With which I agree, Bill...
Doug
On 2013-02-15, at 1:39 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Duh! I didn't even pick that up, Doug about both being HMs. I just meant that Helen M had played the Queen once and also that she should be allowed dominion over her own bodily lands.
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> Bill
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> On 16/02/2013, at 3:01 AM, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Ah, just how Helen Mirren = HM = Her Majesty & my assumption that this sense of queening it was there...
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>> Doug
>> On 2013-02-15, at 3:00 AM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>> Hard/ How so, Doug? Current Liz unable to be queen of herself you mean?
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>>> 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.
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>>> Unfather Bill
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>>> On 13/02/2013, at 9:52 AM, Douglas Barbour wrote:
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>>>> Yeah, & i think the last line's a bit hard on HM.
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>>>> Though the letters do suggest…
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>> And I want to hear it
>>>>
>>>> C.D.Wright
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>> Douglas Barbour
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>> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=962
>> Recording Dates
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>> And still property is theft.
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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
Recording Dates
(Rubicon Press)
Reserved books. Reserved land. Reserved flight.
And still property is theft.
Phyllis Webb
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