a ‘sigh’ is better than the other possibilities…
Doug
> On Oct 5, 2016, at 6:43 AM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> So important how we phrase things all right, Patrick. Or unintended
> violence may ensue. Or was it intended after all?
>
> Bill
>
> On Wednesday, 5 October 2016, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
>> *TAKE*
>>
>> she
>>
>> remarked
>>
>> with a sigh
>>
>> when I said
>>
>> ‘take
>>
>> an axe
>>
>> to him’
>>
>> I meant
>>
>> just to
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>> lend it
>>
>> to him
>>
>> /pmcmanus/
>>
>> /s020/
>>
Douglas Barbour
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Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
Four or five couplets trying to dance
into Persia. Who dances in Persia now?
A magic carpet, a prayer mat, red.
A knocked off head of somebody on her broken knees.
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