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From: Patrick McManus [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: 08 January 2014 08:59
To: 'Poetryetc: poetry and poetics'
Subject: pat snaps 609 %/%/%/%/%/%/ Wednesday, 08 January 2014

Couple of seasonal snaps from Raynes Park

TUNING UP

after
carefully
tuning up
my guitar
I have decided 
to tune up
for the new year
my whole life
but find that
many of 
my strings 
are missing
frets wobbling
nut bent
saddled splintered
sound hole gaping
neck warped
tuning keys skewed 
bridge shattered
pick guard flapping
and as for my 
poor body
top pitted
full of worm
it's cracked
sides splitting
and who knows 
what's  happening
to my end pin!

pmcmanus
r436


THE PRESENT

when she
gave him
the present
of the packet
labelled
'one hundred
and twenty five
assorted screws'
he paused 
slightly before 
thanking her


pmcmanus
r442