Hmm yes Bob I know I should let loose, this has been said to me before and
yes I was being moralistic, holding back, maybe more like giving up I think.
Ahh well those days have gone now type of thing. Can the Works stand blatant
sexuality though. Yes of course it can I here folks say. Sally J

>From: Bob Cooper <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Revised Cradle Snatching
>Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 19:12:35 +0000
>
>Hi Sally,
>Wow!
>It reminds me a tad of the TV adverts of a year or so past where a builder
>was drooled at from a crowded office window (and we were supposed to see
>the
>drink can!).
>I find I keep thinking of alternative endings... it's as if the ending's
>not
>going to take any risks, it's playing safe, it's saying: "so far and then
>stop and feel guilty", and I'm wondering if a poem could be written, using
>all of the words up to and including the penultimate line (and maybe
>branches out from that last-but-one-line), but which then praises the
>pleasure that's been found in what's been seen?
>Or I could ask what I'm suggesting in another way: does the poet have to be
>so blatently moral, hold the reader to the poet's morality, isn't the
>ending
>a way of holding the poem back, not letting it loose?
>Go on, kidda, go for it!!!!
>Bob
>
>
>>From: Sally James <[log in to unmask]>
>>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: Revised Cradle Snatching
>>Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 14:45:54 +0100
>>
>>Cradle snatching
>>
>>For the last few mornings, I have seen him
>>crouched upon the roof
>>rat a tat tatting with his little hammer
>>knocking in the nails
>>placing the tiles upon the roof
>>chest bare to the elements
>>trousers fitting snugly, around
>>his tight little arse
>>showing a hint of blue boxers
>>but no builders bum
>>
>>Sometimes he stops
>>pats his peks
>>wipes the sweat from his forehead
>>
>>When it drizzles
>>his six pack ripples in the rain
>>his hairless chest glistens
>>like it has just been polished
>>and a gold chain dangles around his
>>neat little neck
>>sways with the rhythm of his movements
>>
>>He is Art in motion
>>the builder of lost dreams
>>and the same age as my son.
>>
>>Sally James
>>
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