Actually, Andrew, I like it both ways. I seem to be getting a whole
bunch of posts, in reverse order!
Doug
On 18-Jan-10, at 3:07 PM, andrew burke wrote:
> 5am. In that silent
> suburban time before
> dawn, a kookaburra
> sings solo outside
>
> our courtyard. I’ve
> been mulling over
> that quote, ‘Old age
> is not for sissies’
>
> and the kookaburra’s
> laugh underscores it.
> On the windowsill
> my old comb lies,
>
> full of dog’s hair.
> More birds sing now,
> like all the canned
> laughter of sit coms
>
> played out of control.
> I sit at the kitchen
> table (I have
> measured my life
>
> in kitchen tables)
> attempting to write
> the punchline before
> the penultimate break.
>
>
>
>
>
> Andrew
>
> 'Beyond City Limits', pub. ICLL @ ECU, available at topnotch indie
> bookshops - list at http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
>
Douglas Barbour
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