Some hurt, Patrick. Les Murray, Australian poet said something like ‘Poetry
is easy. You just take off your head, boil it up on the stove for hours,
then put it back on before you go to bed.’
Bill
On Wed, 7 Mar 2018 at 10:52 pm, Patrick McManus <
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> like 'no poets were hurt making this anthology'
>
>
> On 07/03/2018 11:15, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> > Like it Bill but you forgot where they have to pretend to die. No
> > animals were hurt in the making of this film?
> >
> > John
> >
> >> ----Original Message----
> >> From: [log in to unmask]
> >> Date: 06/03/2018 23:56
> >> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> >> Subj: Horses
> >>
> >> Have no say
> >>
> >> in whether they want
> >>
> >> to appear in Westerns.
> >>
> >>
> >> Directors, actors, stuntmen
> >>
> >> - and women - do.
> >>
> >> It’s up to them. But horses -
> >>
> >>
> >> Think flooded river crossings,
> >>
> >> hauling laden wagons,
> >>
> >> full tilt range riding
> >>
> >>
> >> Up and down mountains
> >>
> >> of shifting stones. Horses,
> >>
> >> called to plough on
> >>
> >>
> >> in all weathers,
> >>
> >> accepting with alacrity,
> >>
> >> sounds of shootouts,
> >>
> >>
> >> roped into collapsing
> >>
> >> under cowboy weight,
> >>
> >> falling from great heights
> >>
> >>
> >> into raging rivers,
> >>
> >> onto dusty prairies,
> >>
> >> or snowy plains.
> >>
> >>
> >> Whipped by stage drivers,
> >>
> >> urged into burning saloons,
> >>
> >> crashing through windows.
> >>
> >>
> >> But without horses: pals,
> >>
> >> confidantes, muscled movers,
> >>
> >> where would your Western be?
> >>
> >>
> >> OK, there’d still be corrals, stampedes,
> >>
> >> batwing-doored saloons, robbed banks,
> >>
> >> six shooters, main street gunfights.
> >>
> >>
> >> But somewhere, tension must gallop.
> >>
> >> Horses, salute them.
> >>
> >> Hi Ho Silver!
> >>
> >>
> >> bw
> >>
>
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