oh so effectively spare and chilling, Dave---good one!
2008/9/9 David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
> I posted a version of this accidentally on the back of Larissa's message
>
> An early, and very rough, snap this is:
>
>
> the man who watched small white vans
> in the hope of their happening in
> odd uneven disruptive numbers
> told me that they mustn't have
>
> big writing. He said this
> was his other option
> to counting to ten. I asked
>
> what that meant. He told me
> it was the countdown of ways
> to kill himself. So far
>
> he'd only got to five. I said:
> keep watching those vans.
>
>
> --
> 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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