Pain! We know it well, don't we, from out first sore pinky to our (future)
last gasp. A true note, Doug.
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On 15 June 2017 at 05:58, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Ah yes, Doug, life a procession of sores with intermissions it seems. The
> body in pain, was it Elaine Scarry who wrote so compellingly about it?
> Perhaps more can be said about differences between public/private pain and
> the differences between experience and empathy.
>
> Bill
>
> On Thu, 15 Jun 2017 at 4:29 am, Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > How vivid and how real and human this is, Doug. Haunting and from many
> > places near and far felt in different ways. And with.
> >
> > On Jun 14, 2017 11:24 AM, "Douglas Barbour" <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> > pain is so personal
> > unless it’s so public
> > it’s something more than pain
> >
> > all those bodies in
> > or beyond it
> > we feel for & at
> > that distance do not _feel_
> >
> > & our own a cut a punch
> > or something more
> > & longer lasting
> >
> > that _hurts_ that
> > haunts our nights
> > physical presence
> > in the body
> >
> > & so in the mind
> > until it’s over
> >
> > gone & only
> > remembered as like
> >
> > until the next time
> > when it’s new & sore
> > all over again
> >
> >
> > Douglas Barbour
> > [log in to unmask]
> > https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
> >
> > Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations &
> Continuations 2
> > (UofAPress).
> > Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
> > Listen. If (UofAPress):
> >
> >
> > I go down to the Twilight Arcade
> > and watch the Martian invaders,
> > already appalled by our language,
> > pointing at what they want.
> >
> > Bill Manhire
> >
>
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