No. It's sneered
L
On 29 January 2015 at 11:11, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Do lovers sneer? Maybe another word I tentatively wonder pitied?
> Disdained??
> dunno
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Bill Wootton
> Sent: 29 January 2015 07:33
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: animals
>
> 'danked' as in unpleasantly moistened, I take it, L. Like it. Reminds me,
> the poem I mean, of something my wife said to me this morning, dismissing
> those who would claim that suffering in humans ennobles. If their God
> exists, would He say that it is good for animals? Or if, she went on, if He
> is omnipotent, why so design humans? Could have come up with a better
> model.
>
> B
>
>
> > On 28 Jan 2015, at 11:58 pm, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> > I said once, to myself
> >
> > or perhaps to my lover,
> >
> > that being close to animals
> >
> > will make us more human:
> >
> >
> >
> > she sneered at me
> >
> > for speaking to a donkey - conversationally -
> >
> > on our way to eat,
> >
> > my hands danked by donkey tongue...
> >
> >
> >
> > it is two way, not magic -
> >
> > a rabbit's foot does nothing
> >
> > but lames the rabbit --
> >
> >
> >
> > seek out animals
> >
> > like one who lost them --
> >
> > non-speakers
> >
>
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