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From: "Douglas Barbour" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, July 06, 2009 10:37 AM
Subject: Re: 2 poems
Liked them both, Fred, but especially 'Invasive Procedure' with its
hopeless hope (I guess youd call it).
I would cary that 'unmutated / ineptitude' forward too, I suspect.
There we are, we 'artists'
vaguely guilty about not being rich.
Living like any liberal
in a constant enervating anguish
(unlike the conservative’s bracing pose)
of betrayal
I believe....
Doug
Thanks, Doug!! Hopeless hope, yes, exactly --- It was Shelley in
"Prometheus Unbound" who assigned me years ago my theme and tone: "...to
hope till hope creates / From its own wreck the thing it contemplates."
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