I thought of celebrating my sixth birthday on February 29, but 2008 was nearly three years too
early for that. Wouldn't want to be premature.
Barry
On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 17:40:01 +0100, Anny Ballardini <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Sorry for your mother Barry.
>
>Let me be silly to play down a little,
>weren't you just about 20 on your latest birthday... :-)
>
>On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]>
>wrote:
>
>> Intriguing use of "*" After two readings I can't quite figure their
>> relation to quotation marks. Line
>> 8 is really something--I might like to treat it or quote it in the future.
>> Who should I cite?
>>
>> My 89 year old mother almost got clipped yesterday by a METRO bus while we
>> were crossing the
>> main drag of Bethesda Maryland to get to a major gallery exhibition
>> mounted by Osuna Art of the
>> Washington Color School painter Howard Mehring. That near-miss forced me
>> to adopt a
>> performative stance towards reality in which I have a camera in hand with
>> finger on the live
>> trigger--overtly focused on the drivers & vehicles impatient to turn into
>> well-marked crosswalks.
>> Stops 'em in their tracks. Deters panhandlers as well, when you're
>> walking thus on sidewalks.
>>
>>
>> Barry
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 10:56:39 +0100, Anny Ballardini <
>> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> >an interesting composing
>> >
>> >On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 4:52 AM, Peter Ciccariello <[log in to unmask]>
>> >wrote:
>> >
>> >> *Important *
>> >>
>> >> When you are still there,
>> >> Just that one peremptory step aside
>> >> And the dark fuming bus vortexes past you
>> >> And you are still there
>> >> Looking out from your envelope head
>> >>
>> >> Continuing on your way
>> >> To something else so important
>> >>
>> >> *Importance gesticulates in as quickly as it soirees out *
>> >>
>> >> - Another thing
>> >> The bus can't carry:
>> >>
>> >> A brown desiccated leaf
>> >> Dancing across the snow
>> >>
>> >> All these things that you do
>> >> These things that you have married yourself to
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> - Peter Ciccariello
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >--
>> >Anny Ballardini
>> >http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/
>> >http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=poetshome
>> >http://www.moriapoetry.com/ebooks.html
>> >I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing
>> >star!
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>Anny Ballardini
>http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/
>http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=poetshome
>http://www.moriapoetry.com/ebooks.html
>I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing
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