Reformed?
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From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Lawrence Upton
Sent: 03 August 2012 16:22
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Subject: Re: A sign (post) - breaking news - in verse
It's in the house of lords
L
On Fri, August 3, 2012 17:12, Patrick McManus wrote:
> Bill-What happened to the skull??
> P- concerned
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> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of Bill Wootton
> Sent: 02 August 2012 08:32
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> Subject: A sign (post) - breaking news - in verse
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> A sign
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> I'd already kicked up the customary dust which announced the departure
> from main road bitumen when it hit me. I'd known precisely where to
> turn. The sign was back! Or a brand spanker installed.
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> I didn't even pull over. Just puttered on, slow smile unpeeling as the
> bolt upright pole and firm, white, shiny metal plaque retreated in my
> rear view mirror. My rear view mirror, My pea-green, last-century
> Corolla, My road, returned.
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> I am actual again.
> Designated.
> Located.
> Emplaced.
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> So why does it still not feel right?
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> The taking away tilted something
> which hasn't fully righted. For a while there, I was etherised.
> It's not such a simple matter.
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> Being raised from the ranks of the unnamed.
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> Bill Wootton
> 2 August, 2012
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Lawrence Upton
Visiting Fellow, Music Dept,
Goldsmiths, University of London
New Cross, London SE14 6NW
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