Thank you, Doug - 'f.u.n, fun' as the great Cannonball said. (Have you
seen the Mingus on YouTube? Address on my blog for part one. Took
awhile to download here.) (I'm guessing y're a Mingus fan, as I am.)
A
On 16/05/07, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> and good fun, too.
>
> Doug
> On 15-May-07, at 5:54 PM, andrew burke wrote:
>
> > ... after Ted Berrigan after Frank O'Hara
> >
> > It's 7.26 a.m. in Linfen it's the 16th of May and
> > it's probably 7.27 in Gibb River but I'm
> > in Linfen I'm eating Chinese bananas and drinking
> > Yunnan Mocha and I'm thinking of how Linfen is Old
> > London town too how odd I usually think of it as
> > something putrid like a Philippines' rubbish tip like Cher-
> > nobyl like Hades
> > I never thought on the Narrows
> > Bridge I'd come to live in Linfen
> > just to see coal-hearted businessmen and corrupt
> > government officials take life away and call it
> > Progress
> > and I never thought Li Bai would be climbing Tai Bai
> > flagon clinking teeth rotten from too much wine
> > brush and inkwell splashing the peach blossom black
> > when we were Young Poets reading Pound and
> > watching the sun come up over North Cottesloe Beach
> > across Rottnest Island
> > I think I was thinking when I was
> > ahead I'd be somewhere like Paris cool
> > fit awash with wine and beautifully loved
> > contemplating my new book of poems
> > to be printed bi-lingual on fine art paper
> > elegant dripping with ennui
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Notes: my wife is in Gibb River Station, far north of Western
> > Australia; Narrows Bridge is in my hometown Perth. All else is obvious
> > methinks. Just fun.
> >
> > --
> > Andrew
> > http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
> > http://www.inblogs.net/hispirits
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> >
> >
> Douglas Barbour
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>
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>
>
> Peace isn't even as good a sales item
> as poetry.
>
> W. H. Ferry
>
--
Andrew
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