Hard/ How so, Doug? Current Liz unable to be queen of herself you mean?
Pat, we do speak, we chaps, of 'joys' inappropriately, yes, but so do many women who want to push the notion that motherliness is all, surely.
Unfather Bill
On 13/02/2013, at 9:52 AM, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> Yeah, & i think the last line's a bit hard on HM.
>
> Though the letters do suggest…
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> I like the questioning format, though…
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> Doug
> On 2013-02-12, at 2:26 PM, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> 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.
>>
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> Douglas Barbour
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> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2 (UofAPress).
> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
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> Something else is out there
> godamnit
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> And I want to hear it
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> C.D.Wright
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