Ha ha, loved the stories emanating from the poem! I had thoughts and
memories too, but they were more of the lewd variety - Ajh, where are all
the girls of yesteryear? :-)
Randy of Corowa
On 20 March 2014 07:43, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Poor Dave indeed, Ken. That's a hell of a trip. The guy at the croquet
> party got sliced up a bit. It was not a Gatsby affair. Shorts and t-shirts
> but someone did rattle up a croquet set from somewhere. I dimly recall a
> goat being tied up somewhere in the middle of the croquet 'field'. Of the
> butting variety.
>
> B
>
> > On 19 Mar 2014, at 10:22 pm, Kenneth Wolman <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> > That's not as funny as it sound. Sort of like a Gatsby part, though. My
> > first serious girlfriend moved on to a guy who, several years later,
> froze
> > to death trying to walk from NYC to Connecticut. He was somewhat under
> the
> > influence of a combination of chemicals that began with LSD and went from
> > there. Poor Dave.
> >
> > Ken
> > old survivor of self-inflicted shit
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> > Behalf Of Bill Wootton
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2014 6:35 AM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: What Katy Did next
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Bill
> >
> >>> On 19 Mar 2014, at 8:25 am, Kenneth Wolman <[log in to unmask]>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> 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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Andrew
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