Most especially, i like the neat turn of it, Bill.
Doug
On 2012-12-05, at 2:17 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Most especially what, Doug?
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> Bill withers.
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> On 06/12/2012, at 3:23 AM, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Most especially for line 4!
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>> Doug
>> On 2012-12-04, at 1:16 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>> Two questions precede this snap, Petcers:
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>>> 1. Can I get away with the rhymes which end lines 11 & 14? (Is it done to rhyme 'un' words anyway? Or is trammel/travel just too stupid for words?)
>>>
>>> 2. In line 12, is that where the question mark should appear, or somewhere else, or not at all?
>>>
>>> Correspondence will be entered into.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Bill
>>>
>>> Petrarchan argument sonnet
>>>
>>> Why is it that everything I want to do
>>> is a commitment? It's freedom you seek,
>>> you say: blank spaces in the coming weeks.
>>> It's not like I'm proposing a tattoo;
>>> surely we can accept a barbecue.
>>> It's not far to go up to Pheasant Creek.
>>> Distance? It may as well be Mozambique.
>>> Parties, movies, openings, toodle-oo!
>>> Retirement from work should open doors
>>> Things once knocked back can now be accepted
>>> Why want openendedness untrammelled?
>>> Wither spontaneity? always your
>>> riposte, which leaves me feeling all bereft.
>>> Check the calendar for roads untravelled.
>>>
>>> Bill Wootton
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>> Douglas Barbour
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>> Latest books:
>> Continuations & Continuations 2 (with Sheila E Murphy)
>> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=962
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>> away from home.
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Douglas Barbour
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Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2 (UofAPress).
Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
Something else is out there
godamnit
And I want to hear it
C.D.Wright
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