Yes, I only noticed that after writing - it wasn't a set musical piece, so I
shall probably edit to avoid them. My wife hates it, yet my best 'editor'
friend loves it. Whaddyado, Magoo!
Andrew
2009/2/14 Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
> I like the thinking in this Andrew, but was prepared for end rhymes by the
> first 2 stanzas, not followed through....
>
> Doug
>
> On 11-Feb-09, at 9:37 PM, andrew burke wrote:
>
> After lunch I throw
>> the eggshell away.
>>
>> In my pensive mood
>> I think of it as everyday
>>
>> as the falling away
>> layers of living flesh
>>
>> as we go about,
>> walking, thinking, writing.
>>
>> As to the egg, I have
>> little knowledge to
>>
>> respond philosophically.
>> Instead, I brush my teeth,
>>
>> this habit of a lifetime
>> a kind of shell itself.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Andrew
>> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
>>
>>
> Douglas Barbour
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>
> Latest books:
> Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
> Wednesdays'
>
> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
>
> Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity.
>
> Charles Ives
>
--
Andrew
http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
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