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Hi Bill I did not get the refs to Drum and Tally ho -I read poem as someone comforted by rituals cheers On 07/05/2019 23:28, Bill Wootton wrote: > Could change the verbs in the opening couplet to past tense I suppose, > Doug. It is past. Did you have Drum tobacco and Tally Ho cigarette papers > in Canada? > > Bill > > On Wed, 8 May 2019 at 8:13 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> Ah, is this an order, or merely the order you followed those 8 years, Bill? >> >> Because I don’t know the context in which they were necessary, I’m not >> sure I feel the pressure of the poem. >> >> Doug >> >>> On May 7, 2019, at 4:03 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> >> wrote: >>> Never leave home, >>> >>> never walk out the door >>> >>> >>> >>> without patting the pockets. >>> >>> Must hear the reassuring rattle >>> >>> >>> >>> of little wood >>> >>> against little wood. >>> >>> >>> >>> Red nubs forward, >>> >>> blacks back. >>> >>> >>> >>> A wallet’s handy, >>> >>> coins, keys >>> >>> >>> >>> but without matches, >>> >>> you’re still undressed, >>> >>> >>> >>> not ready >>> >>> to take on the world. >>> >>> >>> >>> For eight years, >>> >>> I lived like this, >>> >>> >>> >>> conscripted >>> >>> to ignition, >>> >>> >>> >>> following the Drum, >>> >>> Tally Ho ... >>> >>> >>> >>> bw >> 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): >> >> >> Four or five couplets trying to dance >> into Persia. Who dances in Persia now? >> >> A magic carpet, a prayer mat, red. >> A knocked off head of somebody on her broken knees. >> >> Phyllis Webb >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ######################################################################## >> >> To unsubscribe from the POETRYETC list, click the following link: >> https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=POETRYETC&A=1 >> > ######################################################################## > > To unsubscribe from the POETRYETC list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=POETRYETC&A=1 ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the POETRYETC list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=POETRYETC&A=1