Hi Chris,
Well, clairvoyance it must have been. Welcome to my site any time.
The poem I posted is pretty ready now. But where/how it sits in the
longer thing I'm writing, not so sure. It's taken some time to work
that out. But glad you liked it.
1978 seems so far away - yet so close, given the rhetoric we've had to
put up with from our big landlord Johnny in the past few days.
Best,
Jill
On Monday, December 2, 2002, at 04:59 PM, Chris Jones wrote:
> Hi Jill,
>
> Funny, this morning before writing, before checking emails, I was
> thinking of yr poems, saying I should re-visit yr website as I wished
> to
> read some. Is this clairvoyance? There was a poem already in the email
> server and it would be good to see it finished (if I can say that
> without implying you should rush and risk a botchup... as I like it too
> much for that.)
>
> Am beginning to feel overtired and overpushed, myself, and need a break
> before I collapse in a heap and do some damage. I use to live in
> Station
> Street when it was a real slum complete with slum landlord, if you can
> call it living, actually hiding from the cops after having to leave my
> last place of residence after the events of 78 when I was woken each
> morning at four or five for warrants for my arrest for crimes I was
> said
> to have committed when I was six years old with the cops yeling and
> banging on the door; get out of bed you commie poofter, get out of bed
> you pinko fairy and so forth. In Station Street for a couple of months
> before fleeing again. The house trashed in mid-flight by what has been
> suggested was an agent of the CIA, my German rangefinder camera stolen.
> Lucky I had my Nikon with me and they didn't get that. (From the days
> when we were considered the current greatest threat to Australian
> national security... they thought fags and dykes could bring the
> government down even if we don't always get along. Who is the real
> paranoid?)
>
> best wishes
>
> Chris Jones.
>
> Jill Jones wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have been enjoying the poems posted recently. I've been very quiet
>> of late (alternately busy and unwell) but thought I could add
>> something of mine, from a long piece I've been playing with. So it's
>> recent and in progress.
>>
>> For those who don't know me, I live in Sydney where it has finally
>> been raining, thank goodness, as we are deeply in drought and often
>> ringed by bushfires. Dams are emptying all up and down the whole east
>> coast and here water restrictions are about to be put in place. Chris
>> will understand all of this.
>>
>> best to all,
>> Jill
>>
>
>
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