Yes.
And sweet jesus, Bill, even at 16, to be so crass!
Doug
On Dec 3, 2013, at 1:06 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Things I have stolen
>
> Emerson, Lake and Palmer's Tarkus.
> Gatefold sleeve. Second-hand.
> From Latrobe Records.
> Hippy sellers. 1976 perhaps.
> Favourite track: Iconoclast.
> Now gone, sold or traded.
>
> Martin Carthy's Sweet Wivelsfield.
> New, sealed. Remains in my collection.
> Deram Records. Folk twang.
> Aware still, from the opening pluck,
> when stylus descends,
> of the purloin factor.
>
> A Clockwork Orange.
> Anthony Burgess. From newsagent.
> As a paper boy.
> Thin Penguin paperback. Red cover.
> Green, yellow clobber, black bowler hat cover image
> Now missing unaccountably from bookshelf.
>
> Bottle of claret.
> From gardening employer
> who sacked me.
> At sixteen.
> Mixed with Coke.
> Drunk in the afternoon.
>
> Round fifty cent bits. From Dad's bedside drawer.
> Between fifteen and twenty probably,
> over a two year period.
> Mostly converted to packs
> of cheap cigarettes.
> Black and White.
>
> Two cups of coffee, one skinny,
> one soy latte, from
> Piccolo Meccanico cafe,
> Diamond Creek.
> Just walked away one morning blithely.
> Does unintentional stealing count?
>
> Never cool. Never caught.
> Not slick - lucky.
> Wanted. Took.
> Transactional mismatch.
> Imbalance. Deal
> dashed.
>
> This no poem of loss.
> Poem of gain?
> Poem?
> Equations unrighted.
> Am I yet
> this thief?
>
>
> bw
>
Douglas Barbour
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