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Sorry for your mother Barry. Let me be silly to play down a little, weren't you just about 20 on your latest birthday... :-) On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Intriguing use of "*" After two readings I can't quite figure their > relation to quotation marks. Line > 8 is really something--I might like to treat it or quote it in the future. > Who should I cite? > > My 89 year old mother almost got clipped yesterday by a METRO bus while we > were crossing the > main drag of Bethesda Maryland to get to a major gallery exhibition > mounted by Osuna Art of the > Washington Color School painter Howard Mehring. That near-miss forced me > to adopt a > performative stance towards reality in which I have a camera in hand with > finger on the live > trigger--overtly focused on the drivers & vehicles impatient to turn into > well-marked crosswalks. > Stops 'em in their tracks. Deters panhandlers as well, when you're > walking thus on sidewalks. > > > Barry > > > On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 10:56:39 +0100, Anny Ballardini < > [log in to unmask]> wrote: > > >an interesting composing > > > >On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 4:52 AM, Peter Ciccariello <[log in to unmask]> > >wrote: > > > >> *Important * > >> > >> When you are still there, > >> Just that one peremptory step aside > >> And the dark fuming bus vortexes past you > >> And you are still there > >> Looking out from your envelope head > >> > >> Continuing on your way > >> To something else so important > >> > >> *Importance gesticulates in as quickly as it soirees out * > >> > >> - Another thing > >> The bus can't carry: > >> > >> A brown desiccated leaf > >> Dancing across the snow > >> > >> All these things that you do > >> These things that you have married yourself to > >> > >> > >> - Peter Ciccariello > >> > > > > > > > >-- > >Anny Ballardini > >http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/ > >http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=poetshome > >http://www.moriapoetry.com/ebooks.html > >I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing > >star! > >=========================================================== > ============== > -- Anny Ballardini http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/ http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=poetshome http://www.moriapoetry.com/ebooks.html I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing star!