Hear hear, Millicent! I like it!
On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 11:08 PM Millicent Borges Accardi <
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> An alternative title?
> Being Kept Awake at Night in a Resort Room in Cooktown in Far Northern
> Queensland
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
> To: POETRYETC <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tue, Aug 13, 2019 11:02 pm
> Subject: Re: Spoken schmoken
>
> Thanks Sheila. The genesis of this piece was being kept awake at night
> trying to sleep in a resort room in Cooktown in Far Northern Queensland. I
> was intending to ruminate on the weight and volume of word sounds so
> apparently necessary to so many people so late at night. But it came out as
> it did.
>
> Bill
>
> On Wed, 14 Aug 2019 at 1:32 pm, Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > Bill,
> >
> > You begin in the middle of things, which is effective in this piece. The
> > trio of segments are Hegelian, seemingly. The synthesis is unexpected.
> > What one is left asking how the infection of language works. Not
> > predictably, surely.
> >
> > Thanks. Sheila
> >
> >
> > Spoken schmoken
> > >
> > >
> > > Do not worry about these words. They are not armed.
> > >
> > > They are assembled. They have however been pressed
> > >
> > > into service. They march toward but never reach
> > >
> > > the edge. They are freighted but not loaded.
> > >
> > >
> > > Other words command. They bristle with intention.
> > >
> > > Achtung! Crocodiles! Across Northern Queensland
> > >
> > > multi-lingual Germans are forewarned riverside.
> > >
> > >
> > > Now let us turn to another bracket of words:
> > >
> > > those unexamined words issued by mind and mouth,
> > >
> > > at volume. Rat-a-tat words, unsentenced outgoings,
> > >
> > > non-words even. Whoops. Hollers.
> > >
> > > When you are under the covers in the night
> > >
> > > it is these
> > >
> > > that are the killers.
> > >
> > >
> > > bw
> > >
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