Like it Lawrence...
I like it as much as a trumpet at sunset
I like it as much as a..........
Cheers
Tim A.
On 21 Apr 2010, at 16:33, Lawrence Upton wrote:
> This is 20 years old but I still bring it out occasionally. I offer
> it for
> such amusement as it affords
>
> My partner was so anguished by a period of (my) snoring she resorted
> to
> the most extraordinary metaphors to communicate with me, as if I were
> willingly disturbing her
>
> when i realised what was happening I tried to retain some
>
> I may have muddled them; she was certainly still half asleep when
> she made
> them
>
> when i had enough, I put them into this shape and then read them at a
> public reading in her presence
>
> L
>
>
> SNORING - my partner's metaphors
>
> I am snoring.
> I am snoring like a sunset,
> snoring like a stone;
> I am snoring like the inside of a model of a frog's eye;
> I am snoring like the spleen of a cat;
> I am snoring like the sea;
> I am snoring like a roll of linoleum;
> I am snoring like a small boy boiling in flaming pitch;
> I am snoring like a pebble;
> I am snoring like a bridge over frozen water;
> snoring like a table top;
> snoring like the Dardanelles;
> snoring like Pope John XXIII;
> like daisies in a chain;
> spiritually;
> I am snoring like seventy million donkeys;
> I am snoring like all the couples in the world,
> hetero and other sexual, fucking
> in the same bed simultaneously next door;
> snoring more loudly than the refrigerator.
> I snore like a trumpet.
> I snore louder than a trumpet.
> I snore louder than all the trumpets in Benjamin Britten.
>
>
>
> --
> "The desire to testify": interview with Chris Goode
> http://intercapillaryspace.blogspot.com/2010/02/desire-to-testify.html
> ["the fullest, or at least the broadest, account I've yet given of
> what it
> is I think I do and what questions underwrite it" Chris Goode]
>
> ‘a song and a film’ by Lawrence Upton -- Veer Publications / Writers
> Forum
> ISBN: 978-1-907088-05-6 A5 84 pages. 2009. £6.00
>
> "water lines and other poems" by Lawrence Upton - Pdf_16x16 111 pages
> free download http://chalkeditions.co.cc
>
> ‘snap shots and video’ by Lawrence Upton -- Writers Forum
> ISBN: 978-1-84254-113-5 A5 52 pages. £6.00
>
> Lawrence Upton
> AHRC Creative Research Fellow
> Dept of Music
> Goldsmiths, University of London
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