I get a bookmaker
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-----Original Message-----
From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Bill Wootton
Sent: 26 March 2013 22:12
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: New York Blues mini-snap
You know you have
hopped hemispheres
when you type in
'Be...' on your server
and what pops up,
instead of the expected
Bendigo Bank,
is Beyonce,
Ben Stiller
and some sort
of ice cream brand.
On Sat, Mar 23rd, 2013 at 1:54 AM, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Oh, okay, you want the pause, whereas I was thinking it read without
> any (ie, sans comma).
See what you mean, Doug but I'll go with announcing what it means to be
underground. Sorry for slowness to reply to you and have lost Judy's
comment. poetryetc postings tricky it seems out of Australia. Hope this
works,
Bill
>
> Doug
> On 2013-03-21, at 7:24 AM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Perhaps you are right, Doug. A semi colon may provide better the
> anticipatory pause needed. But I have used
> > one in the third line which would make another in the fourth look
> clunky. Perhaps a full stop to close the third
> > line.
> > Pat, no smell and I seem to have led you astray. This is no subway.
> Watsonia station is an above-ground train
> > station that lies in what we call a 'cutting', so below surrounding
> road/land level.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Bill
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 21st, 2013 at 9:13 AM, Douglas Barbour
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> >> I like the short drive of it all, but wonder if the first comma in
> >> the last line is working as you wish it to...
> >>
> >> Doug
> >> On 2013-03-20, at 10:35 AM, Patrick McManus
> >> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Bill did it smell in the subway?? (or is it only over here??) P
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics
> >>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> >> On
> >>> Behalf Of Bill Wootton
> >>> Sent: 20 March 2013 15:11
> >>> To: [log in to unmask]
> >>> Subject: Watsonia Station snap
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Ramping off-level down to Watsonia station via concrete returning
> >>> zigzag lands you on asphalt.
> >>> Join the jostle, ready for relay to more crowdplay; underneath you
> >>> are, sub-clay, off-street, car-less.
> >>>
> >>> Bill Wootton
> >>>
> >>
> >> Douglas Barbour
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> Continuations & Continuations 2 (with Sheila E Murphy)
> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=962
> Recording Dates
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