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Doug, Much more meaningful than other poems I've encountered which begin with that line from WCW. I've had so much experience with hospital waiting rooms and doctors' offices that I've become rather adept at negotiating them by myself or helping others to achieve the best possible result for themselves. I always try to get my primary care physician to write out what needs to be done in the hospital before I get there. Signing in as Dr. Barry . . . often helps, along as I'm willing to "cave" to the "best reporting patient" my doctor has ever encountered or "a pre-med student at Washington University in St. Louis". Barry Another reading, Doug and I see more with your prompt. The procession of filling and emptying. A ritual of care but also inevitability. Bill Thanks everyone. Those chairs fill & empty, Bill, & yet, as Andrew says, each is a separate little country. Did’t write it for the moment, but, phew… Doug > On Mar 12, 2020, at 9:01 PM, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Ah, too many waiting rooms and too many waiting people - I know the scene > well, Doug, you've captured it in its gentle despair. > > Andrew > > On Fri, 13 Mar 2020 at 04:49, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> Doug, >> >> This sounds pretty miserable. Not so much the waiters but the empties >> passing by. Makes Patrick’s poem sound optimistic. Not even any colour of >> wheelbarrow to hope for? >> >> Bill On Thu, 12 Mar 2020 07:52:31 +1100, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >Ah well, at least, Patrick, corona-heaven beats the alternative. > >Bill > >On Thu, 12 Mar 2020 at 4:54 am, Patrick McManus < >[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> thanks Doug waiting! >> >> On 11/03/2020 17:32, Douglas Barbour wrote: >> > so much depends upon >> > who deals with >> > those sitting here >> > >> > & how when >> > >> > the empty chairs >> > fill empty >> > people pass by >> > >> > they all have purpose >> > to serve to save >> > each person sitting here >> > >> > waiting >> > >> > >> > 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