I'd like to think that, Doug, that only back then, did I turn such stuff
out.
Bill
On Thursday, October 1, 2015, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Like Max, I’m nog sure of what 9-23 means, Bill.
>
> And the rhymes are smart & funny till the last few stanzas; then feel less
> full…
>
> Are they meant to suggest the kind of verse you wrote back then?
>
> Doug
> On Sep 29, 2015, at 9:20 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
>
> > Bits of me,
> > Journals 9-23
> >
> > Unpacking my life.
> > Brownlow to Fyfe.
> >
> > News leaks in.
> > Now far from kin.
> >
> > What I used to be,
> > is that still me?
> >
> > Here a scrawled page,
> > a previous age,
> >
> > concerns about work,
> > plans, moods, eerch!
> >
> > Much more to unpack.
> > Stop submitting to slack.
> >
> > But how unnerving it feels
> > to start new history.
> >
> > bw
>
> Douglas Barbour
> [log in to unmask] <javascript:;>
>
> 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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