Follow it all with some recognition, Max, &, yes, love that final couplet…
Doug
On Dec 16, 2014, at 6:22 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Love 'creaking at the couplings', Max. Echoes of Leonard Cohen, claiming to 'ache in the places where I used to play'.
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> Bill
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>> On 17 Dec 2014, at 6:59 am, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> A Private Chat
>> with Patrick,
>> so to Speak
>>
>> How’s my sex life?
>> My privates are
>>
>> private, thank you.
>> More neurotic
>>
>> than erotic.
>> Yes, some flirtation,
>>
>> one-sided,
>> be it noted;
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>> a modicum of
>> discreet voyeurism
>>
>> and though it isn’t
>> what it used to be,
>>
>> old replays of nostalgia
>> like top-to-toe neuralgia
>>
>> flooding impromptu
>> through mind and body
>>
>> or at the oddest
>> opportunity
>>
>> twingeing still.
>> How’s yours, you pill?
>>
>> Did you try that pill?
>> Never would, never will.
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>> Ah memories,
>> their long journeys,
>>
>> such long trainloads
>> creaking at the couplings.
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Douglas Barbour
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