thank you dave, i should need the physical help of everybody right now... i
will have plenty of poems to write on the indecency of neighbors as soon as
i have finished moving their stuff and cleaning up their mess and fixing all
the wrongs they have done and been doing,
:-( anny
> Dear Anny
>
> thanks for imputing decadence to me, I'm really pleased about that, I've
> long thought I was decayed rather than decadent so it's a kind of career
> move. It was quite interesting just re-reading the poem, as obviously I'd
> completely forgotten what I'd written, the one line I'm concerned about is
> 'clinking like wine glasses', not in terms of the image but I'm not sure
> whether it's rhythmically quite right. H'm.
>
> Ta for the dried flowers!
>
> Best
>
> Dave
>
>
>
> David Bircumshaw
>
> Leicester, England
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Anny Ballardini" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 7:40 AM
> Subject: Re: poetry
>
>
> hi dave,
> your poem is full of decadence
> with that kind waving of the actor leaving the scene, here is a dried red
> chrisantemum for it,
> take care, anny
>
> > Anyhow this is just another of my throwaway poems, it's probably
terrible
> > and completely fails to say what I want but I thought I'd give the dead
> art
> > another try for a laff.
> >
> >
> > Best
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
> >
> > I am brilliant, but pathetic.
> > Casual acquaintances tell me
> > the most intimate details
> > of their lives, yet I walk
> >
> > home alone with my bundle
> > of silence humped on my back.
> >
> > I am the one you love
> > but forget, the still loud voice
> > to be ignored, unbeknown
> > to the known, the laughter
> >
> > clinking like wine glasses
> > that fades at the end of the joke.
> >
> >
> >
> > David Bircumshaw
> >
> > Leicester, England
> >
> > Home Page
> >
> > A Chide's Alphabet
> >
> > Painting Without Numbers
> >
> > http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/index.htm
> >
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