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Fri Apr 01, 2016 11:53 pm

A lune, apparently ...

Four pints of bitter
and music
aid enlightenment.

The morning after, punctuated and extended ...

Four pints of bitter,
and music,
aid enlightenment,

oiling the doors of
perception
so that they open

easily, without
your falling
through them, slapstick style.
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Sat Apr 02, 2016 8:49 am

The morning after: judiciously (I hope) punctuated and extended.
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Sat Apr 02, 2016 5:35 pm

Nice.

Although I thought "slapstick style" was possibly redundant explanation.
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Sat Apr 02, 2016 6:04 pm

Nice. Maybe I like the "slapstick style" as it makes it a self-critical remark from the speaker...?
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Sun Apr 03, 2016 6:55 pm

Thanks, Seth & Ian. Ian, that was the intention (and hope).

Anyway, day 2, such as it is ... (Shucks, I'm a day behind already). I'm reusing some of an old poem, if you think you recognise anything.

This is Crete. The balcony
of our apartment: breakfasts
of bread and honey, simple
and ambrosial.
It is warm already.
Greek rises like steam

from the seething street below.
The sun is moving across
the tiled floor, awakening
each row in turn
as though they were
the plains of Thessaly.

Here I am, crouched
over a postcard, probably,
distilling the experience
into brisk commonplaces.
The boy looks watchfully
out of his guarded corner.

The girl, more exuberant,
on my other side,
is acting out a healthy
disrespect behind my back.
Instead of a laurel wreath
she gives me bunny ears.
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Sun Apr 03, 2016 7:15 pm

Made me laugh!
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Sun Apr 03, 2016 7:45 pm

Sweet ending.

The plains of Thessaly? Definitely cheating.

Seth
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Mon Apr 04, 2016 7:27 pm

Antcliff wrote:Sweet ending.

The plains of Thessaly? Definitely cheating.

Seth
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Thu Apr 14, 2016 4:42 pm

We fray into the future, rarely wrought
Save in the tapestries of afterthought.
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Thu Apr 14, 2016 5:28 pm

I have fallen by the wayside. No, leave me here. Don't try to carry me. I'll only slow you down.
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Thu Apr 14, 2016 5:47 pm

David wrote:I have fallen by the wayside. No, leave me here. Don't try to carry me. I'll only slow you down.
We've got you tucked into the cart beside the turnips now. You're not allowed to leave.
Rosencrantz: What are you playing at? Guildenstern: Words. Words. They're all we have to go on.
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