This is a perfect poem-movie. I can even see Nick Nolte as the Poet at
the check-out.
mj
Andrew Burke wrote:
>Possibly you've seen them in shopping centres,
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>talking to themselves, or so you've thought,
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>but they are novelists
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>at the end of a long journey
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>chatting to their characters.
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>You're right to be sceptical - after all
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>you can't see who they are talking to -
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>you'll see them later when you read
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>the tale or it is turned into a mini series.
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>By then they may be on the best sellers list
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>at the bookshop along with a news item
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>how the novelist, so well-respected and of
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>good family, was taken away from
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>a shopping centre recently and incarcerated -
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>a complete breakdown, talking to everyone
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>and no one, including watermelons and celery .
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>Poets on the other hand . they turn up
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>at the checkout with empty baskets
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>and are amazed no one can see their items.
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>Andrew Burke
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