....sometimes thanking God/for what they give me, the few poems/that are the
holy spaces of my life. (Vincent Buckley)
On 30/11/12 2:32 PM, "Bill Wootton" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Thanks Jill, for that little gem. I raise the stakes with this George moment
> when he was keen to add to Donovan's Hurdy Gurdy Man:
>
> When the truth gets buried deep/beneath a thousand years of sleep/time demands
> a turn around/and once again the truth is found
>
> As Donovan said when playing it live, 'Yeh, George.'
>
> So Donovan didn't want to upset George's apple cart but the verse never
> appeared on the studio version we all know. We do know it don't we?
>
> Cheers,
> Bill
>
>> "I won't upset the apple cart
>> I only want what I can get Š"
>>
>> lyrics from a rejected White Album George/Beatles track, 'Not Guilty'
>>
>>
>>
>> On 29/11/2012, at 3:38 AM, Randolph Healy wrote:
>>
>>> thanks for this Bill,
>>>
>>> and for your dark horse reminder, Jill.
>>>
>>> any chance of an jpeg of the mug?
>>>
>>> best
>>>
>>> Randolph
>>>
>>> On 28/11/2012 07:09, Bill Wootton wrote:
>>>> Thanks, Jill. I tried to fit a bit of George in. But failed. He is wearing
>>>> a pale blue suit on the mug (the others are all dark). So perhaps it is OK
>>>> to confer nothinghood on him. Actually, different suit, maybe this means he
>>>> is actually DEAD! Oh, yeh, he is. A sartorial suicide if nothing else.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Bill
>>>>
>>>> On 28/11/2012, at 5:20 PM, Jill Jones wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I'm worrying over George - but I guess he always got left out.
>>>>>
>>>>> These days such a thing would be made in China, for all the obvious
>>>>> reasons, not Melbourne.
>>>>>
>>>>> I understand why it is precious :-)
>>>>>
>>>>> J
>>>>> ________________________
>>>>> Jill Jones
>>>>> www.jilljones.com.au
>>>>>
>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>> From: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics"
>>>>> To:
>>>>> Cc:
>>>>> Sent:Wed, 28 Nov 2012 08:12:37 +1100
>>>>> Subject:Beatles Mug snap
>>>>>
>>>>> Ode to a Beatles Mug
>>>>>
>>>>> O tatty sixties busted cup, you'll do,
>>>>> even if hot chocolate you hold no more.
>>>>> Circumscribed by boys with slim ties and suits,
>>>>> your faded plastic still showcases the Fab Four.
>>>>> A florin-sized slit chunk of your wide white
>>>>> lip rim is gone, above gooby Ringo,
>>>>> whose jewel-heavy hands are together laid.
>>>>> Vain, unspectacled Lennon stares below.
>>>>> Paul's polite grey crewneck buries his tie.
>>>>> You still bear your understamp, in Melbourne made.
>>>>>
>>>>> Once a showbag trinket, a throwaway,
>>>>> now collectable, forty eight years on.
>>>>> Each year passing, looks more like Yesterday.
>>>>> We loved The Beatles, especially John,
>>>>> before he Imagined so naively.
>>>>> In a pre-decimal Australia,
>>>>> other mega-pop stars with uncoiffed hair
>>>>> appeared on all sorts of paraphernalia.
>>>>> But it's these mop tops we embraced so keenly
>>>>> and this mug has survived its wear and tear.
>>>>>
>>>>> Bill Wootton
>>>>> 28 November 12
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>
>
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