A kind of bush ballad for your parents.Bill? Back to their youth?
Doug
On Dec 25, 2013, at 4:58 AM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Me actually, Pat. Perhaps your message was scra m bled.
>
> Bill
>
> On 25/12/2013, at 9:11 PM, Patrick McManus wrote:
>
>> Max thanks -Scrabble is a great test for partners -how to lose now and then
>> convincingly -though recently less of a problem P of fading words fad wor
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>> Behalf Of Bill Wootton
>> Sent: 24 December 2013 21:43
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Diamonds
>>
>> Diamonds
>>
>> When two get together,
>> there's yang and there's yin.
>> That's certainly the case
>> with Laurel and Jim.
>>
>> Dad's a prac man
>> who fixes and fits.
>> Mum reads her fiction
>> when time permits.
>>
>> Mum's keen on the footy,
>> loyal to the Tiges.
>> Dad tips against them
>> But that's no surprise.
>>
>> Dad's scared of onions,
>> Mum likes hot spice.
>> Dad's meat and three veg
>> Mum's curry and rice.
>>
>> Mum likes her film stars
>> From Brando to Newman.
>> Dad'd rather do the crossword
>> to make him feel human.
>>
>> But for sixty years now,
>> they've been brooks that babble
>> Just don't come between them
>> when they settle to Scrabble.
>>
>
Douglas Barbour
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Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2 (UofAPress).
Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
Something else is out there
godamnit
And I want to hear it
C.D.Wright
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