I used to be accurate and correct.
Yesterday I wrote there for their, and it took a wee while to remember which is which.
Max
On 15 Aug 2014, at 10:31 am, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I know, I know, Doug. You're talking to the typo king. I was just being a smarty poo. Ironically, there is only one person in the world who makes no typos. He be Max.
>
> Bill
>
>> On 15 Aug 2014, at 7:59 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> No, just my fingers, never getting the typing straight
>>
>> sorru MaX
>>
>> Doug
>>> On Aug 14, 2014, at 3:17 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>> It's alright, Ma was only bleeding.
>>>
>>>> On 15 Aug 2014, at 12:51 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Well, I’d argue that Ma was waxing just a little ironic there, Andrew…
>>>>
>>>> Doug
>>>>> On Aug 13, 2014, at 6:51 PM, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, great poem, Max. But I dispute the last statement, 'beauty is youth,
>>>>> youth beauty'. In this old town, there's beauty up and down the main
>>>>> street, getting out of dusty old utes and paddock-scented 4x4s - there's
>>>>> even a particular beauty in gnarled old trees leaning out over Murray
>>>>> River. But, of course, there's also a frisky beauty in the girls flirting
>>>>> with the boys before they all race off to the big smoke ... Our optometrist
>>>>> is here but twice a week and she takes shit from no man!
>>>>>
>>>>> Andrew
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 14 August 2014 09:53, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yes I like the beauty zeroing down to 'the woman's' pupils, Max. The light
>>>>>> and dark works well too. Not sure of enchantment/enhancement but unlike
>>>>>> you, Pat, happy with the rounding off with a bit of a Keatsian flourish.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Bill
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 14 Aug 2014, at 1:48 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> AH, but Max, your 'beauty' comes on the heels of a bunch of such terms,
>>>>>> which as they pile up become somewhat concrete, it feels, that being the
>>>>>> mystery of language at work. And I really enjoy the sly
>>>>>> pseudo-self-deprecation at work in the poem, its humour...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Doug
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Aug 13, 2014, at 4:35 AM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Pupils
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The woman at the opticians,
>>>>>>>> who takes me into her dark room
>>>>>>>> for intimate transactions,
>>>>>>>> is exquisite - fine-featured,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> slow to smile, elegant of hand
>>>>>>>> and hip. She shines her light
>>>>>>>> and herself deep into my eyes.
>>>>>>>> saying 'you have small pupils'!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> (My lack of success with women
>>>>>>>> explained by yet another reason!)
>>>>>>>> I begin a sly campaign
>>>>>>>> to survey her pupils' fluctuation -
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> now large in the dark, now less
>>>>>>>> in the well-lit corridor, smallest
>>>>>>>> out in the public space where frames
>>>>>>>> are chosen at great expense
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> to enhance one's chances
>>>>>>>> of glamorous enchantment.
>>>>>>>> She's put on spectacles herself,
>>>>>>>> as if her looks need some enhancement.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Fair girl, unframed is best. Fair
>>>>>>>> young men, fair children - smile on.
>>>>>>>> Our eyes are all on you, as yours
>>>>>>>> are on each other. We were young once,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> though scarcely knew it. Old now, leaning
>>>>>>>> back - yearning back - at our sunset hour
>>>>>>>> it dawns on us: Beauty is youth, youth
>>>>>>>> beauty, - that is all we know on earth.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Douglas Barbour
>>>>>>> [log in to unmask]
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 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
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Andrew
>>>>> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
>>>>
>>>> Douglas Barbour
>>>> [log in to unmask]
>>>>
>>>> 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
>>
>> Douglas Barbour
>> [log in to unmask]
>>
>> 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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