Civilisation?
OK
Whatever it is or thinks it is, it is being intruded upon by the domestic
as in domestic servant
This poem is about as far as it goes for itself, but it may be, may well
be, the beginning or near the beginning of a sequence. Yes, certainly, to
the feeling you have.
On 27 August 2014 19:02, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> and civilization is generalized....
>
> Seeing it as a beginning, L. The feeling of not quite being there or able...?
>
> D
> On Aug 27, 2014, at 10:27 AM, Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > I think this way, too, as one must (the optimism, Bill and Lawrence)!
> >
> > Nice.
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 5:04 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Ha! It may be all we have
> >>
> >> L
> >>
> >>
> >> On 27 August 2014 12:47, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Loud buckets, I suspect, L, will trump markets in the end.
> >>>
> >>> Bill
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, Aug 27th, 2014 at 7:16 PM, Lawrence Upton <
> >> [log in to unmask]>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> It is half past two in the afternoon.
> >>>>
> >>>> Mechanisms bang away. People scurry.
> >>>>
> >>>> What are we to do? There isn't enough
> >>>>
> >>>> money to continue, they say; nor funds
> >>>>
> >>>> for necessary growth. We are held here;
> >>>>
> >>>> and restrained. We shall be beaten. Markets
> >>>>
> >>>> decide the quality of our justice;
> >>>>
> >>>> our civilisation in general.
> >>>>
> >>>> There is neither time; nor talent.
> >>>>
> >>>> The machines upon which we have relied break
> >>>>
> >>>> and have not been much repaired. What to do?
> >>>>
> >>>> Someone tips hot soapy water across
> >>>>
> >>>> an entrance foyer. Clatter of metal;
> >>>>
> >>>> the handle swings over, banging against
> >>>>
> >>>> a step, and slips out of her hands, tumbling.
> >>>>
> >>>> Part of the floor pattern chips. She tries to
> >>>>
> >>>> go quietly, picks up sideways the loud bucket.
> >>>>
> >>>> A droning voice becomes audible, separable.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>
> >
>
> 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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