I'm happy with that
L
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Sent:Thu, 31 Jan 2013 12:09:51 +1100
Subject:Re: Liberty
I had a yacht in mind - well a large sailing vessal called Liberty.
And now
it is parked in a museum. There are viewers, not sailors, now. Just a
personal interpretation ... Andrew
On 31 January 2013 04:40, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> I like what I think is the mix of the poet's thinking about & the
> advertising copy he's reacting to (whether found or constructed).
>
> Doug
> On 2013-01-30, at 12:08 AM, Lawrence Upton
> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Liberty -
> >
> > a simple word,
> >
> > technologies of it,
> >
> > sea stories;
> >
> > water seepings… the name of somethingh
> >
> > that I can't find,
> >
> > colours…
> >
> > no one's here -
> >
> > as it fled, Liberty pressed against conquests.
> >
> > Unbearable edges emerged from the undulations
> >
> > of the encyclopaedia, images ranked.
> >
> > Link to curb your desires. Prices will go up
> >
> > any seafarer's brain. Breath, severance,
> >
> > the satisfaction of inflicting pain.
> >
> > Believe nothing else. Death
> >
> > the museum of incredible prices.
> >
> > The consumer is convenient,
> >
> > informed and enjoyed,
> >
> > a listener. The prices will
> >
> > churn the dead.
> >
> > Meaning is a pathway,
> >
> > space disbanding,
> >
> > grief without singing;
> >
> > the body, cold now, bleeding;
> >
> > enlightenment frailty.
> >
> > Lose all power over the intricate present.
> >
> >
> >
>
> Douglas Barbour
> [log in to unmask]
>
> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations &
Continuation 2
> (UofAPress).
> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
>
> Something else is out there
> godamnit
>
> And I want to hear it
>
> C.D.Wright
>
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Andrew
http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
'Undercover of Lightness'
http://walleahpress.com.au/recent-publications.html
'Shikibu Shuffle'
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