That 's a very powerful poem.
A rough flamm maybe? Passion and punch.
Tina-------------------------------------------------------------- [log in to unmask] http://www.fatmandancing.co.uk http://www.myspace.com/fat_man_dancing > Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 07:45:25 +0900> From: [log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: snap: cadets (for Max)> To: [log in to unmask]> > LMG: is Light Machine Gun, of which Owens are one.> A flamm is a two stick hit, almost simultaneously, making a rough note, on a> drum.> Drumming took me into chemical warfare on myself. I have since stopped> drumming and drugging. Being an impressionable young poet-drummer is a> dangerous role!> > Andrew> > 2008/10/30 Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>> > > O Andrew, so much visual and verbal felicity...> >> > (not that I know what LMG is short for.> > Owens, I guess, are more modern machine guns than Brens.> > Is flamming a slip for flaming?> > What became of the drumming?> >> > best from Max> >> > Quoting andrew burke <[log in to unmask]>:> >> > > "Hey, watch this."> > > We'd take out their legs first> > > in the LMG group, then> > > go for the body. Regular army> > > left us to their devices> > > on the range. They had> > > made me sergeant because> > > I could play drums. Logic> > > escapes. Here we were,> > > with our Owens, shooting off> > > at the mouth and> > > paradiddling the legs off> > > targets in the secondary dunes.> > >> > > *> > >> > > "Got a Lucky Strike?"> > > we sat at small desks> > > in Junior School,> > > flamming desktops,> > > using inkwells as ashtrays.> > > I drew some triplets> > > and bars of 6/8 to> > > look 'the real thing' should> > > our regular officer saunter down> > > to our practice room. I envied> > > my friend: his mother> > > a famous writer, his left hand> > > more flexible than mine.> > > He never wore his webbing> > > right and his boots had> > > last week's march on them.> > > Now sixty something, he falls> > > between pub> > > and shack, town drunk in> > > a fishing village, happy> > > on his lonesome.> > >> > >> > > Andrew> > > http://hispirits.blogspot.com/> > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/aburke/> > >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > ------------------------------------------------------------> > This email was sent from Netspace Webmail: http://www.netspace.net.au> >> > > > -- > Andrew> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/> http://www.flickr.com/photos/aburke/
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