The local supermarket has WCs which are often out of order; and they hang
a cloth over the door saying WE APOLOGISE FOR THE INCONVENIENCE
I like that
Anyway, thank you very much. No need to apologise. Try as I might I cannot
convince myself that people are on edge waiting for the next Upton poem.
It's nice to be read when you can do it
L
On Fri, March 2, 2012 05:01, Andrew Burke wrote:
> Only read it today (sorry for inconvenience). Like it, Lawrenzo. It
> speaks.
>
> Andrew
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> On 2 March 2012 00:42, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Thanks, Doug
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>> L
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>> On Thu, March 1, 2012 17:55, Douglas Barbour wrote:
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>>> I like it as a candid camera shot, Lawrence...one slowly sees all
>>> that's there to see...
>>>
>>> Doug
>>> On 2012-03-01, at 2:14 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Propped forward of her own deep arse,
>>>> leaning as if rising to stand, she is hunched upon a diary the pages
>>>> of which are turned rapidly, more as if in search than reading,
>>>> jumping sifting among pages. Sat opposite, he watches her with care,
>>>> disguised in amusement.
>>>>
>>>> She looks to him in mutual stares.
>>>> She says: Warren is quite upset.
>>>> He bought you a pain au raisin.
>>>> You didn't eat any of it.
>>>> Smiling, he giggles to himself
>>>> expressionless now, eyes half-closed.
>>>>
>>>> [Should have been sent yesterday but I was indisposed. We apologise
>>>> for any inconvenience.]
>>>>
>>>
>>> Douglas Barbour
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>>> Latest books:
>>> Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
>>> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
>>> Wednesdays'
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>> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press
>> _10
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>>> .html
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>>> The day will come when this will be given as a curious illustration
>>> of the blindness of preconceived opinion.
>>>
>>> Charles Darwin.
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>> -----
>> Lawrence Upton
>> Visiting Fellow, Music Dept,
>> Goldsmiths, University of London
>> New Cross, London SE14 6NW
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Lawrence Upton
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Goldsmiths, University of London
New Cross, London SE14 6NW
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