I was going to say that, especially about those 2 lines, Jill. How they curve, & we do too. The rest the drive from that curve, headlong, so to speak…
Doug
On Aug 4, 2015, at 11:02 PM, Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Jill, this really hits home, notably with "Watch how your imagination /
> copies your imagination"
> Wonderful!
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> On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 7:22 PM, Jill Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> THE GODDAM NIGHT
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>> Giddy night is more than a container
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>> The sources of stupidity lie within
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>> Watch how your imagination copies
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>> your imagination
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>> Yes, it’s the night, the goddam night
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>> full of kitschy previews hard-wired
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>> to soap plots and merciless roundabouts
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>> of a house, a saucerful of spectres
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>> an unmemorable mess of misalignments
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>> of thought and action, though it seems plausible
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>> It’s merely vertiginous, yes, even a dream
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>> of falling, but at least for once before you fall
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>> you realise you don’t care about the toss
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>> Waking life might be life, life might be what it is
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>> you fall over it enough
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>> knock the cup from the table
>> ________________________
>> Jill Jones www.jilljones.com.au
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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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