So welcome, your comments, Doug! Thank you. Much to work with these days!
On Tue, Jun 30, 2020, 11:39 AM Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The whole poem a kind of comic (& mere) nemesis, Sheila, & so wittily
> done. So i’m agreeing with the others on a dialogue always going wrong,
> rightly so.
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> I can see the ee in the far background, but his was a comic erotic jest, &
> yours is a much more deliberate gesture…
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> Doug
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> > On Jun 29, 2020, at 10:03 PM, Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]>
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> > *Theme and Variations*
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> > Landscape or portrait, she?
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> > No matter, said he.
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> > One image, said she.
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> > I’m age, said he.
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> > What, she asked?
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> > Robert Parker on the brain, asked he?
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> > Line dancing, she replied.
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> > Good for what (ails you, ails me), said he.
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> > How about you solve my mystery, asked she?
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> > Welcome to my misery, chimed he,
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> > I do not hear you, she opined.
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> > The wind, we know, stays beautiful, said he.
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> > One angle or two, she asked?
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> > Are you an angel, asked he?
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> > Merely a nemesis, said she.
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> > Sheila E. Murphy
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> 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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> When thugs were in power, educated people were the first
> to feel their fists. It was so pathetic, really, how so much violence
> came from someone feeling small. Small of mind, and it did not
> matter how big the sword in hand, that essential smallness remained,
> gnawing with very sharp teeth.
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> the scholar Janath Anar
> in Steven Eerikson’s Reaper’s Gale
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