Ho ho, glad you cleared that up, Bill! Andrew
On 25 July 2013 08:13, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Trying to spell it out in the end, Doug. Otherwise no one got it. I bought
> a new car. It's an automatic. All my previous cars have been stick shift
> manuals. So my left leg is now out to pasture, if you will, in the driving
> stakes. And it feels odd. Like some sort of betrayal almost. And I thought
> I would mask the entire affair in terms of political betrayal.
>
> 'Limb' seemed easier to rhyme than 'leg' is all.
>
> Bill
>
> On 25/07/2013, at 1:12 AM, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> > For my lost Left Limb?
> >
> > I wonder, Bill (& what le to this anyway?).
> >
> > Doug
> > On 2013-07-23, at 4:14 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Retirement of the Left
> >> (a manual partnership dissolved)
> >>
> >> Once a vital member
> >> now lolls on the slack,
> >> jabbing ineffectively
> >> or prancing on the mat.
> >>
> >> In the automatic era
> >> the Left does not a thing.
> >> Services dispensed with,
> >> now the Right is king.
> >>
> >> Acceleration's easy,
> >> Take-offs on a whim.
> >> But whither opportunity
> >> for my Left Limb?
> >>
> >> bw
> >> 24.7.13
> >
> > Douglas Barbour
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> > http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
> > http://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
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> > Latest books:
> > Continuations & Continuations 2 (with Sheila E Murphy)
> > http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=962
> > Recording Dates
> > (Rubicon Press)
> >
> > Art is always the replacing of indifference by attention.
> >
> > Guy Davenport
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Andrew
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