Thanks on this Sally. Calaya picked up on some sarcasm and You have picked
up on the compulsive need to write here.
bw
James
>From: sally evans <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: New sub: today your reasoning
>Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 02:39:59 +0000
>
>yes that is different James, and really fun. I think itworks without qwuite
>knowing where the third and fourth stanza is coming from - like a
>compulsive
>speaking poem.
>cheers
>SallyE
>,on 11/3/06 11:40 am, James Bell at [log in to unmask] wrote:
>
> > Something diferent I hope.
> >
> >
> > today your reasoning
> >
> > is concerned with Jules Verne however briefly
> > and 80 days and the balloon you saw
> > that had something to do with five whole weeks
> > but all up in the air
> > all up there somewhere
> > where the cirrus blows
> > and the hurricane grows
> > in spite of our knowledge of nearly everything
> >
> > to continue
> > you have to admit to names
> > semingly at random after confessions of crime
> > or as a form of redemption
> > for to name is to be real -
> > have brilliance in the hegemony of a smile
> >
> > that sounds satisfactory
> > with the posityion of detail that ultimately escapes us all -
> > gives no focus to convention
> > or a differentiation of parts beyond form
> > beyond the dissembling of reason
> > beyond the repetition of small concerns
> > that resist the urge to universalise
> > like a transient who is so poor
> > he is born only to be poor then die
> >
> > let this poem be known as how to be didactic with a smile
> > or - repetition then you die
> >
> >
> >
> > bw
> > James
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