Thank you, Bill. I dashed it off very quickly, and definitely hoped to
convey that sense of movement you find. And the sun deprivation!
On 13 June 2012 21:35, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> David,
>
> I like this a lot. The accretion of events unjudged, unblemished even by
> full stop. The sense of hurtling movement, sun deprivation, tentative
> relationship building.
>
> Bill
>
> On 14/06/2012, at 4:15 AM, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > Today our local firebug failed again
> >
> > to burn down these flats, although the floor
> >
> > alarms failed too, and most of us slept
> >
> > through it, at 4 a.m. and at 7.40 I walked
> >
> > through the campus down the Mill Lane
> >
> > to the surgery with you and your chair
> >
> > holding my own scrip for Vitamin D
> >
> > and ducking as if the cloud-ridden sky
> >
> > were a ceiling overhead only to pore
> >
> > later over weather reports for Lincoln
> >
> > and Newark and here and found myself
> >
> > treading e-mail and old news and wrangles
> >
> > as if watching my mother on the verandah
> >
> > squeezing our clothes under rolled wheels
> >
> > and bought a easy stitch sewing machine
> >
> > and some brown shoes in Wigston
> >
> > after how on the road to Richard Attenborough
> >
> > you told me how you got drunk and raped
> >
> > last week and that so far was this day
> >
> >
> > --
> > David Joseph Bircumshaw
> > "We are shallow, mababaw ang kaligayahan."
> > -* F. Sionil José*
> > Website and A Chide's Alphabet
> > http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
> > The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
> > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw
> > twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave
> > blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/
> >
> >
>
--
David Joseph Bircumshaw
"We are shallow, mababaw ang kaligayahan."
-* F. Sionil José*
Website and A Chide's Alphabet
http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw
twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave
blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/
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