Trench coat too cool, Doug, although perhaps there might be a dash of
Dashiell Hammet in him. Thanks also Max.
Bill
On Thursday, 24 March 2016, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Not a trench coat, Bill?
>
> I agree with Max, nicely observed, caught.
>
> Doug
> > On Mar 23, 2016, at 2:40 AM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> > Perhaps you're right, Pat and I have finished on a mean note. They just
> > seem a little daggy, the stickies, as if, were they to be clothed, they
> > would wear flares.
> >
> > Bill
> >
> > On Wednesday, 23 March 2016, Patrick McManus <
> [log in to unmask] <javascript:;>>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> thanks Bill the Phasmid honoured---- but no frump they say and certainly
> >> not frumpled -more steady easy going -unhasty -balanced -content-sane!
> >> cheers P
> >>
> >> -----Original Message----- From: Bill Wootton
> >> Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2016 8:46 PM
> >> To: [log in to unmask] <javascript:;>
> >> Subject: Stick insect sighting
> >>
> >> A balsa origami
> >> suspended
> >> in an invisible web,
> >>
> >> how can this spindly
> >> flat lightweight, propped
> >> under roof eave
> >>
> >> be a breathing creature?
> >> Are they two feelers
> >> prodding air
> >>
> >> or is that a split
> >> scorpion fan-tail?
> >> For what
> >>
> >> does it wait
> >> with such precise
> >> purchase?
> >>
> >> O Phasmid,
> >> you fabulous
> >> frump.
> >>
> >> bw
>
> Douglas Barbour
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> https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
>
> 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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