You can get off there, Andrew but your way may not be marked.
Cheers,
Bill
On 18/07/2012, at 7:17 PM, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> A neat ending:
> *Maybe it all starts here.
> GPS calls all the shots.
> Street signs are so...analogue.
> *
> I love/hate those science programs that prove the planet earth will one day
> be no more, no less. Can I step off at the penultimate stop?
>
> Andrew
>
>
> On 18 July 2012 17:13, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
>
>> So sad
>> P sad
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>> Behalf Of Bill Wootton
>> Sent: 17 July 2012 23:38
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: I've rung the council twice now - Wednesday snap
>>
>> I've rung the council twice now.
>> The problem is
>> I don't live anywhere any more.
>>
>> I still seem to inhabit.
>> I walk through my doors,
>> enter my rooms,
>>
>> even drive on my driveway
>> but my driveway gives onto
>> no street.
>>
>> Some careless car no doubt,
>> (Some carless care perhaps)
>> must have cleaned up the road sign.
>>
>> A neighbour saw the pole,
>> with white sign akimbo,
>> lying in stones, she said.
>>
>> But when I checked,
>> only the dirt crater remained
>> as evidence.
>>
>> It's been two weeks now.
>> The crater is closing over,
>> classification memory dimming.
>>
>> Maybe it all starts here.
>> GPS calls all the shots.
>> Street signs are so...analogue.
>>
>> Bill Wootton
>> 18 July, 12
>>
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> --
> Andrew
> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
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