Yes all those crumbs in bed but at the table one must remember to remove
those sharp knives:-)
P
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From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of MJ Walker
Sent: 10 April 2007 22:09
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Subject: Re: snapshot -- revision
I've always preferred the kitchen table to the bedroom myself, Pat me
old mate.
mj
Patrick Mc Manus wrote:
>Well this was heartening Martin -this line of 'pro and amateur' -what
about
>living enjoying practising all the arts especially in the bedroom -seems
>like some doorways being closed-leave it to the professionals -sod that -we
>live we write we paint we cook we drink we sing and even other things-
>Cheers P
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>Behalf Of MJ Walker
>Sent: 10 April 2007 20:08
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: snapshot -- revision
>
>I am proud always to have been a dabbler - in life, in music, in poetry,
>in ballet (ah! who remembers my fluted demi-piranhas in
>Schmidt-Cremoni's *Dragonballs*) & cooking (I cooked several people's
>geese but they hardly noticed), not to mention self-abuse of several
>kinds - et j'en oublie.
>mj
>
>MC Ward wrote:
>
>
>
>>Hi Patrick and Laura,
>>
>>I think of a poetry "pro" as someone who writes
>>seriously as a vocation, while an amateur is a dabbler
>>in poetry. I have yet to see any dabblers on this
>>list.
>>
>>Candice
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
--
A man may write of love, and not be in love, as well as of husbandrie, and
not goe to plough: or of witches, and be none: or of holinesse, and be flat
prophane. - Giles Fletcher the Elder.
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