Have a barista edit it.
Andrew
On 3 November 2012 00:24, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Thank you very much, Jill; very much indeed
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> Sent:Fri, 2 Nov 2012 08:25:26 +1030
> Subject:Re: a word from a patron saint
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> the first line - the I and im
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> and the movements between endstop, enjamb, caesura
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> much else to like
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> agree with Doug, give him a chap (and a coffee)
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> On 02/11/2012, at 12:12 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
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> > [It being a saintsy sort of day. I've let Elidius out of his coffin
> > and invited him to say a few words.
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> > Elidius, the patron saint of frothy coffee]
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> > Implausibly, I imagine as I move,
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> > the morning sky mingling with my sullen look.
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> > There was a single time. Disregard it,
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> > now no more than the downs covered in weed
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> > towards the direction of the city in wonderment.
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> > There is no city. Only the deepening water.
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> > Ordered. The edge fractured.
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> > Unthinkably, the last man in the world.
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> > Far removed from personal light. From control
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> > of a new question. Trying to suppress the character.
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> > Persistence. The giving ungiving enters his mouth.
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> > He speaks the sea story pouring into him.
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> > He puddles it, hard-skilled in acts of preservation
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> > untrustworthy depths of fact. The path we took.
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> > Between need and thought, held to by fear, scrawled.
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Andrew
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