Hi Doug
>Give up Trying to suppress the character. It has lots of
Persistence.
Not I? But Elidius... these believers..
>I see at least a neat little chapbook by that name....
>And this one belongs in it...
Course you mean a chapbook, not a chapbook. Over here that's one
sheet of paper folded and torn into 8 pp
Yes, a chapbook'd be good. I dare say that in due course I must be
quite harsh with Brother Elidius
thanks
L
Doug
On 2012-11-01, at 7:42 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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>
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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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Douglas Barbour
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