> >> into Persia. Who dances in Persia now?
> >>
> >> A magic carpet, a prayer mat, red.
> >> A knocked off head of somebody on her broken knees.
> >>
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