Diverting enough, Max. Just wondered about that 3-line stanza with the book details in the middle of your 4-liners. And do you intend us to make anything of the observation about the plastic-covered renovations? Bodily renovations soon to come? Would you consider interchanging your final two lines?
Bill
> On 28 May 2015, at 1:34 am, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> In the bookshop armchair next to me
> a handsome tall woman
> with long black hair has just sat down
> with two big books on names for babies.
>
> Yes she is visibly pregnant
> and I would say in the pink
> of health if she wasn’t
> of Asian appearance.
>
> She seems to be contemplating
> Charlotte - no, Mary - now boys’ names
> equally. It pleases me that she
> may not know which to expect.
>
> Inspired Baby Names is the bigger book -
> ‘6000 from around the world’.
> Author: Neala Shane.
>
> ‘If you like Adam, you might like…’
> goes one entry. Her iPhone
> distracts her a moment.
> Now she’s at Adeline…
>
> Why not search the web?
> Such a book will have been
> compiled off the web
> by mechanical means. Clemence?
>
> Her phone is bigger than mine.
> Is she aware of my spying?
> The shop fans revolve. Evening sun
> streams through the skylights.
>
> There’s no one at the Information desk -
> oh yes, he’s back. What was the cafe
> is swathed in black plastic
> for renovations to be unveiled next month.
>
> Now she reads a section headed Color...
> turns to: Eternal, Garden, Gift, God Allah Male -
> each category must list possible names!
> Goddess Female Ambrosia I see.
>
> Her finger is on Grace Female,
> now: Handsome Healthy…
> Her brown boots reach almost to her knee.
> Enough - she’s up and away.
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