Whoa, there! Give me dreamless sleep!
Doug
Quoting "andrew burke" <[log in to unmask]>:
> Last night, while you were waking, I dreamt I had a poem selected in the new
> Australian Best Poems of 2009. The book was in early production only there
> was a word I was to change and I couldn't come up with just the right word.
> The editor was a friend, David Brooks, another poet, and his young female
> assistant, all kept suggesting words by phone, by email, in person ... the
> days went on, the weeks grew in number, and panic began to set in. Where was
> the Lost Word? One day I proffered a new alternative, only half-convinced
> but knowing time was running out. The assistant replied coolly, Oh, we've
> fixed that. What! Not MY word, but THEIR word went in. They wouldn't tell me
> what it was so I ranted and raved, but they'd hung me out to dry until the
> book was launched in many months time. I woke, worrying about the Word,
> which word, and would I find the right word this morning ...
>
> Andrew
>
Douglas Barbour
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