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From: "Douglas Barbour" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 12:30 PM
Subject: Re: "Mistakes Were Made"
> Both elusive & allusive, Fred; I can't quite get a grip on 'we', but
> recognize all too well some complicity....
>
> 'There you have it.'; indeed....
>
HE can't get a handle on them either. Who could confront him thus? What
would the situation have to be for him to be confronted thus? The answers
hinge on who He is -- and the easiest thing to say is that he is the sort of
soul that invents and uses phrases like the title. - My default position in
my more narrative poems is "a ghost story from the ghost's point of view";
this one extended that technique.
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