I wonder if there is a poetry loyalty card? Sounds dodgy
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From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Lawrence Upton
Sent: 25 November 2011 13:48
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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!'.
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> Andrew
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> On 25 November 2011 02:49, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Quoting Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>:
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>>> The next one is free.
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>>> Try all the specialities.
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>> oh yes.
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>> Just back from the mall where there's a new boldly signed and
>> advertised
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>> 'Confectionary Shop'
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> Andrew
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