Thanks, Doug. We will be 'garage slewing' (like that, new coinage to me) on Saturday week, followed the next week by hard rubbish collection.
Bill
> On 13 Aug 2015, at 12:58 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Oddly on the mark, Bill. Even if I don’t know half of it. Here, many still hold ‘garage slew,’ at which, I assume,people pick up more suff while others get rid of it…
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> Doug
>> On Aug 11, 2015, at 3:46 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Stuff sneaks up on you, squats, settles, millstones.
>> Shifting stuff, trudgesome, fraught with unpredictability.
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>> Madness cassette, worth £35 to some Pom I've never met.
>> INXS tape in a flip-top box wings its way to Belgium.
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>> Shintaro in purple tunic, brandishing sword left-handedly,
>> on creased cardboard card starts an eBay bidding frenzy.
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>> But do you reckon anybody'll take this comfy chair?
>> 27 views on Gumtree but no takers. Nor for the old fridge
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>> - still chills to the bone but who will travel, who heft?
>> Washing machine, top-loader, clarifies but will not entice.
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>> Nor can a solid queen bed attract prone potentiality.
>> Anti-capitalism thrives. Stuff, once it hits house, moulders.
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>> Only knick-knacks move. Hang on: a phone call -
>> Someone wants my analog TV - good for video games.
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>> What's a fair price for televisual retrocity. How's free
>> sound? Sounds good, he says. Finally, some vacancies
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>> opening up, carpet spaces clearing. A Chinese takes
>> a juicer and microwave for $100 and eyes off a water tank!
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>> Stuff comes in as light as a breeze, assumes its place.
>> Asked politely to leave, it sulks, limpets, looms.
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>> Stuff this stuff. Feel the stuffing knocked out of me.
>> At least redgum whittles down to comforting coals.
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>> bw
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> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2 (UofAPress).
> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
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> Done in by creation itself.
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> 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?
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> Robert Kroetsch.
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