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Patrick,

You're more than welcome.

I'll be back in touch in a week or so.  I've got a holiday coming up first.

Tina
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Patrick Mc Manus" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 6:29 PM
Subject: Re: snap-Bass


> That parquet flaw!!
> Thai bride to be 
> Tenderiing memories
> Thanks Tina 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and
> poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tina Bass
> Sent: 12 July 2006 11:21
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: snap-Bass
> 
> Pirbright Camp*
> 
> 
> inside each one plastique
> mould round parquet flaw
> electric sheened
> in keeping time
> sofas & women bound - 
> bright orange flower
> arrangements
> 
> night-time glints
> military jeeps
> 
>            they've come to take...
> 
>            no, not him tonight - someone
>            else stepped out of line
>            beat his wife
>            too noisily
> 
> so quiet
> 
> so quietly glass skitters over nylon
> 
> another window broken
> 
>            blame the manufacturers
>            for not building strong enough
>            British Standard used to mean
>            something
>            you know
>            back then
> 
>            when?
> 
>            when
> 
> MP's like Frank
> in Sierra Leone
> dealt justice to terrorists
> so they'd understand
> he hung one by its ankles
> put it on slow burn
> while still alive
> it died
> 
> tenderising memories now
> his Thai soon-bride-to-be (32)
> she knows that  he could get
> much younger if he tried but
> he never screws young girls
> or swears - no loud tattoos
> 
> so he says
> 
> quickening
> 
> moves closer to Gotama every day
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> *Residential area for British soldiers and their families (close to
> Aldershot, England)
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