Kenneth, as far as I know, they don't sell Birkenstocks in the U.K.
It's one of the differences between American English and this
island's : everything we speak isn't quite full of adverts yet.
Yours
Bircumshaw
(means a clearing on a bend of the small stream amongst the birch wood)
deliberately 'amongst' I put, notice that?
2008/6/18 Kenneth Wolman <[log in to unmask]>:
> Dominic Fox wrote:
>>
>> thinking Christ
>> Christ I'm getting older
>> and the starlets
>> are getting younger
>>
>> all the time
>>
>
> Teaching assistants
> long before the gray hair and viagra
> sit over coffee and the floor show
> the parade of undergraduate girls
> sliding by on Birkenstocks
> and imagined lubricants
>
> "The toughest part of this profession"
> one of us said
> "is that we get older
> and they will always and forever
> be 18."
>
> God plays dirty because
> she likes it that way.
>
> kw/6-18-08
>
> --
> Ken Wolman http://bestiaire.typepad.com
> http://www.petsit.com/content317832.html
> -------------------
> "Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen,
> eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long." -- Walker Evans
>
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David Bircumshaw
Website and A Chide's Alphabet http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
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