As tends to be usual with your work, Dominic, they're neatly
compressed, & very active.
I especially liked
You’re going to be living with yourself,
albeit in separate apartments,
Doug
On 29-Jun-09, at 7:09 AM, Dominic Fox wrote:
> i)
>
> Charity, you asked for that: tact
> never a strong point. Consider yourself snubbed
> by moral imbeciles, lesser imaginations,
> the scale of valuation going right up
> to its asymptote. Nobody knows /
> everyone knows. Pivot on the bar.
>
> ii)
>
> You’re going to be living with yourself,
> albeit in separate apartments, the makeshift
> partition rattling in wartime Morse.
> Steptoe is crushing. Covetousness makes
> covenant with itself, renews its vows
> each episode. There’s comedy in that.
>
> iii)
>
> Tactless but not artless. Some would say
> demonic, aggrandizing a minor imp,
> mascot of common turpitude. So tell me,
> nameless self-accuser, who made you
> chief of sinners? Rather a graceless bounder,
> hopscotching to perdition across the coals.
>
> iv)
>
> Say you have lost, Perdita, a fat pearl;
> lost or dissolved in vinegar. Say we
> are the dead, as some of us might well be,
> no longer credit-worthy; iris scans
> to confirm ongoing probate of remainder.
> Remind me: where exactly did we leave things?
>
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