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Thanks, Patrick, I think, and Doug. Just wondering now, whether that finale fits, given the opening where Dick Diver does know it and indeed proclaims it. Bill On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 at 3:51 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Bill > > I ike the matching of repose to cool, & can almost follow that long 4th > stanza on the cricketeers who do & do not have it, but that is parochial in > its way (although an american would probably use baseball the same way, > with bemusement from many around the world). > I do think the finale works very well, those last 2 lines, sharp. > > Doug > > On Feb 11, 2020, at 1:54 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > > > Having repose > > > > > > They were looking over the other patrons of the restaurant to see if they > > had repose - Dick said no American men had repose, except himself, and > they > > were seeking an example to confront him with. > > > > > > - F Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night > > > > > > i > > > > > > Before cool, > > > > before Brando, > > > > before Birth of the Cool, > > > > the 1949 Miles sessions, > > > > even before Lester Young, > > > > ten years before that, > > > > Scotty’s Dick Diver had repose > > > > in spades. > > > > And sought, > > > > largely in vain, > > > > fellow reposers. > > > > > > He had his Zelda-like Nicole of course > > > > and besotted 18 yo Rosemary > > > > and he had Paris. > > > > > > ii > > > > > > What’s cool? > > > > Stepping back, > > > > stepping out? > > > > Ability to take it > > > > on the chin perhaps. > > > > Unruffledness. > > > > Allowing things to just > > > > drip > > > > off you. > > > > > > Not restricted to jazz musicians > > > > or Jazz Age hipsters, > > > > cricketers can be cool. > > > > But not all. > > > > Shane Warne may have spun himself > > > > into the record books > > > > but was too ornery > > > > to have repose. > > > > Look to black for that - > > > > gum-chewing, all-smiting Viv Richards, > > > > even fielding at mid-on had it in his smile > > > > or even white Waugh, Mark, > > > > the seconds-older twin of captain Steve, > > > > finesser of strokes, > > > > accepter of swished outs with aplomb, > > > > surely displayed repose. > > > > > > Top flight sportsmen, purring actors, musicians, > > > > socialites, are not the only ones. > > > > Unselfish, stylish flourishes > > > > can be the province > > > > of any of us. > > > > Unless > > > > we know it. > > > > > > 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): > > > Done in by creation itself. > > I mean the gods. Not us. Well us too. > The gods moved into books. Who wrote the books? > We wrote the books. In whose dream, then are we dreaming? > > Robert Kroetsch > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ######################################################################## > > 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