Could change the verbs in the opening couplet to past tense I suppose,
Doug. It is past. Did you have Drum tobacco and Tally Ho cigarette papers
in Canada?
Bill
On Wed, 8 May 2019 at 8:13 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Ah, is this an order, or merely the order you followed those 8 years, Bill?
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> Because I don’t know the context in which they were necessary, I’m not
> sure I feel the pressure of the poem.
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> Doug
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> > On May 7, 2019, at 4:03 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
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> > Never leave home,
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> > never walk out the door
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> > without patting the pockets.
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> > Must hear the reassuring rattle
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> > of little wood
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> > against little wood.
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> > Red nubs forward,
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> > blacks back.
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> > A wallet’s handy,
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> > coins, keys
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> > but without matches,
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> > you’re still undressed,
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> > not ready
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> > to take on the world.
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> > For eight years,
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> > I lived like this,
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> > conscripted
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> > to ignition,
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> > following the Drum,
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> > Tally Ho ...
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> > bw
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> Douglas Barbour
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> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations
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> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
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> into Persia. Who dances in Persia now?
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> A magic carpet, a prayer mat, red.
> A knocked off head of somebody on her broken knees.
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