Thanks, David
There was actually a little boy named Peter. I can't recall whether
Barrie was related to him or he was the son of a friend. Barrie dressed
him up like Peter Pan and took some photos of him. The young boy grew
to hate being compared to Peter Pan. People wouldn't let him forget
it. Eventually in not quite old age he committed suicide by jumping in
front of a train.
Lawrence
On 4/8/2021 8:45 PM, david ritchie wrote:
I like this very much. What is the reference to “hit his train head on?”
Barrie’s conflict with PG Wodehouse has been in my mind. He seems a very unforgiving person.
David
On Apr 6, 2021, at 5:26 PM, Lawrence Helm <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Do you know how to hop
About with just one leg?
Harder than you’d think.
Muscles grab that you didn’t
Know you had. Meanwhile
Josh waits while Jessica
Barks her permission
For him to go out back to
Mow, edge. Edgy when I read
Barrie wrote Robert Louis
In Samoa. Imagined things
Which more or less became
The boy who never grew who
Instead hit his train head on.
One needs to grow is the lesson
Here, even if it means growing
Old. How old can one grow you
Ask? He’s mowing now. Jessica
Seems to be chewing a wall.
Walls surround. No chewing
Anyone’s way through any.
Someone will tell us when
We’re to be shot. Someone
Is always shooting. Wars
Are endemic. Shouting, too
When regimes change. Clouds
Descend bringing rain.
I hop up on one leg to see.
