“There was an old bastard named Lenin
Who did two or three million men in.
That's a lot to have done in
But where he did one in
That old bastard Stalin did ten in.”
― Robert Conquest
Is this the bloke you are talking about, Pat?
Bill
On 26/09/2013, at 5:03 PM, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Bill thanks I seem to have a mental bloc? Block! about apostrophes! Amongst
> other things:-)also I seem to misread a lot these days and have to double
> check-it couldn't possibly have said that!
> Just read Robert Conquest-Bloke and Blokesongs was he really 95 when he
> published it? or were they old poems I enjoyed the content but got rather
> lost here and there -also thrown in foreign quotes confuse this old bloke
> Cheers P
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Bill Wootton
> Sent: 25 September 2013 22:17
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: pat snap (ten years on!) _+-=+_Wednesday, 25 September 2013
>
> I liked particularly 'latticed stretching', Pat. They do withstand, those
> webs, don't they. Now all you need do is remove the apostrophe in line 11
> and Spider will be happy.
>
> Cheers,
> Bill
>
> On 26/09/2013, at 3:04 AM, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Yes,
>>
>> but watch that 'it's'...
>>
>> & welcome to petc, John...
>>
>> Doug
>> On 2013-09-25, at 2:09 AM, "[log in to unmask]"
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>> Nice one Patrick.
>>>
>>> John
>>>
>>>> ----Original Message----
>>>> From:
>>> [log in to unmask]
>>>> Date: 25/09/2013 8:07
>>>> To:
>>> <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> Subj: pat snap (ten years on!) _+-
>>> =+_Wednesday, 25 September 2013
>>>>
>>>> YESTERDAY
>>>>
>>>> yesterday
>>>> by my front
>>> door
>>>> it was just about
>>>> invisible
>>>> but today cool
>>>> with mist
>>>> in the
>>> air
>>>> the cobweb appears
>>>> in it's glory
>>>> a masterpiece
>>>> shining
>>> shimmering
>>>> latticed stretching
>>>> in the
>>>> early morning's
>>>> soft sun
>>>
>>>> pmcmanus
>>>> r389
>>>> hot off the press second drafty
>>
>> Douglas Barbour
>> [log in to unmask]
>>
>> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
>> http://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
>>
>> 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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