Ah, c'mon, it's just the rap I hate...
Yes, we do, we do, we cant help ourselves...
Doug
On Mar 5, 2014, at 9:26 AM, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Cheers Bill---p
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Bill Wootton
> Sent: 05 March 2014 11:45
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: pat snap 616 _¬-*_¬-*_¬-*Wednesday, 05 March 2014
>
> It's a fear thing, I suppose, Pat, tinged with regret, such lambasting of the young. Not all feel this way of course. As Bob Dylan said/sang, 'I'd change places with any of them in a minute if I could.'(Highlands, I think, from Time out of Mind)
>
> Oldish Bill
>
>> On 5 Mar 2014, at 10:34 pm, Kenneth Wolman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> Sad, sardonic, very fine Patrick. What they thought of me, what I
>> think of them. It's a wonder we have children at all, given the disconnects.
>>
>> Ken
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>> On Behalf Of Patrick McManus
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2014 4:50 AM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: pat snap 616 _ -*_ -*_ -*Wednesday, 05 March 2014
>>
>> Written in response to a sad old poem at a meeting
>>
>> SOME THINGS
>>
>> some things
>> never change
>> all through history
>> the sad old have
>> flocked together
>>
>> flocked together
>> to bemoan the young
>> complain about change
>> they piteously bleat
>> about the young
>> young s hair
>> young s disrespect
>> young s manners
>> young s going down hill
>> young s taste in music
>> young s disobedience
>> young s garbled speech
>> young s everything
>> and
>> the old bemoan about
>> a lack of loveliness
>> through their old dusty
>> rose tinted glasses
>> frosted with age
>> go on and on about
>> the fabled good ol days
>> rattle their zimmers
>> sad old killjoys
>> heading towards
>> the knacker s yard
>> and
>> they have
>> forgotten
>> that long ago
>> their parents
>> flocked together
>> to bemoan the young
>> its all gone on
>> a litany a dirge
>> since the caves
>> throughout history
>> some-one please
>> put them out
>> of their misery
>>
>>
>> pmcmanus
>> r457
>> inspired by and dedicated to merton poets I was told that I could not
>> write 'to bemoan the young' I thought 'about'
>> was implied??? P of no grammaries
>> Wednesday, 05 March 2014
>>
>
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