Thanks, Andrew. Deep enough for the moment.
Bill
On Thu, 17 Nov 2016 at 11:40 AM, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Really good, Bill. And don't lighten up just for us! If y're in a dark
> stream, go deeper.
>
> Andrew
>
> On 17 November 2016 at 08:22, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > Thanks Doug, and for the Levertov. Seeking silver now.
> >
> > Bill
> >
> > On Thu, 17 Nov 2016 at 3:48 AM, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Agree with the others, Bill. What we feel.
> > >
> > > 'alone on the road’ as Levertov once put it…
> > >
> > > Seems especially this year for people our generation(s)…
> > >
> > > Doug
> > > > On Nov 16, 2016, at 4:45 AM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Thanks Sheila, Patrick. I'll lighten up next week. Promise.
> > > >
> > > > Bil
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, 16 Nov 2016 at 8:39 PM, Patrick McManus <
> > > > [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> Dark stuff Bill -P awaiting the phone call as well- but have a good
> > day
> > > >> or evening as it is out in Oz
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> On 15/11/2016 21:41, Bill Wootton wrote:
> > > >>> Facedeath
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Flip open the folding metal cover,
> > > >>> another coil shuffler announcement.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Who'll be first with news of gloom?
> > > >>> There goes Bowie to the stars for good.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Seems so long ago already. Now dapper
> > > >>> Len from Montreal is gone. And hairy
> > > >>>
> > > >>> southerner Leon, famous for 1 2 3 4ing
> > > >>> at the death of Cocker's Cry me a river,
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Joe no longer rasping either.
> > > >>> All singers must pass of course,
> > > >>>
> > > >>> even Beatles, so why
> > > >>> does it seem so much more
> > > >>>
> > > >>> intrusive to hear of passings
> > > >>> on social media? Anti-social tabloids
> > > >>>
> > > >>> more natural doomsters? Maybe death
> > > >>> is social. Gets people talking.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Now part of the package is who posts
> > > >>> the death and how they feel.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Twittepigraphs abound. Public lives,
> > > >>> public deaths, public grief notices.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> But when you see in typed letters
> > > >>> on a social screen on your lap:
> > > >>>
> > > >>> - a close friend is suddenly dead -
> > > >>>
> > > >>> your mind mad reels,
> > > >>> that's not a way to know.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> But maybe it is now. Can we
> > > >>> all expect the phone call
> > > >>>
> > > >>> or face to face? Public gloomsaying
> > > >>> at least saves sayers some.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> bw
> > > >>
> > >
> > > Douglas Barbour
> > > [log in to unmask]
> > > https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
> > >
> > > Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations &
> Continuations
> > > 2 (UofAPress).
> > > Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
> > >
> > > Venerable Optimist
> > >
> > > He saw the dark as a ragged garment
> > > spread out to air.
> > > Through its rents and moth-holes
> > > the silver light came pouring.
> > >
> > > Denise Levertov
> > >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Andrew
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