Hi Bill snaps are usually sent on Wednesdays -we build up into a heat of
excitement
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From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Bill Wootton
Sent: 27 May 2012 10:38
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Subject: School snap
You're rubbing shoulders,
sings Brian Ferry, for My pleasure
thanks to a free-ranging I-pod
as I pull into Reservoir High's empty car park.
Twa magpies conspire on asphalt.
One actively beaks a discarded chip packet
seeking morsels while the other waits.
The seeker seems to see that inversion is required
But it is beyond him.
Ferry flicked, I emerge
just in time to hear a celebratory morming warble issue spontaneously from
the beaks of both birds.
Their interweaving trills harangue the air and bounce off the gymnasium
walls.
I walk toward them. They skitter away.
Upending the packet completely causes
the last remaining skerricks to plop,
the packet bounces off in a sudden wind.
The magpies soar off over the oval
I turn to teach.
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