Glad to hear you picked up on the bounce, Doug.
Bill
On Thursday, 25 February 2016, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Well, it took a bounce or two, but it came clear to me, Bill, & a neat
> turn indeed….
>
> Doug
> > On Feb 24, 2016, at 3:56 AM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> > Rows indeed, Pat the tramp, at ground level, at some beaches, so you
> bounce
> > into a dugout pit as it were. At Lorne on the Great Ocean Rd, there maybe
> > some 15-20. Manus Island is just the pits.
> >
> > Bill
> >
> > On Wednesday, 24 February 2016, Patrick McManus <
> > [log in to unmask] <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> >> as an old tramp myself!! gosh do they have rows of trampolines? -is
> this
> >> an Oz thing ?? not seen such in Raynes Park
> >> do they have them on Manus island??
> >>
> >> -----Original Message----- From: Bill Wootton
> >> Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2016 9:05 PM
> >> To: [log in to unmask] <javascript:;>
> >> Subject: Bounce
> >>
> >> Squat bearded
> >> middle-aged man
> >>
> >> loose tan t-shirt hovering
> >> over easy-fit 3/4 pants
> >>
> >> bouncing heavy
> >> much deeper
> >>
> >> than lithe
> >> pre-pubescent girls
> >>
> >> on surrounding tramps
> >> suddenly launches
> >>
> >> inverts
> >> eases through air
> >>
> >> lands perfectly
> >> on the downbeat
> >>
> >> then reverses
> >> the movement
> >>
> >> head over heels
> >> backwards landing
> >>
> >> with similar grace
> >> bounces on
> >>
> >> Latte glasses
> >> clink
> >>
> >> to saucers
> >> in adjacent cafe
> >>
> >> bw
>
> Douglas Barbour
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> 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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