Millicent thanks a tough poem -I was given a copy of 'Only More So' the
other day -hurrah
is it intentional that some words run into each other here??
cheers Patrick
On 09/08/2017 10:12, Millicent Borges Accardi wrote:
> Catching a Case
>
>
> I want it tobe a nice
> Surprise butshe says no
> it can’t bethat way
> You can’t bethat way
> We will neverbe that way
> And neitherwill I
> By myself neither.
> This is nothow it is
> In the placethat is free
> Of the night air. There
> Is a rock,no it is a stone.
> Good evening,this is
> Not how itseems.
> She puts medown
> And I reachfor a gun
> That Isuspect
> Was leftback in the car
> I remembermy dad
> Told me toget some loosies
> On the wayhome
> At thebodega
> Under thebridge and tunnel
> And to dothings tight,
> To be on thetow
> line,waiting your
> Turn, as ifthat were all
> the ways hesaid
> A humancould be
> Or become.As if it were
> Never beforeand yes
> She rubs methe wrong
> Way and itis always
> Off of whatwe will both
> Become 25years from
> Now, a timewithout
> the time offfor bad
> Behavior andyes it always
> Was.
> Does feelthat way
> Exactly thatway,
> as if I was not
> Even human.
>
>
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>
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> Água mole em pedra dura tanto dá até que fura
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>
> To: POETRYETC <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wed, Aug 9, 2017 1:58 am
> Subject: Re: patsnap 799-50? ¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬
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> Doug thanks -that info is lost in the thousands of years - a scrap f
> paper lodged in between sheets of glass
>
> it's raining and cold here
>
>
> On 08/08/2017 15:30, Douglas Barbour wrote:
>> Yes, but who printed it off?
>>
>> Doug
>>> On Aug 8, 2017, at 7:28 AM, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Witty ditty :-)
>>>
>>> Andrew
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>>> On 8 August 2017 at 16:04, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> *FRAGMENT*
>>>>
>>>> it was
>>>>
>>>> a fragment
>>>>
>>>> an ancient
>>>>
>>>> piece of writing
>>>>
>>>> miraculously
>>>>
>>>> spared in the
>>>>
>>>> seven world wars
>>>>
>>>> and by time itself
>>>>
>>>> translated carefully
>>>>
>>>> by archaeologists
>>>>
>>>> it said
>>>>
>>>> ‘Poetryet
>>>>
>>>> Sna’
>>>>
>>>> perhaps it related
>>>>
>>>> to some obscure
>>>>
>>>> writers sect
>>>>
>>>> ‘yet’
>>>>
>>>> seems hopeful
>>>>
>>>> but ‘Sna’
>>>>
>>>> leads to confusion
>>>>
>>>> is generally accepted
>>>>
>>>> that it should read
>>>>
>>>> ‘Snafu’
>>>>
>>>> /pmcmanus/
>>>>
>>>> /s190/
>>>>
>>>> /still can't get this to do single spacing -EEK!!!/
>>>>
>>>> /torments and trialings
>>>> /
>>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Andrew
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>> Douglas Barbour
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