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People will enjoy hearing this, especially the elder set, Pat. As it piles them up…. Doug On Jul 22, 2015, at 3:44 AM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Good on you, Octo-Pat. Or maybe you should patent that mirror! > > Cheers, > Bill > > On 22/07/2015, at 6:35 PM, Patrick McManus wrote: > >> LOOK >> >> that cold >> bleak morning >> facing soon >> becoming an >> octogenarian >> he took >> a long hard >> critical look >> at himself >> in the cruel >> unforgiving >> fly specked >> cracked mirror >> with it's harsh >> bright neon >> overhead light >> and was forced >> reluctantly >> to admit >> how really >> absolutely >> terrific he >> looked >> >> >> pmcmanus >> r814 >> I rather enjoyed using the clichés here -do they work? >> then giving unexpected finish :-) >> >> Douglas Barbour [log in to unmask] Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2 (UofAPress). Recording Dates (Rubicon Press). Done in by creation itself. I mean the gods. Not us. Well us too. The gods moved into books. Who wrote the books? We wrote the books. In whose dream, then are we dreaming? Robert Kroetsch.