Hi grasshopper,
A fun read! But maybe a slight read more than a light read. (But, don't
worry too much, I feel like this almost every time I pick up bitch-and-moan
Betjeman!). I've read it a couple of times but the second time I read it
wasn't as good as the first.
I noticed what I may call its faults all the more - Deliver-less, no show
(which sounds odd, isn't quite english...) and press-packed cycle is, again,
where I know what you're wanting to say - but feel you ain't properly saying
it.
When I think of Faure I only think of the music I've got of his - the Requim
- so I find I'm left with both you and the lad musing on religion instead of
handling the weight of the world! Interesting...
Bob
>From: grasshopper <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: New sub: Sunday Times
>Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2004 02:31:15 -0000
>
>
>
> Sunday Times
>
>My door-mat's bare: no pages to enjoy.
>I phone the shop. Last week they blamed the snow
>but now a girl admits the Sunday boy
>has let them down. Deliver-less, no show
>for art reviews, for science updates, wars
>and peace. No supplements, no insights now
>on politics across the globe, no scores,
>no crosswords to squinch tramlines in my brow.
>
>I like to think his press-packed cycle veered
>to church, and he has donned a seraph face
>and dove-white robe, and is installed, choir-tiered,
>to pipe Pie Jesu with fervent grace.
>
>The world can wait, those tumbling words, that news.
>I fill my room with Fauré's calm, and muse.
>
> grasshopper
>
>(NB: Title and Pie Jesu should appear in italics)
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