What do you think about misspelling Britten's
name as Britain? In her half-sleep state she
probably intended something similar.
And what's it like living with someone who's that
witty in a hypnogogic state? Keeps you on your toes, I bet.
Best,
Mark
At 11:33 AM 4/21/2010, you 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
Announcing The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban
Poetry (University of California Press).
http://go.ucpress.edu/WholeIsland
"Not since the 1982 publication of Paul Auster's
Random House Book of Twentieth Century French
Poetry has a bilingual anthology so effectively
broadened the sense of poetic terrain outside the
United States and also created a superb
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nothing else like it." John Palattella in The
Nation
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