I'm just lining up for a minor exploratory - every two years I swallow some
hospital plumbing. Hope yours is all fine, Max.
My poor 11 year old Cavoodle has to have a leg operation tomorrow. I'm
fidgety and nervous for her like I used to be whenever my kids had to have
something done!
Stay well, Max.
Andrew
On 28 November 2013 10:55, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Like the trundle of the poem, Max but final stanza doesn't work for me.
> Could it just stop at 'ask my wife'?
>
> Bill
>
> > On 28 Nov 2013, at 10:41 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> > I know the feeling, Max.
> >
> > Minor is good. And welcome home asap...
> >
> > Forgetful or no, but then what kept you awake was remembering....
> >
> > Doug
> >> On Nov 27, 2013, at 1:57 PM, Patrick McManus <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>
> >> Best wishes Max dos should go in with you!!P
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On
> >> Behalf Of Max Richards
> >> Sent: 27 November 2013 19:43
> >> To: [log in to unmask]
> >> Subject: 'What Woke Me?'
> >>
> >> What woke me?
> >>
> >> Not the silence of the dogs,
> >> delivered yesterday
> >> to their carers,
> >>
> >> not the dawning city day
> >> of trams and early
> >> morning workers.
> >>
> >> Not the regular breathing
> >> of my sleeping wife
> >> late to bed preoccupied.
> >>
> >> Not certainly that I felt
> >> completely rested
> >> and ready for a new day.
> >>
> >> No, a phrase lodged
> >> in my mind from last night:
> >> Thursday I have surgery.
> >>
> >> (Minor, guys,
> >> a mere 'procedure',
> >> sent home pronto.)
> >>
> >> Not till afternoon, luckily.
> >> Pack a few things,
> >> catch a Malvern tram,
> >>
> >> alight as instructed,
> >> check in composedly.
> >> Yesterday they phoned
> >>
> >> asking about allergies,
> >> medications,
> >> tobacco, drink habits,
> >>
> >> could I walk up
> >> three flights of stairs?
> >> and did I have Alzheimer's?
> >>
> >> No, I said, rather too firmly.
> >> I should have said:
> >> ask my wife.
> >>
> >> And if she'd said Yes,
> >> I could have shouted:
> >> Not me! her! her!
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
--
Andrew
http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
'Undercover of Lightness'
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'Shikibu Shuffle'
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