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Thanks Doug. See your point.

First car 2


Mine was a Morris 1100

Open any of its four doors

and behold

vinyl

a bench seat reaching

to its opposite door

not vast

not plush

but an enclosable space


Teenage private space matters

The home toilet is intermittently yours

and you can zone out in your bedroom

but these are static sites


The inside of your first car

is a sacred space

Move in it

do things in it

be awake in it

just plain sit in it

under a tree

in a garage

on the street


knowing all the while

that your space

is on wheels

At your whim

you and your space

can be anywhere

You are lord

of its dominion


 Bill

On Thu, 18 Jun 2020 at 2:17 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> A neat image of the car, Bill, but I think you could cut stanza 2 down to
> about 2-3 lines, mentioning the rooms tat don’t qutework but not needing th
> explanations…
>
> Doug
>
> > On Jun 17, 2020, at 9:35 AM, Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> > :):):)
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> > On Tue, Jun 16, 2020, 11:55 PM Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Implied, Patrick
> >>
> >> Bill
> >>
> >>> On 17 Jun 2020, at 4:17 pm, Patrick McManus <
> >> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> ah you old teenager and what about early romance ?cheers P
> >>>
> >>> On 16/06/2020 22:41, Bill Wootton wrote:
> >>>> Open any of the four doors
> >>>>
> >>>> of a Morris 1100
> >>>>
> >>>> and behold
> >>>>
> >>>> vinyl
> >>>>
> >>>> a bench seat reaching
> >>>>
> >>>> to its opposite door
> >>>>
> >>>> not vast
> >>>>
> >>>> not plush
> >>>>
> >>>> but an enclosable space
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Teenage private space matters
> >>>>
> >>>> The home toilet is yours
> >>>>
> >>>> for the duration of evacuation
> >>>>
> >>>> but so what
> >>>>
> >>>> Your bedroom as a kid
> >>>>
> >>>> especially if it is yours alone
> >>>>
> >>>> counts
> >>>>
> >>>> but it is an allocation
> >>>>
> >>>> and much of the time in there
> >>>>
> >>>> by definition
> >>>>
> >>>> you are asleep
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> The inside of your first car
> >>>>
> >>>> is a sacred space
> >>>>
> >>>> Move in it
> >>>>
> >>>> do things in it
> >>>>
> >>>> be awake in it
> >>>>
> >>>> just plain sit in it
> >>>>
> >>>> under a tree
> >>>>
> >>>> in a garage
> >>>>
> >>>> on the street
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> knowing all the while
> >>>>
> >>>> that your space
> >>>>
> >>>> is on wheels
> >>>>
> >>>> At your whim
> >>>>
> >>>> you and your space
> >>>>
> >>>> can be anywhere
> >>>>
> >>>> You are lord
> >>>>
> >>>> of its dominion
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> bw
> >>>>
>
> Douglas Barbour
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> gnawing with very sharp teeth.
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