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Not sure, p, how to respond to your opening up my problem. Is S top some sort of smartphone shorthand for skimpy top? Then Saint Operation? Stow Patrick? But where? He is already stowed away in Raines Park is he not?

Bill. Stop. 


> On 25 Feb 2015, at 8:18 am, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> Bill
> Perhaps yours is an unknown phone number maybe a typo 
> Perhaps it should read 'S top' or St op' or just 'sto p'
> Which could be very serious
> Sto p
> I blame Lawrence Upton
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Bill Wootton
> Sent: 24 February 2015 21:07
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: STOP
> 
> STOP
> 
> One word message 
> on my phone
> left at 7.03,
> unknown phone number,
> followed by
> Stop,
> lower case,
> at 8.04.
> Different phone number,
> also unknown.
> 
> Feel tempted to enquire,
> of one, or both,
> Just what exactly 
> is it you would have
> me desist from doing.
> o unknown one(s)?
> 
> But what if this leads
> to some sort
> of unstoppable scam,
> jamming up my phone
> for ever more?
> 
> Later, on Facebook,
> I note an acquaintance 
> has posted Stop,
> a song by The Spice Girls.
> I play it a bit. 
> It's the drivel I expect.
> 
> Stop.
> I didn't even know
> I'd started.
> 
> bw
>