Hi Colin,
I find this poem rather nebulous the way it stands and feel it desperately
needs to be anchored in something to provide a way for the reader to enter
the poem, if that in itself is not being nebulous.
bw
James
>From: Colin dewar <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: newsub/devil
>Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 13:14:57 -0000
>
>Devil's Advocate
>
>Does it seem I play
>at devil's advocate
>as I with you oppose word with word,
>uplift to each idea its opposite,
>propose that if we wished
>our places could easily be switched?
>
>Such banter
>is my way of knowing a strong plant,
>that we speak with faces,
>each turned incompletely
>to a common goal.
>
>
>
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>Colin
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