cheers for the comments. I guess it marks a deliberate departure in my
practice, looking outwards for subject-matter. Also, please note, no
spelling mistakes. The Gmail spell-checker as it's uses :-)
Roger
On 2/9/07, andrew burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> ... and I love the dark humour of:
>
> rowers sweep up C-notes with their dark blue blades
> birds line their nests a bright green shade this year
>
> Good one, Roger - rufrf'n'raw as such emotion(s) should be.
>
>
> On 08/02/07, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > Interesting shifts of perspective, Roger. Not sure of tone throughout,
> > but really liked the 'sing sang-froid'....
> >
> > Doug
> > On 8-Feb-07, at 7:25 AM, Roger Day wrote:
> >
> > > At night I lie on a neat stack of mustard-wrapped bundles
> > > I fold and re-fold a Jackson
> > > foreseeing disaster
> > > at each turn of a leaf
> > > the White-house is splattered
> > > with jam
> > > Jefferson smiles benignly as Erdinger bitter
> > > spots his forehead
> > > the walls are covered with Lincoln and Grant
> > > Shiloh burns and young men cower by an unknown riverbank
> > > I plink one string ... again ... again ...
> > > the single C vibrates alone at midnight
> > > rowers sweep up C-notes with their dark blue blades
> > > birds line their nests a bright green shade this year
> > > Jackson - who remembers him now? - lines the aircraft hold
> > > the new order of the ages comes to the banks of the Euphrates
> > > He will favour our venture in the depths of the sands
> > > a sussurant wind catches the green-backs and the sands sing sang-froid
> > > foreskins stacked like trash at the foot of the believer
> > > here, Mother, wipe your eyes with this sawbuck
> > > it won't bring him back but he died for the cause
> > > thirty bucks for your youngest
> > > enough for a Dragunov
> > > may Allah be with you
> > > and death to the Infidel!
> > >
> > > --
> > > http://www.badstep.net/
> > > "Patriotism is a virtue of the vicious."
> > >
> > >
> > Douglas Barbour
> > 11655 - 72 Avenue NW
> > Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9
> > (780) 436 3320
> > http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
> >
> > Latest book: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
> > http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
> >
> >
> > The stars wheel over
> > The Cross drops its image
> > Into the watertank.
> >
> > David Campbell
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Andrew
> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
> http://www.bam.com.au/andrew
>
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