I read it as 'Out of here fits' too ... Sometimes there's a place for
commas (not comas).
Andrew
On 15/11/2007, Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Thanks, Doug. Never thought of those four words in that way. The
> psychiatric diction of the line ("fits. They give her electroshock.") had
> always imposed on me contentually. You have a point. Barry
>
>
> On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 08:38:18 -0700, Douglas Barbour
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> >'Out of here / fits.' could almost be a poetics of your work, Barry.
> >This one catches a flavour, especially with your, as usual, intriguing
> >companion commentary....
> >
> >Doug
>
>
>
> >On 13-Nov-07, at 11:49 PM, Barry Alpert wrote:
>
>
> BEST OF YOUTH
>
> [via Marco Tullio Giordana]
>
> ["What words fill your head?", Matteo to Giorgia]
>
>
> Book of poems I'd like to read to you,
> "Everyone's in the garden"
> struck you.
> Tell you later. Keep studying.
>
> Out of here
> fits. They give her electroshock.
>
> You have to look for it, inside
> one that's beautiful.
> Usual big-sister things.
> Then the thumb in back--
> how it got under there?
>
>
> Barry Alpert
>
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Andrew
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