Dementia, yes, Doug. In, I hoped, a sort of noirish way.
On 19/07/2012, at 1:22 AM, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Also got a sense of dementia, loss of memory, until that final stanza put it in place....
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> Doug
> On 2012-07-18, at 3:42 AM, Bill Wootton wrote:
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>> I can see how you might have thought of this as ghostly on rereading, Max. I had intended, I suppose the first half of the poem to be a bit Kafkaesque, if that's not being too grand. And then to alter the mood to go a bit bemused/political I suppose.
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>> Analogue/ analog ~ is this like program/me?
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>> Cheers,
>> B
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>> On 18/07/2012, at 5:51 PM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>> for some time I read this as the utterance of a ghost but at length I realised it was about feeling like a ghost when your landmark vanishes… neat.
>>> (is analogue the same as analog?)
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>>> On 18/07/2012, at 8:38 AM, Bill Wootton wrote:
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>>>> 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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