Bill----Gosh I just thought it was summat to do with politics -P
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From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Bill Wootton
Sent: 24 July 2013 23:13
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Subject: Re: Retirement of the Left snap
Trying to spell it out in the end, Doug. Otherwise no one got it. I bought a
new car. It's an automatic. All my previous cars have been stick shift
manuals. So my left leg is now out to pasture, if you will, in the driving
stakes. And it feels odd. Like some sort of betrayal almost. And I thought I
would mask the entire affair in terms of political betrayal.
'Limb' seemed easier to rhyme than 'leg' is all.
Bill
On 25/07/2013, at 1:12 AM, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> For my lost Left Limb?
>
> I wonder, Bill (& what le to this anyway?).
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> Doug
> On 2013-07-23, at 4:14 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Retirement of the Left
>> (a manual partnership dissolved)
>>
>> Once a vital member
>> now lolls on the slack,
>> jabbing ineffectively
>> or prancing on the mat.
>>
>> In the automatic era
>> the Left does not a thing.
>> Services dispensed with,
>> now the Right is king.
>>
>> Acceleration's easy,
>> Take-offs on a whim.
>> But whither opportunity
>> for my Left Limb?
>>
>> bw
>> 24.7.13
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> Douglas Barbour
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