cheers to waft of waffle
p's a Patrick piffling perfectly pulsating!
On 27/12/2018 08:29, Bill Wootton wrote:
> Thanks, Barry. Fascinating historical document, Zorm’s Lemma. Have not gone
> through it all yet but I see that she does nor go slavishly through all
> letters either. It would take some time to shoot those images, well done to
> link Lady with Madonna. The accent is kind of creepy, other worldly in the
> first bit. Is that a transatlantic accent? Like Sylvia Plath?
>
> Mot sure where mine will go or whether I should just leave it.
>
> Bill
>
> On Thu, 27 Dec 2018 at 3:16 am, Barry Alpert <
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>
>> Bill,
>>
>> Thanks for your charming alphabet poem. A major focus of fine press &
>> artists books for centuries (I regularly read descriptions of them in rare
>> book dealer catalogues). Right now I can't remember particular alphabetical
>> poems coming to my attention relatively recently, but Hollis Frampton (who
>> studied The Pisan Cantos with Ezra Pound at St. Elizabeth's) released an
>> alphabetical film ZORN'S LEMMA in 1970 which intrigued me upon first
>> viewing and now that I discover it on YouTube . . .
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec2-GZRYGd8
>>
>> Barry
>>
>> On Wed, 26 Dec 2018 07:11:48 +1100, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Let’s take a little alphabet
>>>
>>>
>>> letter by letter but let’s
>>>
>>> not start with a
>>>
>>>
>>> let’s have a gander at g
>>>
>>> a good enough place to start
>>>
>>> g can be genuine, generous
>>>
>>> or globular, gullible, a grunter,
>>>
>>> an active participle ender
>>>
>>> gunning with his ‘in’ running mates
>>>
>>> but g is no a-lister
>>>
>>> too often grubby, gaping
>>>
>>> or gelled up,
>>>
>>> affecting genius
>>>
>>> and expecting
>>>
>>> jilted cousin j to genuflect
>>>
>>>
>>> if it’s a smarter consonant you seek
>>>
>>> look no further than c
>>>
>>> - like g, can be soft or hard
>>>
>>> but look what else you cop -
>>>
>>> conservative, classy,
>>>
>>> central, circular
>>>
>>> crisp cheddar cheeses
>>>
>>> notice its checks
>>>
>>> and balances
>>>
>>> wherever it crops up
>>>
>>> it can dance the can-can
>>>
>>> yes we cannot
>>>
>>> be convinced that c
>>>
>>> can collapse
>>>
>> >from its all-conquering perch
>>>
>>> but what of the vowels you ask
>>>
>>> well don’t let’s get started
>>>
>>> on eddy everywhere e
>>>
>>> - sentencers and scrabblers
>>>
>>> reach and seek for him too often
>>>
>>>
>>> a’s are anyones
>>>
>>> u’s are unlovely q buddies
>>>
>>> o’s offer more, round out
>>>
>>> options but can obstruct orifices
>>>
>>> obliterate one’s onions
>>>
>>> no, o
>>>
>>>
>>> should dip his lid to international, inky i
>>>
>>> - i is interesting
>>>
>>> immoral, immeasurable,
>>>
>>> ideal, ironic, isolating
>>>
>>> and can do e
>>>
>>> if you like,
>>>
>>> right, Ian?
>>>
>>>
>>> s is sassy, sanguine,
>>>
>>> a scene-stealing siren,
>>>
>>> always up for a plural
>>>
>>>
>>> d, a doe, a downer,
>>>
>>> developing from drivel
>>>
>>>
>>> f fails and falls frightfully,
>>>
>>> freighted with farts
>>>
>>>
>>> z’s zeal fizzles
>>>
>>> h hums and haws
>>>
>>> vapid v no victor
>>>
>>>
>>> t’s tops in trees,
>>>
>>> triumphs in thistles
>>>
>>> but totally terrible
>>>
>>> at tinkering with tomorrow
>>>
>>>
>>> p’s a prince
>>>
>>> or a poor pencil
>>>
>>> privatised,
>>>
>>> a pneumatic phantom
>>>
>>>
>>> r romps, roves, rails,
>>>
>>> a raspberry risker
>>>
>>> and randy ratbag
>>>
>>>
>>> but it’s double-clunking w
>>>
>>> that wins the all-wound award
>>>
>>> why w, you wise and whiskery wonder,
>>>
>>> wrapping wine and whisky
>>>
>>> whenever and wherever you want,
>>>
>>> warping warrants,
>>>
>>> westering winds,
>>>
>>> weeping at windows -
>>>
>>> what a way
>>>
>>> to wind down this waft
>>>
>>> of waffle
>>>
>>>
>>> bw
>>>
>>> 25.12.18
>>>
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