Max hope you won't be homeless in that USA place -and all those peilvicfloor
exercises -cheers P
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Sent: 17 September 2014 18:19
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Subject: Seattle Bulletins 1 and 2
Seattle Bulletin 1
Incontinent Traveller, 77
Pelvic floor muscle exercises,
I will not forget you, flying
Air New Zealand, United Airlines;
transit lounges. I may look
to be lounging - exercising,
actually! Otherwise IT may
lose tone, with damp outcome.
Seattle, good to see you.
Sorrento Hotel, you're too
posh for me. Let me sink back
out of sight, while my wife
finds us a place to lease,
close to Seattle U, please,
where she can study, I can
relax, quietly maintain tone
on that pelvic floor muscle
which I bring you, Seattle,
clenched till it's almost normal.
Seattle Bulletin 2
Waiting for ten to strike
when bookshops open.
This my Seattle favourite
on a previous visit -
the Elliott Bay Book Company -
pure delight in Pioneer Square
in several rooms oddly ranged.
Sad to return - Pioneer Square
no longer - moved to Capitol Hill
where the bookish folk are -
near the Jimi Hendrix statue,
behind on Tenth Avenue.
Step up and in - books to the horizon
and to the cafe. Elliott Bay,
I forgive your move, adore
your prices, so unAustralian.
Wandering Pioneer Square
next day I admire the display:
Bertha the big tunneller
is below. Soon the elevated
freeway goes down there,
restoring the Square to the Bay.=
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