Out of the ‘its’ situation is good, I guess.
How they are seen or see?
Doug
On Mar 18, 2015, at 10:47 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> They stare at each other concentratedly
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> and intensely. They might be having sex
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> if only their faces were visible.
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> They are at war, in small, over the costs
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> of last night's supper: Who paid for whom?
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> Each is thinking of hitting its lover.
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> She's just cross; but he's becoming nervous
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> and shuffles his big arse on the chair loudly,
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> farting as he does so. It makes her laugh.
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> Each sees the other as ridiculous
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> and he laughs back, avoiding humility.
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> Later, much later, they'll undisagree.
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Douglas Barbour
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Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2 (UofAPress).
Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
There is no life that does not rise
melodic from scales of the marvelous.
To which our grief refers.
Robert Duncan.
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