Sandy?
Carshalton Beeches
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On Wed, April 6, 2011 15:48, Patrick McManus wrote:
> Sandy with the metal in her nose,
> tongue and ears. Where is she today? Yes where is she today??
> P
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> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of andrew burke
> Sent: 06 April 2011 14:00
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> Subject: snap: Have a Nice Day
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> Driving to the shopping centre,
> Bukovski rambling in my ear,
> I’m glad to be sober
> and anonymous. When I was young, all hormones and energy, my poetic was all
> about rebellion and getting a fuck. Today I step out of the car, head
> full of Buk, and grab a trolley, swearing at its bent wheels. That’ll help,
> my sober brain puts in, sarcastic as ever. The old desire to be listened
> to comes back and I’m impatient at each counter, waiting for this, waiting
> for that. They’ve got machines now,
> not people. Just key in your late mother’s hat size and, voila, the
money is
> out of your account and into theirs, Messrs Coles and Woolies. Warmly
> I remember the décolletage of
> Sandy with the metal in her nose,
> tongue and ears. Where is she today? At the scrap metal yard?
> This machine doesn’t rock my world.
> It doesn’t have Sandy’s knowing smile,
> asking sweetly through banded teeth, Any fly bys? It’s a drive-by, fly by,
> bye-bye whirled. Who’ll enjoy the fly bys on your funeral plan? Buk’s
> buggered my mood, but he’s gone and I’m still here, shopping, so who’s to
> complain. The machine says, Have a nice day with an American twang and I
> kick the trolley straight again.
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>
> I admit to cheating. I've been dredging through poetry drafts to find a
> few to work up, and this one caught my fancy. Any criticisms welcome as
> always.
>
>
> Andrew
> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
> 'Mother Waits for Father Late' republished available at
> http://www.picaropress.com/
> http://www.qlrs.com/poem.asp?id=766
> http://frankshome.org/AndrewBurke.html
>
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collaborative visual work:-
http://www.poetrybeyondtext.org/upton-begbie.html
http://www.poetrybeyondtext.org/begbie-upton.html
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Lawrence Upton
AHRC Creative Research Fellow
Dept of Music
Goldsmiths, University of London
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