Still a bit longer in slippers I'm hoping, Pat.
Bill
On 27/09/2013, at 4:58 PM, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Cheers Bill
>
> “Seven Ages: first puking and mewling
> Then very pissed-off with your schooling
> Then fucks, and then fights
> Next judging chaps' rights
> Then sitting in slippers: then drooling.”
> ― Robert Conquest
>
> I am fast approaching drooling P
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Bill Wootton
> Sent: 27 September 2013 07:44
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: pat snap (ten years on!) _+-=+_ Robert Conquest -Blokes
>
> There was an old bastard named Lenin
> Who did two or three million men in.
> That's a lot to have done in
> But where he did one in
> That old bastard Stalin did ten in.
> ? Robert Conquest
>
> Is this the bloke you are talking about, Pat?
>
> Bill
> On 26/09/2013, at 5:03 PM, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Bill thanks I seem to have a mental bloc? Block! about apostrophes!
>> Amongst other things:-)also I seem to misread a lot these days and
>> have to double check-it couldn't possibly have said that!
>> Just read Robert Conquest-Bloke and Blokesongs was he really 95 when
>> he published it? or were they old poems I enjoyed the content but got
>> rather lost here and there -also thrown in foreign quotes confuse this
>> old bloke Cheers P
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>> On Behalf Of Bill Wootton
>> Sent: 25 September 2013 22:17
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: pat snap (ten years on!) _+-=+_Wednesday, 25 September
>> 2013
>>
>> I liked particularly 'latticed stretching', Pat. They do withstand,
>> those webs, don't they. Now all you need do is remove the apostrophe
>> in line 11 and Spider will be happy.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Bill
>>
>> On 26/09/2013, at 3:04 AM, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>> Yes,
>>>
>>> but watch that 'it's'...
>>>
>>> & welcome to petc, John...
>>>
>>> Doug
>>> On 2013-09-25, at 2:09 AM, "[log in to unmask]"
>> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Nice one Patrick.
>>>>
>>>> John
>>>>
>>>>> ----Original Message----
>>>>> From:
>>>> [log in to unmask]
>>>>> Date: 25/09/2013 8:07
>>>>> To:
>>>> <[log in to unmask]>
>>>>> Subj: pat snap (ten years on!) _+-
>>>> =+_Wednesday, 25 September 2013
>>>>>
>>>>> YESTERDAY
>>>>>
>>>>> yesterday
>>>>> by my front
>>>> door
>>>>> it was just about
>>>>> invisible
>>>>> but today cool
>>>>> with mist
>>>>> in the
>>>> air
>>>>> the cobweb appears
>>>>> in it's glory
>>>>> a masterpiece
>>>>> shining
>>>> shimmering
>>>>> latticed stretching
>>>>> in the
>>>>> early morning's
>>>>> soft sun
>>>>
>>>>> pmcmanus
>>>>> r389
>>>>> hot off the press second drafty
>>>
>>> Douglas Barbour
>>> [log in to unmask]
>>>
>>> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
>>> http://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
>>>
>>> Latest books:
>>> Continuations & Continuations 2 (with Sheila E Murphy)
>>> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=962
>>> Recording Dates
>>> (Rubicon Press)
>>>
>>> Art is always the replacing of indifference by attention.
>>>
>>> Guy Davenport
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