Good. I'm on to something. Back-channel any really unpleasant feelings; I
may be able to use them L
On 10 September 2014 18:09, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> L Sounds like how I feel today cheers aged P
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Lawrence Upton
> Sent: 10 September 2014 13:41
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Aged Elidius
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> I am now almost without energy.
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> Sometimes I twitch! Even walk a little.
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> But then I'm like an ageing pet, spending
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> much of its life resting or quite asleep.
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> I say I'm well, lying in my own dirt,
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> keeping the truth hidden by camouflage.
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> I am without address or voice; will less;
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> no more than light upon a rock, a glint
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> without the power of a spark, flameless
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> yet self-consuming; that which might have been -
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> as leaves may roll themselves, fall, crumble
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> to dust, not even knowing combustion
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