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Being Kept Awake at Night in a Resort Room in Cooktown in Far Northern Queensland
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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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