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On 06/02/2013, at 10:45 PM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> I think bum wraps are for cannibals
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> L
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics"
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> Sent:Wed, 6 Feb 2013 22:43:32 +1100
> Subject:Re: snap
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> I'm but fair sized myself at 5, 7 & 3/4 but counting the stoop I
> might have managed some eye to eye with the Yorkster, pre bum rap at
> least.
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> B
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> On 06/02/2013, at 9:14 PM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
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>> I say fair-sized all the time of all sorts of things.
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>> The Twisted King (no relation to the Fisher King) had a good diet,
>> they say, so he might have been expected to go higher than many As
>> a man of some time 5, 9 and a quarter I would of course look down
> on
>> him
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>> though I really don't think I'd have wanted to shove a sword up his
>> bottom
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>> glad you like it
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>> L
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics"
>> To:
>> Cc:
>> Sent:Wed, 6 Feb 2013 20:13:14 +1100
>> Subject:Re: snap
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>> fair-sized, this is only said of fish, isn't it, Lawrence. The
>> recently unearthed twisted king at 5' 8" might, by 5-600 odd year
>> standards, be said to have been so but no one did, did they. anyway
>> not fair enough, epecially only 0.5sworth for choosy chien. liked
> the
>> salty picture presented.
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>> Bill
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>> On 06/02/2013, at 4:44 PM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
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>>> Crossing the low dune to the beach, the dog
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>>> turned west. That seemed deliberate. I gave
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>>> her some slack; and was pulled, following, to see
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>>> many gulls in gaggle at the head, a spit,
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>>> and the gulls were spitting! so, possibilities
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>>> of beached fish. As we neared, they all skittered
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>>> and rose; the dog leapt into a big rush --
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>>> a fair-sized southern whiting pecked half clean
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>>> on gull-foot-trampled sand, and she galloping off --
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>>> And seemed reluctant to return. At last
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>>> came back to see what I was pointing to.
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>>> She sniffed but was unsure. Too much spattering
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>>> of grit? It never bothered her before --
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>>> I bent down, inhaling; and lifted it;
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>>> half fish, its bottom side still unblemished,
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>>> smelling fresh to me; tossed it into waves,
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>>> the dog after it, jumping in, sniffing;
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>>> and, after some minutes, she thrust her head
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>>> underwater, and pulled it out, dropped it
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>>> at the sea edge and danced away and back and
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>>> around but never touched the corpse again.
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>>> Richard Kessling / Lawrence Upton
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