Ah I almost love it. My first serious girlfriend (chortle, chortle) hooked up with a guy who threw her out a year later, at the same time I got engaged. So she tried to drown her sorrows through a bottle of her daddy's Seconals. She bungled her suicide attempt; sort of an Alfred Alvarez bungle. I last heard from her once afterwards, but never again. The boyfriend is the one I think I mentioned--he froze to death after imbibing enough LSD to stone out an army, and froze to death trying to walk in the snow from the Bronx to Connecticut. He was a good man, albeit a goddamn fool.
Povera Barbara. There's a poem hidden in here after over 40 years, if I can only let it find me.
Ken
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From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Bill Wootton
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Subject: Re: What Katy Did next
Thanks, Doug. Ken, another country perhaps but I like to think Katy is still socking them down somewhere and giving it out to the deserving bastardry.
Bill
> On 21 Mar 2014, at 2:33 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> I agree about the ballad-like feel of the piece, Bill. To keep that throughout...
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> Another country, another time, eh...
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> Doug
>> On Mar 19, 2014, at 4:35 AM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Thanks, Pat, Andrew, Ken. I felt that too, Ken about the latter lines getting too leggy and will work on them. Katy I have not clapped eyes on for twenty years at least. The last time was at a mutual friend's place who was staging a croquet party on his extensive back lawn. It was a BYO bottle of spirits. Katy's new boyfriend collapsed over a table of bottles some time during the night. Ambulance involved.
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>> Bill
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>>> On 19 Mar 2014, at 8:25 am, Kenneth Wolman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>> I'm concerned only by the shift to long lines after so many
>>> ballad-like lines before. For the rest, it's lovely. I've had a Katy
>>> or two in my life, and this makes me reminiscent.
>>>
>>> Ken
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