Thanks Jill.
Doug
> On Sep 2, 2018, at 12:44 AM, Jill Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Hi Doug,
> Yes, as everyone says, powerful. I also liked the sonics, especially
> around:
> a man or woman powers policy
> makes or takes phonecalls
> listens & gives orders to
> men & women serving
> country party self
>
> This gets something incantatory going.
> Best,Jill
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> Sent:Thu, 30 Aug 2018 07:34:15 +0800
> Subject:Re: snap the news
>
> 'Up there' reality gets drawn on battle plans. down here the boots
> get
> muddy (Woody busking at the automatic doors).
>
> Andrew
>
> On Thu, 30 Aug 2018 at 06:51, Bill Wootton wrote:
>
>> Ah, the dangers of the right, Doug, or, worse, a clarified right.
> That’s
>> ‘in’ I presume in line 1.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>> On Thu, 30 Aug 2018 at 6:40 am, Sheila Murphy
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Painful reality, Doug. Very accurately drawn and raw. That
> unbearable,
>>> inaccurate self confidence.
>>>
>>> Thanks, Sheila
>>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 29, 2018, 8:15 AM Douglas Barbour
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On the 31st floor
>>>> a gold plated door
>>>> won’t keep out
>>>> the Lord’s burning rain
>>>> Gram Parsons
>>>>
>>>> on just such a floor i
>>>> some office suite
>>>> a man or woman powers policy
>>>> makes or takes phonecalls
>>>> listens & gives orders to
>>>> men & women serving
>>>> country party self
>>>> people will die some
>>>> rape & torture inevitable
>>>> in this messy arrangement
>>>> called war or cleansing
>>>> there are precedents &
>>>> a clarified future to achieve
>>>> & will will power
>>>> it all
>>>> abstracted up there
>>>> they know they’re right
>>>>
Douglas Barbour
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Shakespeare
Drag yr mouldy old bones
Up these stairs & tell me
What you died of,
I think
I’ve got it
Too.
Sharon Thesen
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