Inside this old codger lurks a small boy…
Max
On Jul 22, 2015, at 10:49, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Are there young people in
> poetryetc????????????????????????????????????????:-)
>
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> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Douglas Barbour
> Sent: 22 July 2015 15:56
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: patt snapp 696 <
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> People will enjoy hearing this, especially the elder set, Pat. As it piles
> them up….
>
> Doug
> On Jul 22, 2015, at 3:44 AM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Good on you, Octo-Pat. Or maybe you should patent that mirror!
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Bill
>>
>> On 22/07/2015, at 6:35 PM, Patrick McManus wrote:
>>
>>> LOOK
>>>
>>> that cold
>>> bleak morning
>>> facing soon
>>> becoming an
>>> octogenarian
>>> he took
>>> a long hard
>>> critical look
>>> at himself
>>> in the cruel
>>> unforgiving
>>> fly specked
>>> cracked mirror
>>> with it's harsh
>>> bright neon
>>> overhead light
>>> and was forced
>>> reluctantly
>>> to admit
>>> how really
>>> absolutely
>>> terrific he
>>> looked
>>>
>>>
>>> pmcmanus
>>> r814
>>> I rather enjoyed using the clichés here -do they work?
>>> then giving unexpected finish :-)
>>>
>>>
>
> Douglas Barbour
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>
> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2
> (UofAPress).
> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
>
> Done in by creation itself.
>
> I mean the gods. Not us. Well us too.
> The gods moved into books. Who wrote the books?
> We wrote the books. In whose dream, then are we dreaming?
>
> Robert Kroetsch.
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