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Touche, M B On Wed, 14 Aug 2019 at 4:10 pm, Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hear hear, Millicent! I like it! > > On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 11:08 PM Millicent Borges Accardi < > [log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > An alternative title? > > Being Kept Awake at Night in a Resort Room in Cooktown in Far Northern > > Queensland > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> > > To: POETRYETC <[log in to unmask]> > > Sent: Tue, Aug 13, 2019 11:02 pm > > Subject: Re: Spoken schmoken > > > > Thanks Sheila. The genesis of this piece was being kept awake at night > > trying to sleep in a resort room in Cooktown in Far Northern Queensland. > I > > was intending to ruminate on the weight and volume of word sounds so > > apparently necessary to so many people so late at night. But it came out > as > > it did. > > > > Bill > > > > On Wed, 14 Aug 2019 at 1:32 pm, Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]> > > wrote: > > > > > Bill, > > > > > > You begin in the middle of things, which is effective in this piece. > The > > > trio of segments are Hegelian, seemingly. The synthesis is unexpected. > > > What one is left asking how the infection of language works. Not > > > predictably, surely. > > > > > > Thanks. Sheila > > > > > > > > > Spoken schmoken > > > > > > > > > > > > Do not worry about these words. They are not armed. > > > > > > > > They are assembled. They have however been pressed > > > > > > > > into service. They march toward but never reach > > > > > > > > the edge. They are freighted but not loaded. > > > > > > > > > > > > Other words command. They bristle with intention. > > > > > > > > Achtung! Crocodiles! Across Northern Queensland > > > > > > > > multi-lingual Germans are forewarned riverside. > > > > > > > > > > > > Now let us turn to another bracket of words: > > > > > > > > those unexamined words issued by mind and mouth, > > > > > > > > at volume. Rat-a-tat words, unsentenced outgoings, > > > > > > > > non-words even. Whoops. Hollers. > > > > > > > > When you are under the covers in the night > > > > > > > > it is these > > > > > > > > that are the killers. > > > > > > > > > > > > bw > > > > > > > > > > > ######################################################################## > > > > > > 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 > > > > ######################################################################## > > 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