My word, thanks
L
On 29 January 2015 at 10:22, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Thanks, Lawrence, a poem which got me thinking - that's a good thing (I've
> been lazy recently!).
>
> Andrew
>
> On 29 January 2015 at 18:32, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > 'danked' as in unpleasantly moistened, I take it, L. Like it. Reminds me,
> > the poem I mean, of something my wife said to me this morning, dismissing
> > those who would claim that suffering in humans ennobles. If their God
> > exists, would He say that it is good for animals? Or if, she went on, if
> He
> > is omnipotent, why so design humans? Could have come up with a better
> model.
> >
> > B
> >
> >
> > > On 28 Jan 2015, at 11:58 pm, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > I said once, to myself
> > >
> > > or perhaps to my lover,
> > >
> > > that being close to animals
> > >
> > > will make us more human:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > she sneered at me
> > >
> > > for speaking to a donkey - conversationally -
> > >
> > > on our way to eat,
> > >
> > > my hands danked by donkey tongue...
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > it is two way, not magic -
> > >
> > > a rabbit's foot does nothing
> > >
> > > but lames the rabbit --
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > seek out animals
> > >
> > > like one who lost them --
> > >
> > > non-speakers
> > >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Andrew
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>
> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/new-from-aboveground-press-shikibu.html
>
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