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A good run at it yes some spirited lines. I read for a lit quarterly and it is equal to a lot of submitted work! Sent from my iPhone > On 2 Oct 2017, at 10:58 pm, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > There are lines I like a lot too, Dominic. A good quick run at it. > > Doug >> On Oct 2, 2017, at 7:33 AM, Dominic Fox <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >> They had it by the throat; it croaked a little >> advertising jingle, then expired >> into unceasing light and heat of battle, >> a bitch of a surprise, that briskly flared >> then turned on its devices and reviewed >> its options with a snickering disdain >> as if out of that throat a voice had blared, >> long past, that there was everything to gain - >> >> and that was bad, a melter-down of mettle >> that fuzzed the meter, turned the water weird, >> declared itself a belter but was brittle >> (if not as fettlesome as we had feared). >> We flopped down on the deck, the fish we'd speared >> still flapping, a wet universe of pain, >> as over the horizon it appeared >> again that there was everything to gain >> >> by camouflage of selves among the cattle, >> by persiflage among the newly-squired; >> by marriage, though we had no wish to settle >> into squaredom and our hearts were coolly fired >> by slow-combusting sacrilege. We fared >> no better in that universe of strain >> than had our ancestors, who yet inferred, >> despite all, that they'd everything to gain. >> >> A creeping pox on all whom kings have sired >> is heritance, the weevil in the grain >> yet multiplying, as his sire required, >> avowing that there was everything to gain. >> >> >> --- >> >> >> Tim Thornton posted one of these on Facebook, and various people said >> they'd have a go, so I joined in. It's silly (I just went for it, without >> thinking particularly hard about what I was saying or why), but there are >> some lines I like a lot. >> >> >> D > > Douglas Barbour > [log in to unmask] > https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/ > > Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations 2 (UofAPress). > Recording Dates (Rubicon Press). > Listen. If (UofAPress): > > There was the usual amount of corruption, intimidation, and rioting. > > Sir Charles Petrie