You'll spend enough time if it grabs you enough, like you did on Goose?
SallyE

on 10/7/02 1:23 pm, James Bell at [log in to unmask] wrote:

> Hi Sally,
> Thanks for the response on this piece. It is based on a comment that Tom
> Leonard made in an essay, that is the alphabet bit, and the other parts were
> an extention, so your instinct is quite correct that it is fragmentary.
> You've given me the idea that I could extend it from its current sketch like
> quality and still preserve the current denouement.Though while being
> prolific I'm lazy and tend not to spend the time I feel I ought to on a
> poem.
> bw
> James
>
>
>> From: Sally Evans <[log in to unmask]>
>> Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: New sub: From A to Z
>> Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 11:41:56 +0100
>>
>> James, to me this reads like a fragment, it has two or three arguments, not
>> one clear one. (the alphabet & animals is one 'argument' in this sense the
>> thing about the girls is another, and the conclusion wich may be the main
>> drift of the poem, is suddenly added on as an afterthought.)
>> And while I'm being negative, youve missed out some of the letters of the
>> alphabet!
>> All the same you seem to be just about the only one writing at all at the
>> moment. Good on you.
>>
>> bw
>> SallyE
>>
>> on 10/7/02 9:06 am, James Bell at [log in to unmask] wrote:
>>
>>> Tell me what you think of this:
>>>
>>>> From A To Z
>>>
>>> Like most boys
>>> bbby the age of eight
>>> he could tell
>>> and aligator from a cat
>>> a dog from an elephant
>>> a giraffe from a kangaroo
>>> a leopard and a lion from a tiger
>>> a rhinoceros from a zebra
>>>
>>> having done his alphabet that way
>>>
>>> He knew too some of the ways
>>> that girls were different
>>> had learnt other things
>>>
>>> Already he had learnt
>>> that when you kiss a girl
>>> the world looks different
>>> and can be better than
>>> playing football all day
>>> though life can get serious
>>> and given the chance
>>> can go from Z to B
>>>
>>> bw
>>> James
>>>
>>>
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> bw
> James
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