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Hey Bill I missed the Trumping !!!! read it as an escape poem !! this old head -but then perhaps no two readers get exactly the same understanding??? On 01/06/2017 08:52, Sheila Murphy wrote: > Bill, it may not be you at all! I come to wonder whether line 1 is not the > biggest stumbling block. This may make no diff, but you did give me a > thought. Yes, there are references to the T. Thanks. Sheila > > Comedia > > Faced with present > prestidigitation, > why not > major in history? > > Anymore, the past > reverberates with > just-so justice, > versus an unframed > > portrait of today, > signed by the self- > appointed mascot > of disruptive screech > > that implicates > its hearers > for receiving > and rescinding. > > > > > > On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 12:40 AM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > >> Sleight of hand? I recall the word prestidigitation, sounding like >> something a century old magician might get up to. But sorry, Sheila, I can >> make no more sense of this poem than I could of last week's. I'm sure it's >> me but I just can't lock in any sort of interpretation. It's 'about' Trump, >> maybe? (Most things seem to be these days.) These words, in this order, are >> inpenetrable to me and I've tried - I've read and re-read a number of >> times. Is there some 'key' of which I am unaware? >> >> Bill >> >> On Thu, 1 Jun 2017 at 5:18 pm, Patrick McManus < >> [log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >>> I am getting ancient had to double check >>> >>> prestidigitation. >>> >>> and good job I did!! one of those BIG words one wishes to work in >>> thanks Sheila ah the safety of studying history (unless one is some sort >>> of denier!! >>> cheers P 9off on short holiday -I hate holidays but well duty calls !! >>> On 01/06/2017 03:41, Sheila Murphy wrote: >>>> Lockstep splinters >>>> faced with >>>> prestidigitation. >>>> Why not >>>> >>>> major in history? >>>> Anymore, the past >>>> reverberates with >>>> just-so justice, >>>> >>>> versus an unframed >>>> portrait of today, >>>> signed by the self- >>>> appointed mascot >>>> >>>> of disruptive screech >>>> that implicates >>>> its hearers for >>>> receiving and rescinding. >>>> >>>> Sheila E. Murphy