Cheers Bill keep a look out for the lonelybpen maybe at a poetry event !!!
Yes ink/biro first for me am too slow a typist for keyboarding:-)
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From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Bill Wootton
Sent: 26 November 2014 08:41
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Subject: Re: pat snap yes another one! 655 _"^*+-_ "^*+-_ "^*+-_
Ah, so, Pat, can we presume that your works are transcribed from pen and ink
to keyboard characters? Looking forward to Poet's Pen's Revenge.
Bill
> On 26 Nov 2014, at 7:11 pm, Patrick McManus
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> POET'S PEN
>
> I am his pen
> a fine old
> trusty stainless
> steel nibbed
> faithful workhorse
> I write all his poems
> but does he care?
> do I get a thanks?
> no he let's me run out!
> then gets in a state
> never cleans my nib
> never cares for me
> I try to correct
> his worse failings
> don't talk to me
> about his grammar
> appalling spelling
> and all the rest
> I never blot
> have never blotted
> even when shaken
> in his vile temper
> I've had enough!
> I just feel like
> leaving myself
> behind at one of
> his interminable
> boring tedious
> poetry workshops
> someone might
> pick me up!
> take me home!
> appreciate!
> cherish!
> love me!
>
>
> pmcmanus
> r637
>
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