then there's the drop bears
On 19/10/2012, at 6:29 AM, Bill Wootton wrote:
> Koala avoidance, best thing all round really.
>
> On 18/10/2012, at 11:49 PM, Jill Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Koalas are best kept away from one's person, any point of one's person.
>>
>> They look cute, but are not. And the blokes make very loud growling noises at times.
>>
>> J
>>
>>
>> On 18/10/2012, at 11:14 PM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I have a notional -- archetypal? -- koala bear in my head now. It's
>>> feet are sticking out of my right ear.
>>>
>>> L
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics"
>>> To:
>>> Cc:
>>> Sent:Thu, 18 Oct 2012 23:06:51 +1030
>>> Subject:Re: Snap
>>>
>>> Yes, I know the moving on thing after something doesn't stick,
>>> electronically, and then - in my case - it doesn't matter. You write
>>> then move on.
>>>
>>> The Rolf H thing did occur to me as well, fleetingly
>>>
>>> On 18/10/2012, at 10:55 PM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi Jill
>>>>
>>>> Yes
>>>>
>>>> I think it was Doug wrote about it yesterday and I started a long
>>>> reply that brought in the Opies and god knows what and then
>>> realised
>>>> that I was in the wrong editor -- I forward from one to the other
>>> at
>>>> present and keep doing it. I think I have my own jiscmail server
>>> just
>>>> to send me messages asking who I am
>>>>
>>>> I was thinking that very few games really do involve originality
>>>>
>>>> you learn the words and the actions and you do them
>>>>
>>>> films may throw this into relief when they become source
>>>>
>>>> anyway this morning I found I hadn't got or couldn't find that
>>>> message
>>>>
>>>> i had started to say as I realised that I couldn't send my message
>>>> that I had moved on to speaking of the mother; but as I began to
>>>> polish the line(s) I realised that I didn't need them or rather
>>> that
>>>> they got in the way
>>>>
>>>> or rather they began to turn the poem into a moralistic comment
>>>>
>>>> and there's far too much of that already
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> and I am doing my best not to hum Two little boys by Rolf Harris
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> thanks / best
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> L
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Jill Jones [log in to unmask] [1]
>>>> 09:10 (4 hours ago) Reply
>>>>
>>>> to POETRYETC
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Ah, that ending, that isn't
>>>>
>>>> On 18/10/2012, at 2:16 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Snap
>>>>>
>>>>> Two boy children following mother.
>>>>>
>>>>> One boy utters a few strange words
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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