Yeah, ain't that the truth. Still, today and yesterday have been clear
- so someone has shut down some mines. Some days the wind blows and
that helps. (I keep feeding them beans ...)
Androo
On 16/05/07, Patrick Mc Manus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Strewth cobber you had better nip off back to Oz pronto
> P
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of andrew burke
> Sent: 16 May 2007 09:36
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: snap: after berrigan after o'hara
>
> I was thinking of 'old' London before the Clean Air Act of 1953 (is
> the year right? around then). London was enveloped in smog, which they
> happily called 'fog' methinks. But the government acted and the
> buildings were cleaned and the air - so people lived longer. Like you,
> Pa Trick, they lived into a happy retirement :-) Here, they die early
> and no one gives a damn, seemingly.
>
> Androo
>
> On 16/05/07, Patrick Mc Manus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Andrew what's this about London then--------????????signed Patrick
> outraged
> > from fair London town
> > Quote Linfen is Old London town too how odd I usually think of it as
> > something putrid like a Philippines' rubbish tip like Cher- nobyl like
> Hades
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> > Behalf Of andrew burke
> > Sent: 16 May 2007 00:54
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: snap: after berrigan after o'hara
> >
> > ... after Ted Berrigan after Frank O'Hara
> >
> > It's 7.26 a.m. in Linfen it's the 16th of May and
> > it's probably 7.27 in Gibb River but I'm
> > in Linfen I'm eating Chinese bananas and drinking
> > Yunnan Mocha and I'm thinking of how Linfen is Old
> > London town too how odd I usually think of it as
> > something putrid like a Philippines' rubbish tip like Cher-
> > nobyl like Hades
> > I never thought on the Narrows
> > Bridge I'd come to live in Linfen
> > just to see coal-hearted businessmen and corrupt
> > government officials take life away and call it
> > Progress
> > and I never thought Li Bai would be climbing Tai Bai
> > flagon clinking teeth rotten from too much wine
> > brush and inkwell splashing the peach blossom black
> > when we were Young Poets reading Pound and
> > watching the sun come up over North Cottesloe Beach
> > across Rottnest Island
> > I think I was thinking when I was
> > ahead I'd be somewhere like Paris cool
> > fit awash with wine and beautifully loved
> > contemplating my new book of poems
> > to be printed bi-lingual on fine art paper
> > elegant dripping with ennui
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Notes: my wife is in Gibb River Station, far north of Western
> > Australia; Narrows Bridge is in my hometown Perth. All else is obvious
> > methinks. Just fun.
> >
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