A kind of a find, Bill; taking your time to get there, but then, there it (she) is.
Fun.
Doug
> On Oct 9, 2018, at 3:23 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> What can I have meant?
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> The vi?
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> A saved note on my iPad
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>
> The view?
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> The vicissitudes of living in a tourist town
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> as I do
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>
> The vinegar?
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> A shopping list beginning?
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> Surely not tapped on screen
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>
> Vika and Linda Bull tickets?
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> No, Daylesford’s Wellness Festival
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> has collapsed. And besides, The Vika?
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>
> Vicroads rego online?
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> Nah, did that a couple of months ago
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> Virgin flight? No, no holiday in the offing
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>
> Vision Australia? Searching for something
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> for Mum, near-blind now. But again,
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> not The Vision Australia
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>
> Narrowing down, the v
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> is lower case
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> The victory, The vice?
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>
> Clearly incomplete, why
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> did I stop typing?
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> Ah, I have it
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>
> Monday afternoon,
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> seeking the Gwen Harwood poem
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> with the blackbird fretting
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> thumbing my copy
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> of Selected Poems, drawing a blank
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> until it falls open on the broken spine
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>
> and there it is.
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> It is dusk, and cold. I kneel to pick
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> The violets.
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>
> bw
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