[lit-ideas] Re: Sunday Twofer
- From: Judith Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 19:42:49 +0000 (GMT)
David, you write betimes. I've just seen our new Cold Weather pundit, who's
setting the twittosphere alight:
http://twitter.com/ScottishWampa/status/8107941953540096
I'll spare you the Tweet array
Judy Evans
--- On Sun, 28/11/10, David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Sunday Twofer
> To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Sunday, 28 November, 2010, 19:05
> What if you didn't know the earth?
> What if you'd landed from planet Plonk and gone for a walk
> downtown, with coin and plastic in the pockets of your
> disguise, a latex mask covering your alien head's bumps and
> suckers?
> You'd look about, wouldn't you, bewildered, trying not to
> stand out or stare, in hot hope of hint:
> instruction.
> With luck, you'd discover it,
> the essence written plainly,
> there for all to see
> high on a sign:
> instruction one, pay,
> and then, step two,
> display.
>
> Truth walked abroad this morning as it does at the finish
> of "Casablanca,"
> with fog swirling on the field,
> engine and alarm noises growing.
> In the no go zone between sleep and wakefulness,
> I was smuggling out a poem,
> containing well-known facts,
> which when reassembled and plated,
> trimmed up like a dish with gravy,
> you would have liked.
> It being Sunday, however, I woke slowly and
> the vision faded.
> In Botswana, they say,
> it is late.
> Here is my apology.
>
> David Ritchie,
> Portland, Oregon
>
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