I thought immediately of the Bishop poem, too, Max.
But I like your sense of the lost thing's need here, Patrick...
Doug
On Nov 12, 2014, at 8:16 AM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> and then there’s
>
> One Art
> Elizabeth Bishop, 1911 - 1979
> The art of losing isn’t hard to master;
> so many things seem filled with the intent
> to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
>
> Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
> of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
> The art of losing isn’t hard to master.
>
> Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
> places, and names, and where it was you meant
> to travel. None of these will bring disaster.
>
> I lost my mother’s watch. And look! my last, or
> next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
> The art of losing isn’t hard to master.
>
> I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
> some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
> I miss them, but it wasn’t a disaster.
>
> —Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
> I love) I shan’t have lied. It’s evident
> the art of losing’s not too hard to master
> though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.
>
> On Nov 12, 2014, at 11:53 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Ha indeed, L. Trust DA. Biroid! Wonderful.
>>
>> B
>>
>>
>>
>>> On 12 Nov 2014, at 10:09 pm, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Ha. There's a remark somewhere in Douglas Adams that biros escape to a
>>> place where they can have a more fulfilling biroid kind of life. I quote
>>> badly, but that's the force of it, more or less L
>>>
>>> On 12 November 2014 09:11, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> LOST
>>>>
>>>> when things
>>>> are lost
>>>> keys -biros
>>>> pens purses
>>>> and other
>>>> small things
>>>> it is better
>>>> not to look
>>>> look for them
>>>> not at once
>>>> for they
>>>> may need
>>>> to feel
>>>> feel lost
>>>> feel space
>>>> for a while
>>>> then later
>>>> suddenly
>>>> they happily
>>>> reappear
>>>> returned!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> pmcmanus
>>>> r636
>>>
>
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