All good ideas, Andrew. Whether I’m up to it, I can’t yet say. Pat, 10
metres is what I converted 30 ft in the article from.
Bill
On Wed, 15 Aug 2018 at 9:05 pm, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Bill, I think it is an opportunity to write a multi-voiced, poly
> point-of-view text - with newspaper report, police broadcasts cut in with
> the voice of the diver. (Maybe a bit of radio chat from drivers, too.) Make
> a radio drama of it - as a poem and a script.
>
> Whaddya think?
>
> Andrew
>
> On 15 August 2018 at 16:33, Patrick McManus <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > opened up story they wanted me to accept cookies -but managed to peer
> > between
> >
> > a drama! thanks Bill -ten metre doesn't sound much for the job
> > anyway!broken ankle?
> >
> > cheers P liked his thoughts
> >
> >
> >
> > On 14/08/2018 23:26, Bill Wootton wrote:
> >
> >> Still working on this one. Any comments? See real story below poem.
> >>
> >> Bill
> >>
> >> Jumped in Detroit
> >>
> >>
> >> Quick calculation from on high
> >>
> >> four - five body lengths stacked
> >>
> >> Call it ten metres
> >>
> >> Plenty ‘nough to do the job
> >>
> >> Just take a bit of a lookie round first
> >>
> >> Tons of traffic
> >>
> >>
> >> Whoah, who’s this
> >>
> >> coming across the overpass
> >>
> >> Ah, boys in blue eh
> >>
> >> No good fellas, too late
> >>
> >> Mind’s made up
> >>
> >> No one’s gonna miss
> >>
> >> this little black duck
> >>
> >> Certainly not Accusing Annie
> >>
> >> This’ll show her
> >>
> >> Who’ll she find to blame now?
> >>
> >>
> >> Hey what tha
> >>
> >> truck
> >>
> >> Where’s that bitumen
> >>
> >> Big semis manouevring
> >>
> >> sidling up next to each other
> >>
> >> right under Coolidge Highway
> >>
> >> clogging up all the lanes both ways
> >>
> >> hell, even between the lanes
> >>
> >>
> >> All traffic’s stopped
> >>
> >> For me
> >>
> >> What’s it to them
> >>
> >>
> >> No room
> >>
> >> If I jump now that’s cut
> >>
> >> It to what ... four - five metres
> >>
> >> Not enough
> >>
> >> I’d just be a broken-boned
> >>
> >> Alive-o
> >>
> >> OK, I’m listening listening
> >>
> >> Maybe today
> >>
> >> Is not the day
> >>
> >>
> >> bw
> >>
> >> 14.8.18
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2018/04/michigan-state-troo
> >> pers-call-truckers-avert-suicide/
> >>
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