Dave,
You mean you weren't seriously referencing an american r & r dance which rose to
popularity during the period when zen was being popularized? The singer of "Mashed
Potato Time", Dee Dee Sharp, reportedly didn't perform the dance for fear of injury,
though of course Merce Cunningham's dancers warmed up to it while reading D.T. Suzuki.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AenF48rgNFM
Here are contemporary British instructions which you could implement within a public
presentation of your text:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBNDJStgF6Y&feature=related
Barry
On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:43:13 +0000, David Bircumshaw
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>I take it you're joking, Andrew, I was (viz.title)
>
>2009/3/19 andrew burke <[log in to unmask]>:
>> "... and another day
>> falls off the fork he lifts to his mouth." Dave B.
>>
>> in a church hall at 6.30am
>> two dozen refugees from
>> the battle of daily living
>> bright'n'breezies with the half-awake
>>
>> getting sustenance
>> from the eggs and sausage
>> and the experience strength
>> and hope of others
>>
>> no sauce with that
>> but plenty of laughs
>> and chitchat in the carpark at
>> the meeting after the meeting
>>
>> the day's up and running
>> like my pup in the frontyard
>> letting the traffic roar by
>> easy does it but doing it easy
>>
>>
>> 2009/3/19 David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
>>
>>> Zen and the Art of Mashed Potato
>>>
>>> It is sunset in his head and another day
>>> falls off the fork he lifts to his mouth.
>>> Could take another stab at it, he mulls,
>>> whorling, doodling, patterns on a plate.
>>>
>>>
>>> (which above came to mind as I woke +at dawn+ this morning. Odd how
>>> the mind ...)
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> David Bircumshaw
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