'digging out old hurts' has stayed with me - for both scenes ... Andrew
On 27 March 2014 02:52, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> University libraries, at least some, still take books, but it's a slowly
> losing game Max.
>
> And that's sad.
>
> But keep the papers for the time being, eh?
>
> An hour a week sounds about right, & sounds here...
>
> Doug
> On Mar 25, 2014, at 8:03 PM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> > Self-Storage
> >
> >
> > For her weekly hour or so
> > of therapy - digging out
> > old hurts, seeking strength,
> > I drop her off in plush Brighton.
> >
> > Flat Moorabbin's further on.
> > I check myself in at spartan
> > Spot On Storage where we rent
> > two padlocked cubes, packed deep.
> >
> > Here in cardboard cartons
> > piled high is my paper past,
> > mostly reading matter, books,
> > letters, lecture-scripts, notes.
> >
> > I have an hour to search,
> > a lifetime to suss out -
> > reminders, surprises,
> > old heartbreak, old losses.
> >
> > An hour is not enough -
> > well, an hour a week so far
> > has got me past bucketsful
> > of over-brewed nostalgia
> >
> > into projects aborted,
> > dreams flowered then fouled up,
> > hopeful relationships faded.
> > Was nothing completed?
> >
> > Had I read all these books,
> > what a know-all I'd be!
> > Why keep them still? boxed!
> > Let them burden whomever
> >
> > I can foist them off on.
> > But these days, book addicts
> > are few; dealers, libraries - tight.
> > As for my notebooks, letters,
> >
> > burn them? bury them?
> > all that wishful thinking,
> > old hurts. No self-therapist,
> > I padlock my self-storage again.
> >
>
> Douglas Barbour
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