Don't bring the bloody gentry innit master L P regaqrds
Ps does it also mean they ladies do qualify P confused as ever
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From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Lawrence Upton
Sent: 28 November 2011 13:38
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: HEARD POEM
A gentleman never qualifies a kind judgment of me
On Mon, November 28, 2011 10:48, Patrick McManus wrote:
> I plum for the Lawrence Upton one!!!!
> Despite........................
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of Lawrence Upton
> Sent: 28 November 2011 10:32
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: HEARD POEM
>
>
> there are already several unannounced poetry loyalty schemes
>
> L
>
>
> On Fri, November 25, 2011 16:23, Patrick McManus wrote:
>
>> I wonder if there is a poetry loyalty card? Sounds dodgy
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>> On Behalf Of Lawrence Upton
>> Sent: 25 November 2011 13:48
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: HEARD POEM
>>
>>
>>
>> That is good
>>
>>
>>
>> I and another were once directed to "the bus ternimus" in the
>> Malverns
>> -- literally it was where the bus turned round
>>
>>
>> and I haven't been able to take terminus (I even typed ternimus at
>> first
>> there) and related words seriously since
>>
>> the local supermarket here in new cross, iceland bless it, urges us
>> to use our loyalty cards with _swipe every trip_
>>
>> does that travel?
>>
>> here to swipe is to steal
>>
>> how many human breaths are squandered asking us if we have this or
>> that card or to enter our PIN when surely we all know that
>>
>> the local boot and shoe repair person in Vauxhall when I were a
>> nipper had a sign in his window _nothing like leather_
>>
>> my heard poem was heard in a Cafe Nerd as I like to think of it.
>> Pronounce
>> it with Greek emphasis, I thought, and it means Cafe Water. That gave
>> me immense pleasure for a few moments; and then I remembered once
>> seeing an Athenian delta shaped like the cafe O
>>
>>
>>
>> and thus black coffee became water coffee became cafe nerd
>>
>> the manageress is a barmaid manque, calls everyone my lovely and
>> chanted those two lines as she applied the final stamp to a loyalty
>> card for the man in front of me
>>
>> her assistant, a trainee barrister -- even they can't get work, old
>> joke I know, gave me a chocolate some days ago
>>
>>
>> i'm not nuts about the stuff and put it in my pocket until I had had
>> coffee; and forgot
>>
>> i found that chocolate around dawn today, brown and gooey oozed out
>> of its wrapper -- I wondered what, and how, i had done in my left
>> trousers' pocket
>>
>>
>>
>> L
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, November 25, 2011 02:27, Andrew Burke wrote:
>>
>>
>>> When the 'new' bus terminus (which is now the 'old' bus terminus)
>>> was going up in Perth, one empty shop window declared 'TERMINAL
>>> FOODS - Opening Soon!'.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Andrew
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 25 November 2011 02:49, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Quoting Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> The next one is free.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Try all the specialities.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> oh yes.
>>>>
>>>> Just back from the mall where there's a new boldly signed and
>>>> advertised
>>>>
>>>> 'Confectionary Shop'
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Andrew
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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>> -----
>> UNFRAMED GRAPHICS by Lawrence Upton
>> 42 pages; A5 paperback; colour cover
>> Writers Forum 978 1 84254 277 4
>> wfuk.org.uk/blog ----
>>
>>
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> UNFRAMED GRAPHICS by Lawrence Upton
> 42 pages; A5 paperback; colour cover
> Writers Forum 978 1 84254 277 4
> wfuk.org.uk/blog ----
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UNFRAMED GRAPHICS by Lawrence Upton
42 pages; A5 paperback; colour cover
Writers Forum 978 1 84254 277 4
wfuk.org.uk/blog
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