A sharp sketch, L, & fixed, now, in time...
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On May 14, 2014, at 7:07 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> palms queues
>
> a worried man, perhaps, looking over his glasses at me, a short while ago,
> when I sat in this, which, I suppose, is a reception chair
>
> looking at money; *seems* worried; just now; cubic inches of notes in
> dulled multicolour; and an adding machine, which he taps at random
>
> my love, drawn and tired, this and that looking, a bird
>
> woman with chemical-gold hair and silver shoes
>
> anxious woman in smart black pleated skirt and white silk blouse; handsome;
> wedding ring; stockings -- it's thirty-nine degrees -- sandles with one and
> a half inch heels; face taut with temporary concern showing the structure;
> gold plate bangles; thirty-five perhaps; but, now, as she turns, and as she
> pulls at the door, more likely forty, and may be more
>
> tall man in jeans
>
> woman in dress of the geometric period
>
> on the wall, great bank notes of the past, I suppose, in frames; visa
> travellers cheques no apostrophe; hand-written note in Greek saying closed
>
Douglas Barbour
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