Many thanks, Sheila. Imagination can be an iterative machine.
And I've had some odd nights lately.
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Jill Jones www.jilljones.com.au
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Jill, this really hits home, notably with "Watch how your imagination
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copies your imagination"
Wonderful!
On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 7:22 PM, Jill Jones wrote:
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> THE GODDAM NIGHT
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> Giddy night is more than a container
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> The sources of stupidity lie within
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> Watch how your imagination copies
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> your imagination
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> Yes, it’s the night, the goddam night
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> full of kitschy previews hard-wired
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> to soap plots and merciless roundabouts
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> of a house, a saucerful of spectres
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> an unmemorable mess of misalignments
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> of thought and action, though it seems plausible
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> It’s merely vertiginous, yes, even a dream
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> of falling, but at least for once before you fall
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> you realise you don’t care about the toss
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> Waking life might be life, life might be what it is
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> you fall over it enough
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> knock the cup from the table
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> Jill Jones www.jilljones.com.au
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