Hi all who've commented,
Thanks for what you've written about this poem!
Sad to say the poem is a fiction in itself. Sorry, Mike, Frank! (I only hope
the novellists I know don't read this, and have done this! I'll feel awful
then!). But it could well happen. It's sometimes astonishing what some
writer’s get up to, possibly under the guise of research! – That may be
what’s going on, because she does seem to do it on purpose! Yet again… I
don’t think I know what’s actually going on, I just thought, when I’d
written it, “H’m, that’s interesting…” Then, when I added a title, I
thought, “H’m, I guess it’s a poem.”
I guess I sort of believe that poems get written with the stimuli of Memory
and Imagination (and differing percentages of each are found in different
poems).
I guess this is 90% imagination & 10% memory – the memory part being a vague
recollection of some incidents similar to what Christina alluded to, the
risks writers sometimes take in their lives to assist their writing. And,
Barbara, I’m taking what you said, about how it works for you, seriously!
But I don’t know how to respond… except to say that when we see (when I
see...) someone "famous" I sense I don't look at the fame but stare hard to
see their humanness, I warm to people with faults I can cope with. (Maybe
that's near to what you're saying Ryfkah?). So, can I cope with someone
filching a postcard - perhaps more than I can with some of the other things
I see around me! (But, do I still dissaprove of what "she's" done? Possibly
not...)
Bob
>From: Bob Cooper <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Fiction
>Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 11:36:10 +0000
>
>One for yr C & C:
>
>
>Fiction
>
>I saw a famous novelist
>in WH Smiths at lunchtime
>as she twirled the postcard rack,
>picked one out – the Transporter Bridge
>lit in an evening sky - slipped it
>into her pocket, then slowly
>walked out. On the TV tonight,
>when she was introduced,
>I watched carefully while she
>talked quickly and smiled.
>
>
>Bob Cooper
>
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