I agree this one is full of marvels Simon, I wanted to write a reply but it got 
too long winded.  It could be an excellent stand-alone poem, or with drawing 
(which I haven't viewed yet), or as part of an epic of word/image combinations.

My own project this AM is writing my ML hypothesis in pencil in margins of a 
smudged b/w photocopy of same for the decannual "foot in door" show at local 
art museum, everyone gets in if you are from Minnesota, due tomorrow.

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Edward Picot via NetBehaviour <[email protected]>
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Simon,

I especially like this one - the bit about the Water Babies, and


He thought of charcoal eyelashes on parchment

Goggle hats for hearing the inside of shells

New internets and virtual landscapes with tiny bridges


Edward

On 26/09/2020 11:13, Simon Mclennan via NetBehaviour wrote:

Victorian musings

What L thought:


...Lounge in orchards on the hill past the racetrack imagining the Victorians 
in their black chenille petticoats, their ‘tashes, woollen coats that itch, 
spectacles, great long oversized leather shoes like mice, gaping socks fallen 
on the ankle bones of merchants, larl jockeys in real silk colours, fishermen 
imagining Dylan before he existed singing ‘they’re selling postscards of the 
hanging!’, lumpy German tourists who want to start a war and buy bonds what a 
racket!, little lads who sweep chimneys and dream of the deep glassy waters 
where the trout befriend ‘em and they make their way in illustrations of tiny 
babies to the sea, a dream of hot chimneys, ‘orrible bosses, made to scratch 
and clear flus, err wot else — yeah great carts full of apples and pears and 
bunches of violets, an Italian vagrant lies beside a bush, he sings some bits 
of opera, la la la la in a bass voice, then reads his book about hop picking in 
Kent, the young lad found feverish in the hops, the story of it all, the summer 
so long, the little dogs with ribbons, the cats outside the back door, 
minibuses on trips, larders, tomato sandwiches, salt and pepper pots and all 
that mouldy malarkey.

L writ this in his diary one time.

He thought of charcoal eyelashes on parchment

Goggle hats for hearing the inside of shells

New internets and virtual landscapes with tiny bridges

A pencil

Durer’s scratching tool...


S.

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