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On 17/11/2016 00:39, Andrew Burke 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
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>>> 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
>>>
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