Thanks PP,

At the moment there is no more to tell, though fathers reactions will be
furhter monitored hehehe

On a more serious note, it seems a tricky business (to me anyway) to be
taking aspects elements and incidents out of someone's life, turning them
into story/verse and then handing them over to the person that was the
subject/originator of the tale. I get very nervous and frequently encounter
a mixture of pleasure, pride, frowns, corrections and general uncertainty in
the reactions of subjects.

Bad luck, I guess, because they have stories that I want to record and tell,
so as long as I have ears to hear and the capacity to write, I'm afraid
they're tuck with me doing my little numbers on them.

By the way, mother reacts somewhat similarly when a poem is about her, but
she kind of trusts me to be in pursuit of something important, and I
sincerely hope that she is right.

Cheers and thanks for reading the piece.

Frank

>the first two stanzas, Frank, are brilliant
>especailly
>
>>when he reads what I've written he feels somehow displaced
>>by a man concocted from fiction
>
>I find the last stanza less convincing. I want to swat this so-called
>sensitive poet for blundering on, (it's ok, Mummy says so), for failing to
>fully explore, in this latest story, his father's distress at being usurped
>by his own ghost
>
>P-P


The Tales of Faust poetry page can be found at:
http://www.hotkey.net.au/~flp/F_index.htm


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