Ah, I think we did/do…; but I haven’t had any thing to do with them, & so didnt get the reference… Not sure you need quite so much telling...
Doug
> On May 7, 2019, at 4:28 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> 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?
>>
>> Because I don’t know the context in which they were necessary, I’m not
>> sure I feel the pressure of the poem.
>>
>> Doug
>>
>>> On May 7, 2019, at 4:03 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Never leave home,
>>>
>>> never walk out the door
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> without patting the pockets.
>>>
>>> Must hear the reassuring rattle
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> of little wood
>>>
>>> against little wood.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Red nubs forward,
>>>
>>> blacks back.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> A wallet’s handy,
>>>
>>> coins, keys
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> but without matches,
>>>
>>> you’re still undressed,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> not ready
>>>
>>> to take on the world.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> For eight years,
>>>
>>> I lived like this,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> conscripted
>>>
>>> to ignition,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> following the Drum,
>>>
>>> Tally Ho ...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> bw
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