Ah, you'd be after a Phillipshead then ... I can imagine this yarn extending, Max.
Bill
> On 31 Jan 2014, at 6:01 am, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Thanks, Andrew.
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> My previous sequence, 'Disposals', celebrated the exposure of the corpse on a bare rock for the local vultures while family grieved at a distance till the bones could be removed.
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> But Burke's Remains as ashes?
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> I know someone who took her husband's ashes to their favourite beach, waded out, found the cap of the urn screwed on too night, went to town to the local hardware store…Please help…
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>> On 30/01/2014, at 10:05 AM, Andrew Burke wrote:
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>> Good poem, Max. Very enjoyable - and thought-provoking. (Now, where*
>> should*they spread my ashes?)
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>>> On 30 January 2014 06:27, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>> thanks Doug, and others - staggers! good word.
>>> I still recall my frisson when first hearing that Tennyson's friend
>>> Hallam, having died young, was published posthumously in a book called -
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>>> Hallam's Remains.
>>>
>>> M
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>>>> On 30/01/2014, at 3:51 AM, Douglas Barbour wrote:
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>>>> Aside from enjoying it as the others did, Max, I think your break from
>>> the 3 line stanza works well here. these couplets, then staggers, carry the
>>> tone well...
>>>>
>>>> Doug
>>>>> On Jan 28, 2014, at 11:58 PM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>
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>>>>> My posthumous poem
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