Cat -boots -booting---how true thanks Douglas was trying a sort of 1/2 found poem-theidea of a careful cat checking and sadlled with a limited owner(me) cheers
-----Original Message-----
From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Douglas Barbour
Sent: 22 January 2014 17:08
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: pat snap
Well, they all showed here, Pat, for the cats, if not for non-multilingual me...
Doug
On Jan 22, 2014, at 5:39 AM, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Cheers Bill some lines did not print must be our plain text thingy P
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of Bill Wootton
> Sent: 22 January 2014 10:56
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: pat snap
>
> Impressive keyboard repertoire you have at your command, Patrick. They do strike me as multi-lingual, cats. Or affecting multilinguality. I get a strong sense in your poem of this cat wearing the boots in the family!
>
> Cheers,
> Bill
>
>> On 22 Jan 2014, at 7:23 pm, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> ?? ?????????
>>
>> ?e ????e????
>> sis Siipikararjaa
>> med Fjerkr?
>> med F?gelk?tt
>> com Aves
>> con Aves
>> con Carni Bianche
>> met Gevogelte
>> a la Volaille
>> mit Gevfl?gel
>> with Poultry
>>
>> cat checked
>> his food pouch
>> carefully
>> for its contents
>> as his owner
>> could only read
>> one language
>> and that rather
>> incompetently
>>
>>
>> pmcmanus
>> r452
>> please correct any errors
>>
>
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