that's *his thing, I suppose
I wrote that and then wondered
no he was touching himself before he looked smug
and the woman in the car made notes before she looked disapproving
in a way nothing is happening
with the exception of the cat and the dog
and maybe whoever has thrown out the carpet
L
On Fri, September 2, 2011 17:06, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> Weel, everything is happening there, Lawrence, for sure. (Why is the man
> 'looking smug' when everyone else _does_ their thing?)
>
>
> Doug
> On 2011-09-02, at 6:19 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
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>
>> A woman, slumped in her dull car, peers out,
>> disapproving, making notes with pursed lips; a man in a shabby coat,
>> trading gossip, rubbing his crotch through baggy trousers, looking smug;
>> a cat rolls on a carpet left on a garden path; a dog pisses on a grass
>> verge, wetting the plastic bottle thrown there, glistening now; a blue
>> four wheel drive fails to complete a three point turn; and stalls down in
>> the sunken road dusty in leaves; a house alarm goes off and is ignored;
>> you cunt, shouts a youth to his friend right there, beside him,
>> grinning, compliant, dragging feet as the two torrent downhill noisily.
>>
>>
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>> Dept of Music
>> Goldsmiths, University of London
>>
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UNFRAMED GRAPHICS by Lawrence Upton
42 pages; A5 paperback; colour cover
Writers Forum 978 1 84254 277 4
wfuk.org.uk/blog
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Lawrence Upton
Dept of Music
Goldsmiths, University of London
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