Thanks, Max, Pat, Doug. Re-reading I see I have created a limerick more
than a ballad.
Bill
On Thursday, 18 February 2016, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Oh you Aussie bush-balladeers!
>
> Doug
> > On Feb 17, 2016, at 2:21 AM, Patrick McManus <
> [log in to unmask] <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> > haha P am gloomy this morning cheered me -mooting
> >
> > -----Original Message----- From: Bill Wootton Sent: Tuesday, February
> 16, 2016 8:45 PM To: [log in to unmask] <javascript:;> Subject:
> Ballad of the blowfly
> > From dungheap to desktop he flew,
> > well known to him the route.
> > But then he paused, his eyes adrift;
> > which way he faced was moot.
> >
> > bw
>
> Douglas Barbour
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> https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
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> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations
> 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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