Ouch! A rather hard hit, Lawrence.
(It's the 'next door' that sets it all up...).
Doug
On 15-Mar-10, at 4:07 PM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
> I'd been next door at Auschwitz.
> The tea is rather good.
> The conversation is intelligent.
>
> I came back with a rush,
> my coat fully-buttoned still.
> I sat down in a shudder
>
> and made some jokes and coughed,
> everyone inside laughing
> was pleased at me restored.
>
> I told them how things were;
> that photographs provide evidence;
> how tongue slips are strong hints.
>
> Fresh food was brought. Coffee.
> They don't have that there, do they?
> One has to agree, always.
>
> I drank. Greedily. I ate.
> I'd got home now. I roared.
> Together, we all made noise.
>
>
>
> --
> "The desire to testify": interview with Chris Goode
> http://intercapillaryspace.blogspot.com/2010/02/desire-to-testify.html
> ["the fullest, or at least the broadest, account I've yet given of
> what it
> is I think I do and what questions underwrite it" Chris Goode]
>
> ‘a song and a film’ by Lawrence Upton -- Veer Publications / Writers
> Forum
> ISBN: 978-1-907088-05-6 A5 84 pages. 2009. £6.00
>
> "water lines and other poems" by Lawrence Upton - Pdf_16x16 111 pages
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>
> ‘snap shots and video’ by Lawrence Upton -- Writers Forum
> ISBN: 978-1-84254-113-5 A5 52 pages. £6.00
>
> Lawrence Upton
> AHRC Creative Research Fellow
> Dept of Music
> Goldsmiths, University of London
>
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