Yeah, & i think the last line's a bit hard on HM.
Though the letters do suggest…
I like the questioning format, though…
Doug
On 2013-02-12, at 2:26 PM, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Ah the joys of motherhood!!(often said by men) and we enforce the law if she
> does not come up to scratch
> Patrick non mother
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Bill Wootton
> Sent: 12 February 2013 20:54
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Unmother snap
>
> Unmother
>
> Has 'no maternal instinct
> whatsoever' says yummy
> could-be-granny,
>
> Helen Mirren.
> Of what might this
> consist, this instinct?
>
> A desire to dandy
> on the knee
> a bouncing babbler?
>
> To share your chest
> nipple by nipple
> with tiny progeny?
>
> To raise?
> To sublimate?
> To sacrifice?
>
> To have someone else
> sort your sleep?
> Let body dictate terms?
>
> You can be good,
> you can be kind,
> without having kids.
>
> Or pets for that matter.
> Fair do's to Helen,
> Queen of herself.
>
Douglas Barbour
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Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2 (UofAPress).
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Something else is out there
godamnit
And I want to hear it
C.D.Wright
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