I'm sleeping in a broken bed.
It can be got used to.
L
On Wed, September 7, 2011 16:45, andrew burke wrote:
> *"Everything Is Broken"*
>
>
> Broken lines broken strings
> Broken threads broken springs
> Broken idols broken heads
> People sleeping in broken beds
> Ain't no use jiving
> Ain't no use joking
> Everything is broken.
>
>
> - Dylan
>
>
> On 7 September 2011 23:39, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>
>> Yes. I hadn't quite thought of it like that; but, yes.
>>
>>
>> I thought as I combed its hair before posting that I'm glad it doesn't
>> say broken. That's a cliche word here. Tony Cameron said _broken
>> Britain_ and
>> now all sorts of things are said to be broken
>>
>> _It's broke_ is my childhood language. People didn't say _it's broken_
>>
>>
>> I have a sort of generic memory of drivers saying to my dad, _that
>> lorry's broke_ -- it was his job to fix them
>>
>> and of course one is broke when one is poor
>>
>> or, if you prefer,
>>
>> you are broke when you are poor (!)
>>
>> *
>>
>>
>>
>
-----
UNFRAMED GRAPHICS by Lawrence Upton
42 pages; A5 paperback; colour cover
Writers Forum 978 1 84254 277 4
wfuk.org.uk/blog
----
Lawrence Upton
Dept of Music
Goldsmiths, University of London
|