Finally back from the mountains, & able to take some time on line: I agree with Jill & others, & like this version.
Doug
On 2012-06-14, at 2:29 AM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
> This is the piece slightly brushed over:
>
>
> Today our local firebug failed again
> to burn down these flats, although the floor
> alarms failed too, so most of us we slept
> through, at 4 a.m. and at 7.40 I walked
> across 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 alerts for Lincoln
> and Ludlow and here and found myself
> treading e-mail and old news and wrangles
> as if still watching mother on the verandah
> squeezing old clothes under rolled wheels
> and bought an Easy Stitch sewing machine
> and some used brown shoes in Wigston
> after how on the road to the 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."
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