Yes, we can give birth to verse, Pat. I can't remember cold. 8th day straight now of 30 + here.
Bill
On 17/02/2013, at 8:13 PM, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Bill And a lot of women don't!!:-) and a lot of men and that fatherhood
> thingy there are also other things in life -like say writing petry :-0
> Cheers P on a cold sunny morning
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Bill Wootton
> Sent: 15 February 2013 10:01
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Unmother snap
>
> Hard/ How so, Doug? Current Liz unable to be queen of herself you mean?
>
> Pat, we do speak, we chaps, of 'joys' inappropriately, yes, but so do many
> women who want to push the notion that motherliness is all, surely.
>
> Unfather Bill
>
> On 13/02/2013, at 9:52 AM, Douglas Barbour wrote:
>
>> Yeah, & i think the last line's a bit hard on HM.
>>
>> Though the letters do suggest.
>>
>> I like the questioning format, though.
>>
>> Doug
>> On 2013-02-12, at 2:26 PM, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>>
>>> Ah the joys of motherhood!!(often said by men) and we enforce the law
>>> if she does not come up to scratch Patrick non mother
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>>> On Behalf Of Bill Wootton
>>> Sent: 12 February 2013 20:54
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>> Subject: Unmother snap
>>>
>>> Unmother
>>>
>>> Has 'no maternal instinct
>>> whatsoever' says yummy
>>> could-be-granny,
>>>
>>> Helen Mirren.
>>> Of what might this
>>> consist, this instinct?
>>>
>>> A desire to dandy
>>> on the knee
>>> a bouncing babbler?
>>>
>>> To share your chest
>>> nipple by nipple
>>> with tiny progeny?
>>>
>>> To raise?
>>> To sublimate?
>>> To sacrifice?
>>>
>>> To have someone else
>>> sort your sleep?
>>> Let body dictate terms?
>>>
>>> You can be good,
>>> you can be kind,
>>> without having kids.
>>>
>>> Or pets for that matter.
>>> Fair do's to Helen,
>>> Queen of herself.
>>
>> 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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