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In those days I was prosperous and we had a spare room L On Thu, April 22, 2010 11:11, Patrick McManus wrote: > Lawrence you are lucky that she did not silence you with a pillow or > summat! P concerned -still you having to sleep in a shed i the garden did > sound drastic > > -----Original Message----- > From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On > Behalf Of Lawrence Upton > Sent: 21 April 2010 16:34 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: > > > This is 20 years old but I still bring it out occasionally. I offer it > for such amusement as it affords > > My partner was so anguished by a period of (my) snoring she resorted to > the most extraordinary metaphors to communicate with me, as if I were > willingly disturbing her > > when i realised what was happening I tried to retain some > > I may have muddled them; she was certainly still half asleep when she > made them > > when i had enough, I put them into this shape and then read them at a > public reading in her presence > > L > > > > SNORING - my partner's metaphors > > > I am snoring. > I am snoring like a sunset, > snoring like a stone; I am snoring like the inside of a model of a frog's > eye; I am snoring like the spleen of a cat; > I am snoring like the sea; > I am snoring like a roll of linoleum; > I am snoring like a small boy boiling in flaming pitch; > I am snoring like a pebble; > I am snoring like a bridge over frozen water; > snoring like a table top; snoring like the Dardanelles; snoring like Pope > John XXIII; > like daisies in a chain; spiritually; I am snoring like seventy million > donkeys; I am snoring like all the couples in the world, > hetero and other sexual, fucking in the same bed simultaneously next door; > snoring more loudly than the refrigerator. I snore like a trumpet. > I snore louder than a trumpet. > I snore louder than all the trumpets in Benjamin Britten. > > > > > -- > "The desire to testify": interview with Chris Goode > http://intercapillaryspace.blogspot.com/2010/02/desire-to-testify.html > ["the fullest, or at least the broadest, account I've yet given of what it > is I think I do and what questions underwrite it" Chris Goode] > > ‘a song and a film’ by Lawrence Upton -- Veer Publications / Writers > Forum > ISBN: 978-1-907088-05-6 A5 84 pages. 2009. £6.00 > > > "water lines and other poems" by Lawrence Upton - Pdf_16x16 111 pages > free download http://chalkeditions.co.cc > > ‘snap shots and video’ by Lawrence Upton -- Writers Forum > ISBN: 978-1-84254-113-5 A5 52 pages. £6.00 > > > Lawrence Upton > AHRC Creative Research Fellow > Dept of Music > Goldsmiths, University of London > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.437 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2825 - Release Date: 04/21/10 > 06:31:00 > > -- "The desire to testify": interview with Chris Goode http://intercapillaryspace.blogspot.com/2010/02/desire-to-testify.html ["the fullest, or at least the broadest, account I've yet given of what it is I think I do and what questions underwrite it" Chris Goode] ‘a song and a film’ by Lawrence Upton -- Veer Publications / Writers Forum ISBN: 978-1-907088-05-6 A5 84 pages. 2009. £6.00 "water lines and other poems" by Lawrence Upton - Pdf_16x16 111 pages free download http://chalkeditions.co.cc ‘snap shots and video’ by Lawrence Upton -- Writers Forum ISBN: 978-1-84254-113-5 A5 52 pages. £6.00 Lawrence Upton AHRC Creative Research Fellow Dept of Music Goldsmiths, University of London