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Many thanks, Sheila. Imagination can be an iterative machine.

And I've had some odd nights lately.

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Jill Jones www.jilljones.com.au 

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Sent:Tue, 4 Aug 2015 22:02:54 -0700
Subject:Re: JJ Night Snap

 Jill, this really hits home, notably with "Watch how your imagination
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 copies your imagination"
 Wonderful!

 On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 7:22 PM, Jill Jones  wrote:

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 > THE GODDAM NIGHT
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 > Giddy night is more than a container
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 > The sources of stupidity lie within
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 > Watch how your imagination copies
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 > your imagination
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 > Yes, it’s the night, the goddam night
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 > full of kitschy previews hard-wired
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 > to soap plots and merciless roundabouts
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 > of a house, a saucerful of spectres
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 > an unmemorable mess of misalignments
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 > of thought and action, though it seems plausible
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 > It’s merely vertiginous, yes, even a dream
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 > of falling, but at least for once before you fall
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 > you realise you don’t care about the toss
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 > Waking life might be life, life might be what it is
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 > you fall over it enough
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 > knock the cup from the table
 > ________________________
 > Jill Jones www.jilljones.com.au
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