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Yes, I apologise for that I'd been thinking about such matters since I mentioned The Sneeze a while back and then I have twice had to spend time with people who keep sniffing and snorting, to be polite. So I have tried to vent it from my system, as it were L On 23 September 2015 at 16:07, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Well, my visceral reaction says you caught this all too well, Lawrence. A > kind of on-the-page performance piece…. > > Doug > On Sep 23, 2015, at 2:49 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > > He was prising snot loose from his nose, > > > > prior to deploying a handkerchief > > > > and expelled breath; poking it, dragging > > > > a nail upwards and down so gently; > > > > enjoying himself, but too concentrated > > > > for a look of satisfaction; intense, > > > > like an animal or less than self-conscious > > > > human beings, itchy, scratching themselves. > > > > > > > > And then he blew it; both tunnels; quite hard, > > > > the square white cloth pushed up into his face; > > > > the explosive utterance of a full-up nose > > > > and the mucky billowing of held fabric > > > > forced in place by broad chubby hands, again > > > > and again; till the volumes were wrung and empty. > > 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. >