Packed with lively stuff, Bill.
And mini-narratives and implications.
I take it Gumtree is one of those website marts.
Fancy not taking with you that old fridge when you move!
Just the thing for beer in the garage or shed…
Prone potentiality is a particularly ugly phrase, as suits, I guess.
Max
On Aug 11, 2015, at 14:46, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Stuff sneaks up on you, squats, settles, millstones.
> Shifting stuff, trudgesome, fraught with unpredictability.
>
> Madness cassette, worth £35 to some Pom I've never met.
> INXS tape in a flip-top box wings its way to Belgium.
>
> Shintaro in purple tunic, brandishing sword left-handedly,
> on creased cardboard card starts an eBay bidding frenzy.
>
> But do you reckon anybody'll take this comfy chair?
> 27 views on Gumtree but no takers. Nor for the old fridge
>
> - still chills to the bone but who will travel, who heft?
> Washing machine, top-loader, clarifies but will not entice.
>
> Nor can a solid queen bed attract prone potentiality.
> Anti-capitalism thrives. Stuff, once it hits house, moulders.
>
> Only knick-knacks move. Hang on: a phone call -
> Someone wants my analog TV - good for video games.
>
> What's a fair price for televisual retrocity. How's free
> sound? Sounds good, he says. Finally, some vacancies
>
> opening up, carpet spaces clearing. A Chinese takes
> a juicer and microwave for $100 and eyes off a water tank!
>
> Stuff comes in as light as a breeze, assumes its place.
> Asked politely to leave, it sulks, limpets, looms.
>
> Stuff this stuff. Feel the stuffing knocked out of me.
> At least redgum whittles down to comforting coals.
>
> bw
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