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Both are optional, Bill L On Mon, May 28, 2012 01:23, Patrick McManus wrote: > Hi Bill snaps are usually sent on Wednesdays -we build up into a heat of > excitement > > -----Original Message----- > From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On > Behalf Of Bill Wootton > Sent: 27 May 2012 10:38 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: School snap > > > You're rubbing shoulders, > sings Brian Ferry, for My pleasure > > thanks to a free-ranging I-pod as I pull into Reservoir High's empty car > park. > > Twa magpies conspire on asphalt. > One actively beaks a discarded chip packet > > > seeking morsels while the other waits. The seeker seems to see that > inversion is required > > But it is beyond him. > Ferry flicked, I emerge > > > just in time to hear a celebratory morming warble issue spontaneously > from the beaks of both birds. > > Their interweaving trills harangue the air and bounce off the gymnasium > walls. > > I walk toward them. They skitter away. > Upending the packet completely causes > > > the last remaining skerricks to plop, the packet bounces off in a sudden > wind. > > The magpies soar off over the oval > I turn to teach. > > ----- Lawrence Upton Visiting Fellow, Music Dept, Goldsmiths, University of London New Cross, London SE14 6NW ----