I am wild about this poem. Speaks volumes.
On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 10:49 AM, Patrick McManus <
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> Are there young people in
> poetryetc????????????????????????????????????????:-)
>
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> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Douglas Barbour
> Sent: 22 July 2015 15:56
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> People will enjoy hearing this, especially the elder set, Pat. As it piles
> them up….
>
> Doug
> On Jul 22, 2015, at 3:44 AM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
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> > Good on you, Octo-Pat. Or maybe you should patent that mirror!
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Bill
> >
> > On 22/07/2015, at 6:35 PM, Patrick McManus wrote:
> >
> >> LOOK
> >>
> >> that cold
> >> bleak morning
> >> facing soon
> >> becoming an
> >> octogenarian
> >> he took
> >> a long hard
> >> critical look
> >> at himself
> >> in the cruel
> >> unforgiving
> >> fly specked
> >> cracked mirror
> >> with it's harsh
> >> bright neon
> >> overhead light
> >> and was forced
> >> reluctantly
> >> to admit
> >> how really
> >> absolutely
> >> terrific he
> >> looked
> >>
> >>
> >> pmcmanus
> >> r814
> >> I rather enjoyed using the clichés here -do they work?
> >> then giving unexpected finish :-)
> >>
> >>
>
> Douglas Barbour
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> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2
> (UofAPress).
> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
>
> Done in by creation itself.
>
> I mean the gods. Not us. Well us too.
> The gods moved into books. Who wrote the books?
> We wrote the books. In whose dream, then are we dreaming?
>
> Robert Kroetsch.
>
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