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Patrick The only use of the word _ugly_ is with regard to the concrete walkways. They are ugly. If you have looked, I shall be surprised if you disagree. I dismissed no one. I described them, in so far as there is anything to describe. That is, I believe, how they are. It is regretable that you see the problem to be in the mind of the perceiver; you missed a psychiatric vocation Best L On Thu, October 20, 2011 09:33, Patrick McManus wrote: > 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 > > ----- 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