>Not as ambitious as Dom's or Allison's, but my unemployment benefits are
>about to run out:
>
>Financial Analysis
>
>
>It seems I have the kind of tic
>That busied Sigmund Freud,
>For once again I've bought a house,
>Then joined the unemployed.
>
>He'd claim these walls that shelter me
>Must mean my Mother's womb
> From which my Father's banned by Death,
>That I'm her guilty groom.
>
>But I'm not blind -- no matter how
>Engrossingly complex,
>Self-knowledge is no substitute
>For earning steady checks.
That you can laugh, & conjure a laugh from this is a good sign, Michael.
Good luck in the search & all....
Doug
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
(h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
I can always
go back to
fertilization,
kimonos, wrap-
arounds and
diatribes.
Lorine Niedecker
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