Lawrence - they steal yr signature for fraudulent activities! Just sign
'Lorry' next time and stymie their game ...
On 28 November 2012 22:15, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
>
>
> It's interesting sometimes that one finds a book which the
> recipient
> had ASKED be signed
>
>
>
> L
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics"
> To:
> Cc:
> Sent:Wed, 28 Nov 2012 22:13:48 +1100
> Subject:Re: 'Auntie Effie's Gift'
>
> Ah, Max, I know the feeling well. A few paintings and prints have
> landed in
> op shops in West Aust just before we left its shores. I couldn't do
> it with
> books because most of those who wrote them still cruise the op shop
> shelves
> and may spot them. (I've found a couple of my signed copies in second
> hand
> bookshops over the years - oh the shameful memories of why I
> blatantly
> tried to influence their view of me!)
>
> Good poem. I'd take out all quality references to the painting - just
> let
> the quandary speak for itself.
>
> Andrew
>
> On 28 November 2012 18:20, Patrick McManus wrote:
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> > Max how could you throw away Aunt Effie's painting painted with
> love for
> > you!!
> > You heartless dog loving monster
> > Cheers P
> > Ps one of her awful so called 'botched paintings sold for £1
> million
> > recently
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> > Behalf Of Max Richards
> > Sent: 28 November 2012 06:08
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: 'Auntie Effie's Gift'
> >
> > Auntie Effie's Gift
> >
> > She'd done the painting -
> > I had to thank her,
> > and take it with me
> > home to Australia.
> >
> > But truly, it was a botch -
> > which was all I'd expected.
> > What was my favourite
> > Auckland view? I'd told her -
> >
> > Judges Bay, the tide in,
> > St Stephen's white Chapel
> > on the sloping turf
> > with its settlers' graves.
> >
> > There they are, the lot.
> > And a skyline of trees
> > vague, indeterminate,
> > though doubtless pioneer.
> >
> > But her art! her skills!
> > conspicuous by their
> > total absence!
> > She wrapped it -
> >
> > Uncle Albert had
> > already framed it -
> > away we went.
> > Decades it sat
> >
> > in the darkest corner
> > of several successive
> > Melbourne addresses,
> > this latest surely its last.
> >
> > Downsizing requires
> > we part, her daub and me.
> > Yet - bin it? too cruel.
> > Leave at a charity shop?
> >
> > Most likely they'd bin it.
> > Is there a shredder might take it?
> > Burning would be the thing,
> > if bonfires were still permitted.
> >
> > Effie herself I last saw
> > in a hospital bed
> > near death from cancer.
> > I held her painting hand, said
> >
> > I'd speak at her funeral -
> > a promise I broke.
> > Albert went soon after.
> > Her paintings? gone.
> >
> > That view is still a favourite -
> > Judges Bay, the tide in,
> > St Stephen's wooden Chapel,
> > sloping turf, old graves.
> >
>
> --
> Andrew
> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
> 'Undercover of Lightness'
> http://walleahpress.com.au/recent-publications.html
> 'Shikibu Shuffle'
>
> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/new-from-aboveground-press-shikibu.html
>
>
--
Andrew
http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
'Undercover of Lightness'
http://walleahpress.com.au/recent-publications.html
'Shikibu Shuffle'
http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/new-from-aboveground-press-shikibu.html
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