Oh, Max and Mrs Max! What a sight this conjures up! Ha ha haa ...
And, Ken. life without risks is a dull life indeed. Just check out the
pedestrian souls of the suburbs ...
Andrew
On 31 May 2013 05:56, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Definitely broadens minds etc, travel does, Max. sharp turn there &
> laughter at this end..
>
> Doug
> On 2013-05-30, at 10:15 AM, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > It's that canned heat!!
> > p
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> > Behalf Of Kenneth Wolman
> > Sent: 30 May 2013 14:17
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: travel snap
> >
> > On The Road Again
> >
> > No more trips to South Jersey,
> > no hegira to Pennsylvania,
> > this one is to Portlandia
> >
> > and I'm scared half to death.
> > Men my age are not supposed to
> > go out into the wilderness
> >
> > But here I am, 6:35 PM
> > Monday night, starting a three days'
> > journey into darkness
> >
> > which may yet yield the candlepower
> > of light instead of a curse.
> >
> >
> > On May 30, 2013, at 9:01 AM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> >> Travelling to Seoul
> >> we'd booked a hotel:
> >> Hotel Time.
> >>
> >> When we get there - well,
> >> it's the Good Time Hotel.
> >> We're shown our room
> >>
> >> and left alone.
> >> My wife withdraws
> >> to the bathroom.
> >>
> >> Look at this, comes her call -
> >> we see, attached
> >> to the toilet bowl,
> >>
> >> an electronic control -
> >> the bowl functions
> >> as bidet as well!
> >>
> >> I leave her to it.
> >> Next minute a scream -
> >> she's pressed a button
> >>
> >> while the lid is up
> >> and water sprays
> >> bathroom and wife.
> >>
> >> The likes of us
> >> approves of bidets.
> >> Slow we may be
> >>
> >> to learn new tricks.
> >> Trial and error
> >> exposed us as hicks
> >>
> >> in the great city
> >> of Seoul
> >> at the Good Time Hotel.
> >
>
> 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
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