I took it as a political poem about how factions of countries (UK and US) are distant, and no one talks any more and how rumors spread but no one ventures out to make real connections via in person or even phone calls. About how we are all hunkered down, inside. behind thick curtains and dense computer screens. And even the windows, the eyes of the industrial world are draped shut. like closed minds.
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Thanks, Doug, for the understanding.
On Tue, Jun 18, 2019, 10:10 AM Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> A quiet dorm here, Sheila.
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> The way something slips into people & vice versa; a hurting caught.
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> > Some people know people
> > while others do not
> > They look on wondering
> > how a thing begins.
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> > There seems so little chemistry,
> > so many windows draped shut
> > No one starts up something, and yet
> > people speak to other people.
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> > And the friendships seem like
> > movies that you watch and think
> > you might be in one day,
> > then days pass into other days.
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> > And you are still apart from
> > all the people who know people
> > and they don't know you
> > you don't know them.
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> > Sheila E. Murphy
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> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations
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> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
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> Why poetry? And why not, I asked,
> my right brain humming sedition.
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