Patrick,
You're more than welcome.
I'll be back in touch in a week or so. I've got a holiday coming up first.
Tina
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Mc Manus" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 6:29 PM
Subject: Re: snap-Bass
> That parquet flaw!!
> Thai bride to be
> Tenderiing memories
> Thanks Tina
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tina Bass
> Sent: 12 July 2006 11:21
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: snap-Bass
>
> Pirbright Camp*
>
>
> inside each one plastique
> mould round parquet flaw
> electric sheened
> in keeping time
> sofas & women bound -
> bright orange flower
> arrangements
>
> night-time glints
> military jeeps
>
> they've come to take...
>
> no, not him tonight - someone
> else stepped out of line
> beat his wife
> too noisily
>
> so quiet
>
> so quietly glass skitters over nylon
>
> another window broken
>
> blame the manufacturers
> for not building strong enough
> British Standard used to mean
> something
> you know
> back then
>
> when?
>
> when
>
> MP's like Frank
> in Sierra Leone
> dealt justice to terrorists
> so they'd understand
> he hung one by its ankles
> put it on slow burn
> while still alive
> it died
>
> tenderising memories now
> his Thai soon-bride-to-be (32)
> she knows that he could get
> much younger if he tried but
> he never screws young girls
> or swears - no loud tattoos
>
> so he says
>
> quickening
>
> moves closer to Gotama every day
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>
>
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>
> *Residential area for British soldiers and their families (close to
> Aldershot, England)
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