Oh brings back a memory or two ...
On 5 July 2018 at 07:24, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Thanks, Doug. Yes mortifying for the pisser and perhaps others sensed that
> at the time. Later, I seem to recall, even years later, I was joshed about
> the incident, which was not so bad. I had more steel by then.
>
> Bill
>
> On Thu, 5 Jul 2018 at 2:06 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
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> > Comic now, Bill, for a kind of bush in school ballad, but not then…
> >
> > Still, why no ridicule, eh? The bigger question, you couldn’t answer
> then,
> > or now?
> >
> > Doug
> >
> > > On Jul 4, 2018, at 4:36 AM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Me either, Pat, to this day
> > >
> > > On Wed, 4 Jul 2018 at 7:33 pm, Patrick McManus <
> > > [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > >
> > >> ah yes Bill reminds me of those type of embarrassing moments
> > >>
> > >> thanks
> > >>
> > >> not sure who did mopping?
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On 04/07/2018 02:32, Bill Wootton wrote:
> > >>> Grade two, felt the urge
> > >>>
> > >>> Full bladder, must purge
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> In class, what to do
> > >>>
> > >>> Can’t just leave room
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> Couldn’t ask, no one did
> > >>>
> > >>> I was just a little kid
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> Cross legs, hang on
> > >>>
> > >>> But I knew - I was gone
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> Left leg feeling warm
> > >>>
> > >>> First trickle absorbed
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> Black serge, short pants,
> > >>>
> > >>> Inside I shrank
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> Oh no, on the floor
> > >>>
> > >>> Small puddle starts to form
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> Face flushes full red
> > >>>
> > >>> Dignity, no shred
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> Socks damp, shoes full
> > >>>
> > >>> Ready for ridicule
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> But all round, no one stirs
> > >>>
> > >>> Teacher says not a word
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> Eons pass, don’t dare shift
> > >>>
> > >>> Should I use my handkerchief?
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> When, finally, the bell ...
> > >>>
> > >>> To the door I squelch
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> Once there, still not free
> > >>>
> > >>> Dark footprints dog me
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> Mid-lunch, window glare
> > >>>
> > >>> Mop and bucket in there
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> Afternoon all expunged
> > >>>
> > >>> My lonely lake undone
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> bw
> > >>>
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> > Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations
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> > Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
> > Listen. If (UofAPress):
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> > There is no real
> > world, my friends.
> > Why not, then
> > let the stars
> > shine in our bones?
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