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L I did take a look!!!!!it was the poor poets state of mind that troubled me-everything so ugly- I wondered if the dismissed fattened creatures saw a gloomy poet on the platform? -or perhaps it's a post apocalyptic Mitcham-that must be it!! P non tetchy P -----Original Message----- From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Lawrence Upton Sent: 19 October 2011 19:03 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Landscape: Towards Mitcham Junction from the south No... As I recall it was quite late in the day. My state of mind may have been like that in -- is it Timon? with _More Man_ There is nothing here about beauty, Patrick. Take that line some time and look. Just look. It's not the eye of ANY beholder so much as people NOT using their eyes L On Wed, October 19, 2011 16:06, Patrick McManus wrote: > Ah yes fair Mitcham lavender -did someone get out of the wrong side of > the bed before writing this?? P beauty in the eye of the L > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On > Behalf Of Lawrence Upton > Sent: 19 October 2011 13:56 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Landscape: Towards Mitcham Junction from the south > > > Fences, with weedy ground behind. > Fattened creatures look out from trains, > but without seeing anything, and then turn back to beeping toys. > > Houses bend into view again > and once more curl away. Boxes of grey metal, with metal doors; concrete > blocks and channels; guard rails; > > walk ways, dysfunctional, ugly; more wild plants; more fencing; junk of > dead industrialisation roughly-placed aggressively; garbage in coloured > splitting plastic bags > > > > > [Mitcham is a fair way south in Greater London] > > ----- UNFRAMED GRAPHICS by Lawrence Upton 42 pages; A5 paperback; colour cover Writers Forum 978 1 84254 277 4 wfuk.org.uk/blog ---- Lawrence Upton Dept of Music Goldsmiths, University of London