Hi all,
I'd been having trouble with posting my feedback to you for last week. I'll
organise this again when I get a minute (which has been difficult this week) &
likewise read yours.
Meantime, I've written something for this week's challenge.
Thank you everyone for your patience with me. With what I've read so far, I am
gobsmacked. 😊
Cheers
Mary
Mary Stone | Liaison Support Librarian, Fine Arts and Music
Scholarly Services | University Services
Lenton Parr - Music, Visual and Performing Arts Library | Southbank
The University of Melbourne Victoria 3010 Australia
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\f0\b\fs28 \cf0 The shit people leave in books / by Mary Stone\
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most of my books are\
up\
off the floor now\
organised by their look\
I\'92m not supposed to judge these\
by their covers\
some shift\
categories\
are everything\
are nothing\
some are tombs\
when people stop\'85
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\i\fs20 \cf2 Fowler\'92s modern English usage
\i0 . 2nd ed. (1965)\
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[tram ticket] \
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Melb & Metrop. Tramways Board. \
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[recto:]\
7d. AHb 142060 \
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[verso]:\
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\i Ask for STAMINA self-supporting trousers. \
\i0 Thought for the day:\
\i To forgive an injury means to also forget an injury
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\i0\b she watched him juggle three balls\
pull the cord at the same time\
ladies crooned\
babies whined\
the embossed ceiling & giant deco light-fitting\
scared her\
like she was in the 30\'92s\
when the Depression was greater \
than it is now\
the wood surrounding her was solid\
made her safe\
\'93I will always love you Eileen\'94\
carved into it\
made her long for a man of passion\
Eileen is not a modern name\
Modern is a word for fools\
\'93Tickets please\'94\
he\'92s got tickets on himself\
she thought\
as she stared out the window
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[2nd book]:\
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\i\fs20 \cf2 Call me Abigail
\i0 / by Abigail. (1973)\
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\b corrugated\
for her pleasure\
she ran her fingers along\
the metal fence\
the one that surrounded the pit\
where men in white sedans\
dumped dead girls\
naked\
wearing only one white \
sock\
the same pit\
that snakes her head\
every time\
she thinks\
of you
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[3rd book]:\
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\i\fs20 \cf2 Helen in musical comedy
\i0 / Linda Graeme. [n. d.]
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prunes\
gravey [sic] colouring\
Velvet soap\
dripping\
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\b \'93Table tennis champion\'94\
Mum said\
\'93Got dux for that at school\
Light on my feet\
So light\'94\
as she danced round the kitchen\
singing \'93The Merry Widow\'94\
her favourite lullaby \
to us\
whilst Dad tripped over her feet\
\'93What\'92s for tea Mum?\'94\
\'93Pigs trotters n chokoes\'94\
\'93Aw Mu-um!\'94\
\'93No - tonight\'92s special will be lamb\'92s brains\
mushed in with egg n mashed spuds\
Good for you Darling\'94\
Dad said \
he used to carry the kidneys \
on a rose-petaled dish\
fresh from the kill\
still warm\
for his mother to cook\
offal\
my parents\
just offal\
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[4th book]:\
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\i\fs20 \cf2 Cosmopolitans /
\i0 W. Somerset Maugham. (1936)\
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\i \'93It\'92s our flag - Fight for it, Work for it & for the love of Heaven
DON\'92T BE DISLOYAL TO IT by killing the male rabbit, rat, sparrow &
starling\'85\'94 / by W. Rodier B. F. (Buck Farmer)
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\i0\b we are creatures\
that go bang in the night\
I swallow mosquito larvae\
from last night\'92s wine\
feel my body itch\
from the inside\
I feed the birds\
the bits of my heart\
that you gouged out\
on the bedroom floor\
where my body aches\
where I don my best bunny ears and fluffy tail\
pretending I\'92m her\
I say\
\'93Come here for cuddles?\'94\
you stab me with her name\
again\
and again\
and again\'85\
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[5th book]:\
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\i Pocket \'93MAN\'94. (
\i0 June, 1955)
\i
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vomiting
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\b \'93Where did we go wrong?\'94\
Mum said\
she licked her paw\
then my face\
wiping away marks\
that were never there\
\'93Cleanliness is next to Goldiness\'94\
she said\
we laughed at her mistake\
she clipped our ears\
before we got on the bus\
\'93Your diction has gone downhill\
ever since you went to school\'94\
I make sexist jokes\
just like Benny Hill\
every Tuesday night\
on Channel Oh!\
with Mum n Dad\
in tears
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\b \
\'85 the shit people leave in books\
that\'92ll be the title of the next exhibition\
I\'92ll curate\
if anyone ever cares to come \
to Lilydale\
I\'92m sitting on the floor here\
not on the shelf
\i\b0 \
\i0\b contemplating\
me & you
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