and civilization is generalized….
Seeing it as a beginning, L. The feeling of not quite being there or able…?
D
On Aug 27, 2014, at 10:27 AM, Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I think this way, too, as one must (the optimism, Bill and Lawrence)!
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> Nice.
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> On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 5:04 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
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>> Ha! It may be all we have
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>> L
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>> On 27 August 2014 12:47, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>> Loud buckets, I suspect, L, will trump markets in the end.
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>>> Bill
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>>> On Wed, Aug 27th, 2014 at 7:16 PM, Lawrence Upton <
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>>> wrote:
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>>>> It is half past two in the afternoon.
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>>>> Mechanisms bang away. People scurry.
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>>>> What are we to do? There isn't enough
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>>>> money to continue, they say; nor funds
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>>>> for necessary growth. We are held here;
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>>>> and restrained. We shall be beaten. Markets
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>>>> decide the quality of our justice;
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>>>> our civilisation in general.
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>>>> There is neither time; nor talent.
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>>>> The machines upon which we have relied break
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>>>> and have not been much repaired. What to do?
>>>>
>>>> Someone tips hot soapy water across
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>>>> an entrance foyer. Clatter of metal;
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>>>> the handle swings over, banging against
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>>>> a step, and slips out of her hands, tumbling.
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>>>> Part of the floor pattern chips. She tries to
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>>>> go quietly, picks up sideways the loud bucket.
>>>>
>>>> A droning voice becomes audible, separable.
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>>>>
>>>
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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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