Half a cloak might do for 2,500 loaves, P.
On Thu, Apr 18th, 2013 at 3:15 AM, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Keeping an eye on my cloak might get served up as a table clothe to
> loaves
> and fishes and the 5,000 poets
> P old crusty mean and worse
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Bill Wootton
> Sent: 16 April 2013 09:25
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Semi snap
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> US rap star Fifty Cent may have had an ancestor in St Martin: Fifty
> Percent?
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> Fourth century Martin,
> later bishop of Tours,
> reputedly gave half of his cloak
> to a near-naked beggar at Amiens.
> Which half I wonder?
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> On awakening, he discovered
> it had been restored to wholeness.
> Beggar back to chilly I presume.
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> Martin's reconstructed cloak
> lived on as an alleged relic.
> At least one Frankish king,
> come the Middle Ages,
> carried it into battle with him;
> oaths were sworn on it.
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> By all that's cloaksome
> and wind-whipped,
> I swear ... to uphold
> the spritual thrust of
> Martin 's semi-gesture.
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