Like it all except toothless…
Max
On Oct 16, 2014, at 5:05 AM, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Yeah, liked that, too…
>
> Doug
> On Oct 15, 2014, at 10:31 AM, Jill Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Toothlessed is a good word.
>> ________________________Jill Jones www.jilljones.com.au
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics"
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>> Cc:
>> Sent:Wed, 15 Oct 2014 07:42:33 +1100
>> Subject:Negotiating with Management
>>
>> Dreamt a snake would clearly
>>
>> cut me off before I wriggled
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>> across itchy dry paspalum
>>
>> to the safety of brick steps
>>
>> on Grandma Beat's front veranda.
>>
>> So doubled back to confront,
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>> to parlay. I'm only eight.
>>
>> Can't we cut a deal here?
>>
>> My Bendigo Crossroads.
>>
>> Negotiated.
>>
>> And that pact has dogged me
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>> in all subsequent dealings
>>
>> with authority. Sure, I remain
>>
>> unbitten but whatever that
>>
>> offer comprised, toothlessed me.
>>
>> In some ways it's been good.
>>
>> I know I'll never be snake.
>>
>> But the pound of flesh exacted
>>
>> set up a chain of compromise
>>
>> that feels dirty to this day.
>>
>>
>>
>
> Douglas Barbour
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> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2 (UofAPress).
> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
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> that we are only
> as we find out we are
>
> Charles Olson
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