But which Cambridge, Robin?
You're into it, for sure, & I enjoyed these wee ones, for sure.
Doug
On 1-Jul-05, at 1:33 PM, Robin Hamilton wrote:
> ADOLESCENT RHUBARB STALKS THE MUSE
>
> "I wandered lonely as a clod."
>
> For SJD
>
> Ahm no jist a
> n egoistical
> Perpendicular Pronoun
>
> -- see me, ahm sumboddi --
>
> bit whit yi might caw
> "a locus of perception"
>
> Ahm eye
>
>
> LIMINAL INCIDENT
>
> Ah wiz walkin doon
> Sauchiehall Street
> when this big fuckin
> ostridge
> accostit me
> sellin copies o
> the Big Issue.
>
> "Wan u copie, jimmy?"
> it said.
>
> "No thank you, my man,"
> I retorted.
> "Bought it in Edinburgh yesterday."
>
>
>
> PO[ST]FACE[D]
>
> Wir aw intae that
> Wordsworth Rap
> the day
>
> -- but what IZ the real
> langiwig o men?
>
> Ah mean, no very
> poliically correc but
>
> Whit wid be the Reel
> "language" o wimin?
>
> Coupla wifies havin a
> crack in the close?
>
> Scream uf rage at the
> glass ceilin?
>
> Cut yir baws aff
> sooniz lookit yi.
>
>
>
> THE CRAB WALTZ
>
> (for my father)
>
> My father tried to teach
> the wee crabs
> to walk straight
>
> Every sundayschool he'd
> drill them:
> left foot first
> THEN right
>
> After an hour
> line of crabs
> one after the other
> lockstep
>
> Then came Monday --
> oh dear!
> round and round
> in a circle again
>
> Might as well
> try to
> teach a horse to sing.
>
>
> ROBIN HAMILTON
> 26.06.05
>
>
Douglas Barbour
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-- bring lust into the library
or it is hell.
Lisa Robertson
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