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Just now I passed
your past address,
a hollow among
bushes by the railway.

Now you live
in the former
half-way house
yet walk city streets
like the homeless
you once lived among

the pavement
alleys and buildings
somehow still
shape your life

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On 22 June 2017 at 23:15, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Not quite that bad, Andrew, but I also noticed that ‘passed’, & wonder how
> you might either find another line to make 2 couplets out of that tercet,
> or else not worry about stanza breaks at all, at least so ordered then
> broken once. The observation keeps.
>
> Doug
> > On Jun 22, 2017, at 5:35 AM, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > Yes, it's shit Bill. I'll tighten it and fiddle with 'passed' and 'past'
> > ... An unedited snap from my busy brain :-)
> >
> > Andrew
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> > On 22 June 2017 at 18:19, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> >> Line one's 'passed' is odd to me, Andrew. And why the tercet among the
> >> couplets? Otherwise this is of interest, the idea of shapes' effect on
> >> lives.
> >>
> >> Bill
> >>
> >> On Thu, 22 Jun 2017 at 2:14 PM, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I drive passed
> >>> your past address
> >>>
> >>> a hollow among
> >>> bushes by the railway
> >>>
> >>> now you live
> >>> full time
> >>>
> >>> in the former
> >>> half-way house
> >>>
> >>> yet walk the city streets
> >>> like the homeless
> >>> you once lived among
> >>>
> >>> the pavement
> >>> alleys and buildings
> >>>
> >>> somehow shape
> >>> your life
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Andrew
> >>> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
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> >>>
> >>>
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> Douglas Barbour
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> I go down to the Twilight Arcade
> and watch the Martian invaders,
> already appalled by our language,
> pointing at what they want.
>
>           Bill Manhire
>



-- 
Andrew
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