>Dear Frank,
Apologies for repeating what I've said before, but I do find the
layout, with the long lines broken by spaces, very off-putting. It might
work in occasional lines, but I don't think it does used in every line like
this. I think you've gone over the top with this idea, till the spacing
seems more like a computer glitch than something you intended.
Whats 'purgatude', by the way? It's not a word I recognise.
Kind regards,
grasshopper
> >From: Frank Faust <[log in to unmask]>
> >Subject: Hyper-sub - no, not the old city
> >Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:39:55 +1100
> >
> >(my line = 'streets that follow like a tedious argument')
> >
> >... and the old city is a wasting of time there is nothing of value
> >there
> >no return on that investment those twenty years of purgatude
> >spent with an aspirational heart every day from the beginning
> >when to walk that way was something fresh and new each pace
> >holding its own speed and reason much like here perhaps
> >here in this newer place with this newer purpose
> >so draped with the coatings now of experience knowledge
> >perhaps it is not the purpose that has changed not so very much
> >
> >this though this is not that ancient wreckage with its labyrinth
> >byways
> >foetid distractions those twisted streets that follow like a tedious
> >argument
> >renewed upon boulevards and avenues that open yawning black
> >in sickly honeyed invitation with each tempted visitation to
that
> >past no
> >this is newer ground these paths are fresh and open look up
> >that blue is the sky in this place it is mine yours ours
if
> >you wish it
> >you and me and the coloured blue of our own sky
> >
> >no let us not go near to the old city
> >there is nothing there for us nothing
> >
> >~
> >Frank
> >
> >
> >
> >The Tales of Faust poetry page can be found at:
> >http://www.hotkey.net.au/~flp/F_index.htm
> >
> >
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