Now you're cookin', Andrew. Thanks.
Hal
“The world began without the human race and will certainly end without it.”
--Claude Lévi-Strauss
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On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 5:55 PM, andrew burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Received with 'just the right amount' of
> playful understanding, lest the day bring
> on cloudbanks of thought and erudition.
> Prebreakfast, it enjoys three satellite
>
> reception, with all dogs walked and porridge
> soaking on the stove. The kettle boils
> and he measures Fiori coffee scoops
> into the plunger. Yesterday's rain has
>
> soaked in and the garden stretches out as
> he pours and stirs the brew before putting
> a flame under the porridge. Now he plunges
> in as he has done before so many
>
> times, impatient to enjoy what's on off-
> er before satellite coverage is lost.
>
> ----
>
> Thanks for your poem, Hal. Off to breakfast now ... Andrew
>
>
> 2009/11/13 Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
>
> > My Strange Amoeba
> >
> > Notwithstanding its ability to reproduce by simply
> > separating part of itself from itself and sending it off
> > to pre-school, it wasn't all that different from other
> > simple life forms, say clarinetists or performers on
> >
> > the oud. It's not a question of bricolage or muscle
> > thumb, but rather watching where one falls. Nervous
> > improvisations in adjacent precincts. The constant
> > lap of water on the shore. Aromatherapy, one
> >
> > option we'd given no thought to . . . until yesterday,
> > that is. Playing near the edges of one's world, one
> > finds, even there, mandatory vaccinations. Relatively
> > fixed, in this most neurotic of worlds, despite our
> >
> > most fraudulent endeavors, we await our ends with
> > just precisely the right amount of equanimity.
> >
> >
> > Hal
> >
> > Halvard Johnson
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>
>
>
> --
> Andrew
>
> 'Beyond City Limits', pub. ICLL @ ECU, available at topnotch indie
> bookshops
> - list at http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
>
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