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
>
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> Behalf Of Lawrence Upton
> Sent: 25 November 2011 13:48
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: HEARD POEM
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>
> 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
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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
>> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
>> http://www.mullamullapress.com/QWERTY
>> BLUE ROSE enovel avail. at Amazon, Smashwords and
>> http://etextpress.com/books.htm
>>
>>
>>
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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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