Also got a sense of dementia, loss of memory, until that final stanza put it in place....
Doug
On 2012-07-18, at 3:42 AM, Bill Wootton wrote:
> I can see how you might have thought of this as ghostly on rereading, Max. I had intended, I suppose the first half of the poem to be a bit Kafkaesque, if that's not being too grand. And then to alter the mood to go a bit bemused/political I suppose.
>
> Analogue/ analog ~ is this like program/me?
>
> Cheers,
> B
>
> On 18/07/2012, at 5:51 PM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> for some time I read this as the utterance of a ghost but at length I realised it was about feeling like a ghost when your landmark vanishes… neat.
>> (is analogue the same as analog?)
>>
>> On 18/07/2012, at 8:38 AM, Bill Wootton wrote:
>>
>>> I've rung the council twice now.
>>> The problem is
>>> I don't live anywhere any more.
>>>
>>> I still seem to inhabit.
>>> I walk through my doors,
>>> enter my rooms,
>>>
>>> even drive on my driveway
>>> but my driveway gives onto
>>> no street.
>>>
>>> Some careless car no doubt,
>>> (Some carless care perhaps)
>>> must have cleaned up the road sign.
>>>
>>> A neighbour saw the pole,
>>> with white sign akimbo,
>>> lying in stones, she said.
>>>
>>> But when I checked,
>>> only the dirt crater remained
>>> as evidence.
>>>
>>> It's been two weeks now.
>>> The crater is closing over,
>>> classification memory dimming.
>>>
>>> Maybe it all starts here.
>>> GPS calls all the shots.
>>> Street signs are so...analogue.
>>>
>>> Bill Wootton
>>> 18 July, 12
>>
>>
>
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