don't be sad
don't get sad
get even tempered
L
On 29 January 2015 at 13:50, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Very sneery then sad
> P without a sneer
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Lawrence Upton
> Sent: 29 January 2015 11:00
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: FW: animals
>
> *No, sneered. Why is this in bold? Oh well* *In so far as - italics? - this
> is based on a real incident; and it is sort of, I assure you that the word
> is sneered. * *Others have smiled in similar circumstances; but not she*
> *Perhaps those who are truly lovers would not; but this was one called
> lover. Not necessarily the same*
>
> *L*
>
>
> On 29 January 2015 at 11:12, Patrick McManus <
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> wrote:
>
> > Smiled?
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Patrick McManus [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: 29 January 2015 10:12
> > To: 'Poetryetc: poetry and poetics'
> > Subject: RE: animals
> >
> > Do lovers sneer? Maybe another word I tentatively wonder pitied?
> > Disdained??
> > dunno
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > On Behalf Of Bill Wootton
> > Sent: 29 January 2015 07:33
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: animals
> >
> > '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
> > >
> >
>
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