Thanks, Doug. Sleeping better at Port Douglas.
Bill
On Thu, 15 Aug 2019 at 2:28 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Agree with the others Bill. But, yes, the rumination late at night,
> inescapable it seems with all that noise.
>
> Doug
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> > On Aug 14, 2019, at 12:16 AM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> > Touche, M
> >
> > B
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> > On Wed, 14 Aug 2019 at 4:10 pm, Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Hear hear, Millicent! I like it!
> >>
> >> On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 11:08 PM Millicent Borges Accardi <
> >> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>
> >>> 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
> >>>>>
> >>>>
>
> Douglas Barbour
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> https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
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> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations
> 2 (UofAPress).
> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
> Listen. If (UofAPress):
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> Drag yr mouldy old bones
> Up these stairs & tell me
> What you died of,
> I think
> I’ve got it
> Too.
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