Lawrence you are lucky that she did not silence you with a pillow or summat!
P concerned -still you having to sleep in a shed i the garden did sound
drastic
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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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