Never undervalue first readings.
Hal
"How strange we are, to call what happens
anything at all."
--Robert Kelly
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On May 30, 2007, at 12:16 PM, Tina Bass wrote:
> I really like this snap too, Andrew.
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> Hal, on first reading, I thought that your quote said 'Open the
> migraine that calls you'. That was interesting.
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>> From: Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
>> Reply-To: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics" <[log in to unmask]>
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>> Subject: Re: snap: tourist trap
>> Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 10:35:52 -0500
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>> traps snap tourist
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>> Lovely snapshot, Androo!
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>> Hal
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>> "Open the mirage that calls you."
>> --Philip Lamantia
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>> On May 30, 2007, at 10:25 AM, andrew burke wrote:
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>>> Three sticks of incense lit before a Buddha
>>> and I'm making myself happy in a cave in China
>>> trailing a tourist bus full of colleagues
>>> teaching little to a few before
>>> eating something dead to please someone else
>>> absolving the driver of blame for the tortuous road
>>> and the Chinese peoples for the weather and
>>> wondering what the old poets who roamed here
>>> did before the steps were set in stone
>>> before the guides knew the entire history
>>> of each pine cone and snowcapped neighbour
>>> with blues in my ear-buds
>>> wondering what Li Bai would've thought
>>> of John Lee Hooker's mother "It's in him
>>> and it's got to come out" just like smoke
>>> from a cave on the side of Tai Bai mountain ...
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>>> Still milking that trip.
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>>> Andrew
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