Thanks, Sheila. I favour this second version's opening stanza. Still have
trouble with 'Anymore' beginning stanza two. Am I getting closer to imagine
allusion to fresh T-man coinages? Covfefe?
https://www.google.com.au/amp/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/40104063
Bill
On Thu, 1 Jun 2017 at 6:25 pm, Patrick McManus <
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> Hey Bill I missed the Trumping !!!! read it as an escape poem !! this
> old head -but then perhaps no two readers get exactly the same
> understanding???
>
>
> On 01/06/2017 08:52, Sheila Murphy wrote:
> > Bill, it may not be you at all! I come to wonder whether line 1 is not
> the
> > biggest stumbling block. This may make no diff, but you did give me a
> > thought. Yes, there are references to the T. Thanks. Sheila
> >
> > Comedia
> >
> > Faced with present
> > prestidigitation,
> > why not
> > major in history?
> >
> > Anymore, the past
> > reverberates with
> > just-so justice,
> > versus an unframed
> >
> > portrait of today,
> > signed by the self-
> > appointed mascot
> > of disruptive screech
> >
> > that implicates
> > its hearers
> > for receiving
> > and rescinding.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 12:40 AM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Sleight of hand? I recall the word prestidigitation, sounding like
> >> something a century old magician might get up to. But sorry, Sheila, I
> can
> >> make no more sense of this poem than I could of last week's. I'm sure
> it's
> >> me but I just can't lock in any sort of interpretation. It's 'about'
> Trump,
> >> maybe? (Most things seem to be these days.) These words, in this order,
> are
> >> inpenetrable to me and I've tried - I've read and re-read a number of
> >> times. Is there some 'key' of which I am unaware?
> >>
> >> Bill
> >>
> >> On Thu, 1 Jun 2017 at 5:18 pm, Patrick McManus <
> >> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I am getting ancient had to double check
> >>>
> >>> prestidigitation.
> >>>
> >>> and good job I did!! one of those BIG words one wishes to work in
> >>> thanks Sheila ah the safety of studying history (unless one is some
> sort
> >>> of denier!!
> >>> cheers P 9off on short holiday -I hate holidays but well duty calls !!
> >>> On 01/06/2017 03:41, Sheila Murphy wrote:
> >>>> Lockstep splinters
> >>>> faced with
> >>>> prestidigitation.
> >>>> Why not
> >>>>
> >>>> major in history?
> >>>> Anymore, the past
> >>>> reverberates with
> >>>> just-so justice,
> >>>>
> >>>> versus an unframed
> >>>> portrait of today,
> >>>> signed by the self-
> >>>> appointed mascot
> >>>>
> >>>> of disruptive screech
> >>>> that implicates
> >>>> its hearers for
> >>>> receiving and rescinding.
> >>>>
> >>>> Sheila E. Murphy
>
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