Hi Max,
where are your people around here in this country?
Don't know if they told you, but today is a day to stay inside the blinds
pulled down with the swift buzzing of a fan, :-)
On 6/20/07, kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> "This is lovely, Max. Happy Birthday."
>
> was what I was going to say. this is the greatest list poem (with this
> imagery/tone/voice) I think I've read
>
> KS
>
> On 20/06/07, cooee <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > What I Got
> >
> > What did I get
> > for my seventieth?
> > Two sweet emails and two
> > phone calls from New Zealand,
> > my loved home country.
> > A book voucher worth
> > rather more than I am,
> > still burning my pocket.
> > Silk ties from Thailand,
> > from my globetrotting son;
> > gloves and scarves from Italy,
> > from my globetrotting
> > daughter and son-in-law;
> > all just back home - there's
> > a gift - safe and sound.
> >
> > Two desired recent
> > books from New Zealand,
> > fiction and verse,
> > both by C.K.Stead,
> > who taught me in '62 -
> > from our mutual friend.
> >
> > A big party at our place
> > with dozens of smiling faces.
> > Bottles of good red wine
> > in bright wrappers,
> > one of scotch, and one (historic)
> > of Pimms Number One Cup.
> > A vroom-vroom toy car
> > made of coca-cola tin.
> >
> > A statuette by my friend
> > titled 'The Storyteller'
> > but his face is featureless,
> > Išll be tempted to add
> > eyes and a smile.
> >
> > Graphic art by two other friends,
> > one satirical of bookshops
> > and their patrons like me,
> > one of Beijing dogs on Beijing paper,
> > with advice on how to frame it
> > (not cheap), and an offer
> > to do our pup's portrait -
> > it would take two days.
> >
> > An hour of songs sung by
> > Kate and Ruth, in tune with
> > their guitars and banjo
> > (see their website for their
> > range and quality),
> > their 'Boots of Spanish Leather'
> > unaccompanied lovely-sad.
> >
> > A Lebanese banquet from
> > Dunyazad in nearby Greythorn,
> > much relished by every guest
> > (scarcely sampled by me
> > so busy talking).
> >
> > A round of offerings
> > musical and poetical:
> > starting with a song about me
> > adapted from Mac the Knifeš;
> > a wicked Tom Lehrer song
> > sensational for those
> > too young first time round;
> >
> > a prolonged skirl on the Scottish pipes
> > which most wished longer;
> > a Chopin mazurka with soul
> > on our little-used piano.
> > Three earnest poems from
> > three earnest poets, including me.
> >
> > John Anderson my Još sung
> > by Scotlandšs exported Burns expert;
> > Theodorakis on CD, playing
> > while our Greek friends
> > brewed up a happy cyclone
> > drawing us in to Zorba
> > the dancing Greek.
> >
> > To mention only a few.
> >
> >
> > Max Richards
> > Doncaster, Victoria
> >
> > Wednesday 20 June 2007
> >
>
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