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From: "Douglas Barbour" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 11:04 AM
Subject: Re: "Exquisite Hour"
> Very fine, Fred.
>
> I especially liked the understated (but always sardonic at some
> level)commentary, like:
>
> <<as if, unaccountably,
> two cars had agreed
> to pull over and meditate.>>
>
> and those final 8 lines.
>
> Doug
Doug, glad you liked it. Had a hell of a time w/ this one - started with
the sight of that traffic stop. (REAL poets have Broadway or the Left Bank
to stroll, or endless paranoid views of the sea or outback; I have Macarthur
Boulevard.) A "Martian" moment: why are those two cars just sitting there?
After which I had to follow my own advice to go over the top and keep on
climbing.
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