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Fair comment, Max, Doug. Will see what I can do to retrieve the poem. Alas, Pat, cannot retrieve the tree or the situation. This was two houses ago, in Ivanhoe, in the Melbourne suburbs. Just thinking back ... Bill On Thursday, 9 June 2016, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I’d agree here, Bill, but also, Max’s point: for me the wind went out in > the passive of > > Then the extension > went up. > > The lack of agency there, & so of reason fro revenge. > > Doug > > On Jun 8, 2016, at 2:55 AM, Patrick McManus < > [log in to unmask] <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > > Hi Bill knock down that extension get the tree back !! P > > > > -----Original Message----- From: Bill Wootton Sent: Wednesday, June 8, > 2016 12:04 AM To: [log in to unmask] <javascript:;> Subject: > Grapefruit revenge > > First tree took two years > > to fruit. Fruit was big, > > yellow and bitter as. > > > > Second tree prolific, > > fruit smaller, less bitter > > but a seed demon. > > > > Third tree just right. > > Juicy, refreshing, > > seedfree. > > > > First two trees > > hauled out. > > A season of bliss. > > > > Then the extension > > went up. Total trees > > in backyard orchard > > > > reduced to none. > > Grapefruits to this day > > laugh at me. > > > > bw > > Douglas Barbour > [log in to unmask] <javascript:;> > https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/ > > Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations > 2 (UofAPress). > Recording Dates (Rubicon Press). > > Automobile Accident > > Not finding where the flowers were > he seized a tree. > > Lorine Niedecker >