Touche, Patrick.
Bill
On Fri, 9 Mar 2018 at 5:43 am, Patrick McManus <
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> microwaving is quicker
>
>
> On 07/03/2018 12:01, Bill Wootton wrote:
> > 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 <
> > [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> >> 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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