Well, for reading maybe, Bill, but I’m one who needs a very small one to sleep…
Doug
On Jul 23, 2014, at 3:11 AM, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Ha I can identify with all these pillows -feel smothered in them cheers P
> Pillowingly pillowed
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Bill Wootton
> Sent: 22 July 2014 22:08
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Pillows, pillows
>
> Pillows, pillows
>
> Where once
> a brace of pillows
> on a bed sufficed,
>
> now an extra pair
> provide the chance
> to drop and prop.
>
> But wait,
> two more,
> or four
>
> and garnished
> with a cushion
> or two, or more.
>
> What's with
> this excess
> of plumpery?
>
> You almost feel
> you could, like Gatsby
> with his shirts,
>
> just fling them
> in the air, para-
> phrasing Daisy:
>
> 'All
> these
> pillows.'
>
> bw
>
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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