Thanks, Canuck Doug. Glad you got there eventually.
Bill
On Wed, Jul 16th, 2014 at 7:25 AM, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> So very Oz (& of course so many other places not Americas), Bill. I read
> ‘cricket’ in the title as the bug, of course, being canuck. Got it
> eventually…
>
> Doug
> On Jul 15, 2014, at 5:21 AM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > Cricket waiters
> >
> > Waitresses in black shifts, working shifts
> > and white-shirted, black-dacked waiters
> > in restaurants, channelling cricketers.
> >
> > All action, poise and balance one minute,
> > before movement arrested, orders taken,
> > arms shouldered and then ... the waiting
> >
> > for the next delivery, like batsmen who launch
> > into strokes, tear off down the pitch, then stop,
> > pause, before facing up again. Chin to chin.
> >
> > And in down time, apparent affability reigns.
> > Unlike in the kitchen which is pure rugby,
> > full-on elbow grease till the bell rings.
> >
> > bw
> >
>
> Douglas Barbour
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>
> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2
> (UofAPress).
> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
>
> Something else is out there
> godamnit
>
> And I want to hear it
>
> C.D.Wright
>
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