I bet that I am the only one here who had to look up Quotidian
P quoth quotidian qursh qwerty qui vivre
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From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
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Sent: 05 January 2011 22:31
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Subject: Re: snap: welcoming my new tower
Oh my, Andrew, it sure aint Yeats's....
& yet still caught between....
Doug
On 5-Jan-11, at 9:06 AM, andrew burke wrote:
> A new tower of babbling
> brooks the waves of
> quotidian life in
> this hot sweaty season
>
> A new tower stripped
> of its previous occupant's
> preoccupations and
> more powerful than a locomotive
>
> It is backing itself up,
> shunting all its hearts,
> thoughts, arteries and
> etcetera-ra-ras onto
> a disk which Anonyleaks
> holds in storage for
> the future / lies ahead
>
> as we do, as we babble
> line after standard gauge,
> barber's floor of
> the editing suite
> littered with limbs of
> our basemental thoughts
>
> as the waters rise
> in the east
> and fires rage
> in the west
>
>
> --
> Andrew
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>
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