On Friday, December 9, 2005 at 11:01:47 PM UTC-5, Stuart Leichter wrote:
> in article dncli...@drn.newsguy.com, Karla at kar...@sbcglobal.net wrote
> on 12/9/05 2:22 PM:
> > In article <BFBE797A.42DCE%leic...@bellsouth.net>, Stuart Leichter says...
> >>
> >> Moving (tentative)
> >>
> >> Moving packing filling cartons
> >> over days with your lifetime
> >> closing up and sealing the stuff
> >> you have been, (the everything) you own,
> >> Lionel trains, DAK machines,
> >> a pair of socks, the poetry begun, the opened Grape-Nuts,
> >> gradually like cutting off your air
> >> until you can unpack, compare it to surprise
> >> on birthdays, Christmases, and greetings,
> >> putting aside only what you need for the limbo --
> >> a pair of socks, the poetry begun, the Grape-Nuts.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Stuart
> Karla,
> I like your reading a lot, though I don't know if I would like your
> interpretation of it (performed, I mean) as well as the one I tried to show
> (on the page). Follow me down, Karla -- but first, I guess I'm the speaker
> as you put it, the soliloquy is mine, my thoughts. The other day I was
> sorting through stuff that had been boxed or drawered years ago and needed
> sorting and discarding. I found this poem's draft, written 3 abodes ago,
> during one of my more than 25 bona-fide moves. (Thanks for the condolences!)
> But I had (and have) no recollection of writing it. Finding it the other day
> was like what Paul Reiser called being like a gift from God -- like when
> you're walking along and out of nowhere one of your ears 'pops' and clears
> though you didn't even know it was clogged, and Paul goes, "Gee, hey,
> thanks".
> >
> > I like how you repeated "a pair of socks, the poetry begun, the opened
> > Grape-Nuts" after the limbo line. It nicely demonstrates coping with moving.
> Well, it changed by the end, it's a shorter line without "opened". I hardly
> revised anything (I changed 'boxes' to 'cartons'; I changed 'Welbilt bread
> machines' to the more historically-truthful 'DAK machines'; and I added the
> dash after "limbo"). Before posting it, I gave it deep readings. I had to
> because I remembered nothing about its composition (except I could see that
> I had crossed out 'leaving out' and replaced it on the fly with "putting
> aside").
> > You use punctuation in some places and don't in other places where I'd expect
> > it.
> Isn't it fun?
> > The unpunctuated first line is fine as it doesn't trip up the reading.
> It's also unpunctuated -- and obviously so -- as a guidepost or signal,
> because when there is punctuation later it will carry some of the poem's
> fasteners and grommets. You do that, don't you?
> > A
> > comma is needed after lifetime (over days with your lifetime, / closing up and
> > sealing the stuff).
> Could be, but I rejected the idea only because it limits or restricts the
> meaning and forecloses any other interpretation. I want the ambiguity in the
> text; the interpreter can mean "your lifetime closing up" or the way you've
> interpreted. The fun part is how to get it across. (When I drafted it, I was
> doing a lot of live 'reading'; very likely I was composing with performance
> in mind -- hence the reliance on line break and sparse punct.)
> > I didn't particularly like the word "compare" in the
> > eighth line as its unclear whether the speaker will compare or if it's the
> > author suggesting to the reader to compare it to birthdays etc.
> "Compare" is intended to be part of the compund (unspoken 'and') "until you
> can unpack, [and] [you can] compare...". But I guess I'll have to fix
> something there if it can lead to a different reading. It figures, the only
> word in the poem that Shakespeare also uses and I fuckened it up.
> > Putting "the
> > everything" in parentheses is a nice touch.
> That was a major revision for the posting! During my (cough) deep reading I
> really dug having a comma immediately preceding the parens. It's so poetie,
> it's like getting away with murder in RL.
> > "greetings" is a bit vague -
> Ain't it though? But it's unmistakable in its meaning. When no other word
> will do, "greetings" is perfect enough. No? Well, I was being mischievous,
> tooling around with 'universal/particular' in the birthday/Christmas pair
> and making the 'universal/particular' like a moebius strip. Um, I mean, each
> of us has a birthday that means a whole lot mostly to each of us only, and
> Christmas is someone's birthday that means a lot 'universally' but not in
> that way to anyone in particular more than anyone else (least of all to
> whose birthday it celebrates; and then I wanted a Sontagesque third stream,
> beyond 'universal/particular', which would be 'generic' or
> 'one-size-fits-all'. Anyway, that's why "greetings" is there. It's part of
> the semiotics. The industry still calls itself the greeting card industry.
> Btw, on the page you could write that Chanukah lasts eight days because
> there are eight different and correct ways to spell the holiday in English,
> and you could spell out all eight. You might smile at it. But you wouldn't
> do it in Vaudeville. But what if you tried? Here's what always happens:
> someone can't pronounce 'Chanukah' in Hebrew so instead says "Season's
> greetings", maybe capitalizes the 'g' and adds an exclamation point.
> >I
> > don't get a picture of what that might be in comparison to unpacking.
> It's a lesser degree of surprise magnitude and designed to be pictureless.
> Maybe it's too idiosyncratic? I pack away and unpack loads of things that
> used to be greetings but are now something else. I prefer "greetings" to
> 'memorabilia', which sounds like something coined by H.L. Mencken. When I
> unpack them, they greet me, but in a new way -- a way that (in the poem) I
> want to compare to 'surprise'. I think 'reflection' is involved, but I'm not
> sure.
> The altered repeated last line indicates change. Because it's 'poetry', and
> the soliloquy's rhetoric suggests a narrative and dramatic (though
> uneventful) structure, I have to ask if anything changes between 'curtain
> up' and 'curtain down'. If there's more than superficial change, the action
> is dynamic; if there's no change at 'curtain down', it's static.
> There are a few dependent clauses, but the poem is essentially developed by
> present participles; it makes no statement and (I think) hangs on the
> 'limbo' word.
> >
> > If you are the speaker of the poem, my condolences. I hate moving.
> After a while, it hates you back.
> Thanks for greeting my poem!
> Stuart
> >
> > Karla
> >

Quite excellent, one of Stuart L's best... in my opinion...

On Saturday, July 16, 2022 at 4:52:59 PM UTC-4, vhug...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Friday, December 9, 2005 at 11:01:47 PM UTC-5, Stuart Leichter wrote:
> > in article dncli...@drn.newsguy.com, Karla at kar...@sbcglobal.net wrote
> > on 12/9/05 2:22 PM:
> > > In article <BFBE797A.42DCE%leic...@bellsouth.net>, Stuart Leichter says...
> > >>
> > >> Moving (tentative)
> > >>
> > >> Moving packing filling cartons
> > >> over days with your lifetime
> > >> closing up and sealing the stuff
> > >> you have been, (the everything) you own,
> > >> Lionel trains, DAK machines,
> > >> a pair of socks, the poetry begun, the opened Grape-Nuts,
> > >> gradually like cutting off your air
> > >> until you can unpack, compare it to surprise
> > >> on birthdays, Christmases, and greetings,
> > >> putting aside only what you need for the limbo --
> > >> a pair of socks, the poetry begun, the Grape-Nuts.
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> Stuart
> > Karla,
> > I like your reading a lot, though I don't know if I would like your
> > interpretation of it (performed, I mean) as well as the one I tried to show
> > (on the page). Follow me down, Karla -- but first, I guess I'm the speaker
> > as you put it, the soliloquy is mine, my thoughts. The other day I was
> > sorting through stuff that had been boxed or drawered years ago and needed
> > sorting and discarding. I found this poem's draft, written 3 abodes ago,
> > during one of my more than 25 bona-fide moves. (Thanks for the condolences!)
> > But I had (and have) no recollection of writing it. Finding it the other day
> > was like what Paul Reiser called being like a gift from God -- like when
> > you're walking along and out of nowhere one of your ears 'pops' and clears
> > though you didn't even know it was clogged, and Paul goes, "Gee, hey,
> > thanks".
> > >
> > > I like how you repeated "a pair of socks, the poetry begun, the opened
> > > Grape-Nuts" after the limbo line. It nicely demonstrates coping with moving.
> > Well, it changed by the end, it's a shorter line without "opened". I hardly
> > revised anything (I changed 'boxes' to 'cartons'; I changed 'Welbilt bread
> > machines' to the more historically-truthful 'DAK machines'; and I added the
> > dash after "limbo"). Before posting it, I gave it deep readings. I had to
> > because I remembered nothing about its composition (except I could see that
> > I had crossed out 'leaving out' and replaced it on the fly with "putting
> > aside").
> > > You use punctuation in some places and don't in other places where I'd expect
> > > it.
> > Isn't it fun?
> > > The unpunctuated first line is fine as it doesn't trip up the reading.
> > It's also unpunctuated -- and obviously so -- as a guidepost or signal,
> > because when there is punctuation later it will carry some of the poem's
> > fasteners and grommets. You do that, don't you?
> > > A
> > > comma is needed after lifetime (over days with your lifetime, / closing up and
> > > sealing the stuff).
> > Could be, but I rejected the idea only because it limits or restricts the
> > meaning and forecloses any other interpretation. I want the ambiguity in the
> > text; the interpreter can mean "your lifetime closing up" or the way you've
> > interpreted. The fun part is how to get it across. (When I drafted it, I was
> > doing a lot of live 'reading'; very likely I was composing with performance
> > in mind -- hence the reliance on line break and sparse punct.)
> > > I didn't particularly like the word "compare" in the
> > > eighth line as its unclear whether the speaker will compare or if it's the
> > > author suggesting to the reader to compare it to birthdays etc.
> > "Compare" is intended to be part of the compund (unspoken 'and') "until you
> > can unpack, [and] [you can] compare...". But I guess I'll have to fix
> > something there if it can lead to a different reading. It figures, the only
> > word in the poem that Shakespeare also uses and I fuckened it up.
> > > Putting "the
> > > everything" in parentheses is a nice touch.
> > That was a major revision for the posting! During my (cough) deep reading I
> > really dug having a comma immediately preceding the parens. It's so poetie,
> > it's like getting away with murder in RL.
> > > "greetings" is a bit vague -
> > Ain't it though? But it's unmistakable in its meaning. When no other word
> > will do, "greetings" is perfect enough. No? Well, I was being mischievous,
> > tooling around with 'universal/particular' in the birthday/Christmas pair
> > and making the 'universal/particular' like a moebius strip. Um, I mean, each
> > of us has a birthday that means a whole lot mostly to each of us only, and
> > Christmas is someone's birthday that means a lot 'universally' but not in
> > that way to anyone in particular more than anyone else (least of all to
> > whose birthday it celebrates; and then I wanted a Sontagesque third stream,
> > beyond 'universal/particular', which would be 'generic' or
> > 'one-size-fits-all'. Anyway, that's why "greetings" is there. It's part of
> > the semiotics. The industry still calls itself the greeting card industry.
> > Btw, on the page you could write that Chanukah lasts eight days because
> > there are eight different and correct ways to spell the holiday in English,
> > and you could spell out all eight. You might smile at it. But you wouldn't
> > do it in Vaudeville. But what if you tried? Here's what always happens:
> > someone can't pronounce 'Chanukah' in Hebrew so instead says "Season's
> > greetings", maybe capitalizes the 'g' and adds an exclamation point.
> > >I
> > > don't get a picture of what that might be in comparison to unpacking.
> > It's a lesser degree of surprise magnitude and designed to be pictureless.
> > Maybe it's too idiosyncratic? I pack away and unpack loads of things that
> > used to be greetings but are now something else. I prefer "greetings" to
> > 'memorabilia', which sounds like something coined by H.L. Mencken. When I
> > unpack them, they greet me, but in a new way -- a way that (in the poem) I
> > want to compare to 'surprise'. I think 'reflection' is involved, but I'm not
> > sure.
> > The altered repeated last line indicates change. Because it's 'poetry', and
> > the soliloquy's rhetoric suggests a narrative and dramatic (though
> > uneventful) structure, I have to ask if anything changes between 'curtain
> > up' and 'curtain down'. If there's more than superficial change, the action
> > is dynamic; if there's no change at 'curtain down', it's static.
> > There are a few dependent clauses, but the poem is essentially developed by
> > present participles; it makes no statement and (I think) hangs on the
> > 'limbo' word.
> > >
> > > If you are the speaker of the poem, my condolences. I hate moving.
> > After a while, it hates you back.
> > Thanks for greeting my poem!
> > Stuart
> > >
> > > Karla
> > >
>
> Quite excellent, one of Stuart L's best... in my opinion...

Good find, Zod.

Will Dockery wrote:

> On Saturday, July 16, 2022 at 4:52:59 PM UTC-4, vhug...@gmail.com wrote:
>> > > In article <BFBE797A.42DCE%leic...@bellsouth.net>, Stuart Leichter says...
>
>> > >> Moving (tentative)
>> > >>
>> > >> Moving packing filling cartons
>> > >> over days with your lifetime
>> > >> closing up and sealing the stuff
>> > >> you have been, (the everything) you own,
>> > >> Lionel trains, DAK machines,
>> > >> a pair of socks, the poetry begun, the opened Grape-Nuts,
>> > >> gradually like cutting off your air
>> > >> until you can unpack, compare it to surprise
>> > >> on birthdays, Christmases, and greetings,
>> > >> putting aside only what you need for the limbo --
>> > >> a pair of socks, the poetry begun, the Grape-Nuts.
>> > >>
>> > >> --
>> > >> Stuart
>
>> Quite excellent, one of Stuart L's best... in my opinion...

> Good find, Zod.

Bumped for G.D.

On Tuesday, July 19, 2022 at 3:20:17 PM UTC-4, Zod wrote:
> Will Dockery wrote:
>
> > On Saturday, July 16, 2022 at 4:52:59 PM UTC-4, vhug...@gmail.com wrote:
> >> > > In article <BFBE797A.42DCE%leic...@bellsouth.net>, Stuart Leichter says...
> >
> >> > >> Moving (tentative)
> >> > >>
> >> > >> Moving packing filling cartons
> >> > >> over days with your lifetime
> >> > >> closing up and sealing the stuff
> >> > >> you have been, (the everything) you own,
> >> > >> Lionel trains, DAK machines,
> >> > >> a pair of socks, the poetry begun, the opened Grape-Nuts,
> >> > >> gradually like cutting off your air
> >> > >> until you can unpack, compare it to surprise
> >> > >> on birthdays, Christmases, and greetings,
> >> > >> putting aside only what you need for the limbo --
> >> > >> a pair of socks, the poetry begun, the Grape-Nuts.
> >> > >>
> >> > >> --
> >> > >> Stuart
> >
> >> Quite excellent, one of Stuart L's best... in my opinion...
>
> > Good find, Zod.
> Bumped for G.D.

REPORTED AS SPAM

Will Dockery wrote:

> On Saturday, July 16, 2022 at 4:52:59 PM UTC-4, vhug...@gmail.com wrote:
>> On Friday, December 9, 2005 at 11:01:47 PM UTC-5, Stuart Leichter wrote:
>
>> > >> Moving (tentative)
>> > >>
>> > >> Moving packing filling cartons
>> > >> over days with your lifetime
>> > >> closing up and sealing the stuff
>> > >> you have been, (the everything) you own,
>> > >> Lionel trains, DAK machines,
>> > >> a pair of socks, the poetry begun, the opened Grape-Nuts,
>> > >> gradually like cutting off your air
>> > >> until you can unpack, compare it to surprise
>> > >> on birthdays, Christmases, and greetings,
>> > >> putting aside only what you need for the limbo --
>> > >> a pair of socks, the poetry begun, the Grape-Nuts.
>> > >>
>> > >> --
>> > >> Stuart
>
>> Quite excellent, one of Stuart L's best... in my opinion...

> Good find, Zod.

I thank...

On Tuesday, July 19, 2022 at 3:49:10 PM UTC-4, michaelmalef...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Tuesday, July 19, 2022 at 3:20:17 PM UTC-4, Zod wrote:
> > Will Dockery wrote:
> >
> > > On Saturday, July 16, 2022 at 4:52:59 PM UTC-4, vhug...@gmail.com wrote:
> > >> > > In article <BFBE797A.42DCE%leic...@bellsouth.net>, Stuart Leichter says...
> > >
> > >> > >> Moving (tentative)
> > >> > >>
> > >> > >> Moving packing filling cartons
> > >> > >> over days with your lifetime
> > >> > >> closing up and sealing the stuff
> > >> > >> you have been, (the everything) you own,
> > >> > >> Lionel trains, DAK machines,
> > >> > >> a pair of socks, the poetry begun, the opened Grape-Nuts,
> > >> > >> gradually like cutting off your air
> > >> > >> until you can unpack, compare it to surprise
> > >> > >> on birthdays, Christmases, and greetings,
> > >> > >> putting aside only what you need for the limbo --
> > >> > >> a pair of socks, the poetry begun, the Grape-Nuts.
> > >> > >>
> > >> > >> --
> > >> > >> Stuart
> > >
> > >> Quite excellent, one of Stuart L's best... in my opinion...
> >
> > > Good find, Zod.
> > Bumped for G.D.
> REPORTED AS SPAM

Again, how can an important poetry post be spam?

On Friday, July 22, 2022 at 11:45:16 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> On Tuesday, July 19, 2022 at 3:49:10 PM UTC-4, michaelmalef...@gmail.com wrote:
> > On Tuesday, July 19, 2022 at 3:20:17 PM UTC-4, Zod wrote:
> > > Will Dockery wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Saturday, July 16, 2022 at 4:52:59 PM UTC-4, vhug...@gmail.com wrote:
> > > >> > > In article <BFBE797A.42DCE%leic...@bellsouth.net>, Stuart Leichter says...
> > > >
> > > >> > >> Moving (tentative)
> > > >> > >>
> > > >> > >> Moving packing filling cartons
> > > >> > >> over days with your lifetime
> > > >> > >> closing up and sealing the stuff
> > > >> > >> you have been, (the everything) you own,
> > > >> > >> Lionel trains, DAK machines,
> > > >> > >> a pair of socks, the poetry begun, the opened Grape-Nuts,
> > > >> > >> gradually like cutting off your air
> > > >> > >> until you can unpack, compare it to surprise
> > > >> > >> on birthdays, Christmases, and greetings,
> > > >> > >> putting aside only what you need for the limbo --
> > > >> > >> a pair of socks, the poetry begun, the Grape-Nuts.
> > > >> > >>
> > > >> > >> --
> > > >> > >> Stuart
> > > >
> > > >> Quite excellent, one of Stuart L's best... in my opinion...
> > >
> > > > Good find, Zod.
> > > Bumped for G.D.
> > REPORTED AS SPAM
> Again, how can an important poetry post be spam?

It's a twice-bumped dead thread last active 17 years ago.

Zod has nothing relevant to offer about the poem -- only that he likes it.

Since there is nothing in this thread that could possibly interest me, I attempted to block it from my feed.

Unfortunately, it doesn't appear to have taken.

So, once again... REPORTED AS SPAM.

On Friday, July 22, 2022 at 1:24:06 PM UTC-4, michaelmalef...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Friday, July 22, 2022 at 11:45:16 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > On Tuesday, July 19, 2022 at 3:49:10 PM UTC-4, michaelmalef...@gmail.com wrote:
> > > On Tuesday, July 19, 2022 at 3:20:17 PM UTC-4, Zod wrote:
> > > > Will Dockery wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > On Saturday, July 16, 2022 at 4:52:59 PM UTC-4, vhug...@gmail.com wrote:
> > > > >> > > In article <BFBE797A.42DCE%leic...@bellsouth.net>, Stuart Leichter says...
> > > > >
> > > > >> > >> Moving (tentative)
> > > > >> > >>
> > > > >> > >> Moving packing filling cartons
> > > > >> > >> over days with your lifetime
> > > > >> > >> closing up and sealing the stuff
> > > > >> > >> you have been, (the everything) you own,
> > > > >> > >> Lionel trains, DAK machines,
> > > > >> > >> a pair of socks, the poetry begun, the opened Grape-Nuts,
> > > > >> > >> gradually like cutting off your air
> > > > >> > >> until you can unpack, compare it to surprise
> > > > >> > >> on birthdays, Christmases, and greetings,
> > > > >> > >> putting aside only what you need for the limbo --
> > > > >> > >> a pair of socks, the poetry begun, the Grape-Nuts.
> > > > >> > >>
> > > > >> > >> --
> > > > >> > >> Stuart
> > > > >
> > > > >> Quite excellent, one of Stuart L's best... in my opinion...
> > > >
> > > > > Good find, Zod.
> > > > Bumped for G.D.
> > > REPORTED AS SPAM
> > Again, how can an important poetry post be spam?
> It's a twice-bumped dead thread last active 17 years ago.
>
> Zod has nothing relevant to offer about the poem -- only that he likes it.
>
> Since there is nothing in this thread that could possibly interest me, I attempted to block it from my feed.
>
> Unfortunately, it doesn't appear to have taken.
>
> So, once again... REPORTED AS SPAM.

I thought you couldn't see the thread after you reported them?

On Friday, July 22, 2022 at 11:45:16 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> On Tuesday, July 19, 2022 at 3:49:10 PM UTC-4, michaelmalef...@gmail.com wrote:
> > On Tuesday, July 19, 2022 at 3:20:17 PM UTC-4, Zod wrote:
> > > Will Dockery wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Saturday, July 16, 2022 at 4:52:59 PM UTC-4, vhug...@gmail.com wrote:
> > > >> > > In article <BFBE797A.42DCE%leic...@bellsouth.net>, Stuart Leichter says...
> > > >
> > > >> > >> Moving (tentative)
> > > >> > >>
> > > >> > >> Moving packing filling cartons
> > > >> > >> over days with your lifetime
> > > >> > >> closing up and sealing the stuff
> > > >> > >> you have been, (the everything) you own,
> > > >> > >> Lionel trains, DAK machines,
> > > >> > >> a pair of socks, the poetry begun, the opened Grape-Nuts,
> > > >> > >> gradually like cutting off your air
> > > >> > >> until you can unpack, compare it to surprise
> > > >> > >> on birthdays, Christmases, and greetings,
> > > >> > >> putting aside only what you need for the limbo --
> > > >> > >> a pair of socks, the poetry begun, the Grape-Nuts.
> > > >> > >>
> > > >> > >> --
> > > >> > >> Stuart
> > > >
> > > >> Quite excellent, one of Stuart L's best... in my opinion...
> > >
> > > > Good find, Zod.
> > > Bumped for G.D.
> > REPORTED AS SPAM
> Again, how can an important poetry post be spam?

It isn't...

Victor Hugo Fan wrote:

> On Friday, July 22, 2022 at 11:45:16 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
>> On Tuesday, July 19, 2022 at 3:49:10 PM UTC-4, michaelmalef...@gmail.com wrote:
>> > On Tuesday, July 19, 2022 at 3:20:17 PM UTC-4, Zod wrote:
>> > > Will Dockery wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > On Saturday, July 16, 2022 at 4:52:59 PM UTC-4, vhug...@gmail.com wrote:
>> > > >> > > In article <BFBE797A.42DCE%leic...@bellsouth.net>, Stuart Leichter says...
>> > > >
>> > > >> > >> Moving (tentative)
>> > > >> > >>
>> > > >> > >> Moving packing filling cartons
>> > > >> > >> over days with your lifetime
>> > > >> > >> closing up and sealing the stuff
>> > > >> > >> you have been, (the everything) you own,
>> > > >> > >> Lionel trains, DAK machines,
>> > > >> > >> a pair of socks, the poetry begun, the opened Grape-Nuts,
>> > > >> > >> gradually like cutting off your air
>> > > >> > >> until you can unpack, compare it to surprise
>> > > >> > >> on birthdays, Christmases, and greetings,
>> > > >> > >> putting aside only what you need for the limbo --
>> > > >> > >> a pair of socks, the poetry begun, the Grape-Nuts.
>> > > >> > >>
>> > > >> > >> --
>> > > >> > >> Stuart
>> > > >
>> > > >> Quite excellent, one of Stuart L's best... in my opinion...
>> > >
>> > > > Good find, Zod.
>> > > Bumped for G.D.
>> > REPORTED AS SPAM
>> Again, how can an important poetry post be spam?

> It isn't...

Bingo.

🙂

On Friday, July 22, 2022 at 11:45:16 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, July 19, 2022 at 3:49:10 PM UTC-4, michaelmalef...@gmail.com wrote:
>>> > On Tuesday, July 19, 2022 at 3:20:17 PM UTC-4, Zod wrote:
>>> > > Will Dockery wrote:
>>> > >
>>> > > > On Saturday, July 16, 2022 at 4:52:59 PM UTC-4, vhug...@gmail.com wrote:
>>> > > >> > > In article <BFBE797A.42DCE%leic...@bellsouth.net>, Stuart Leichter says...
>>> > > >
>>> > > >> > >> Moving (tentative)
>>> > > >> > >>
>>> > > >> > >> Moving packing filling cartons
>>> > > >> > >> over days with your lifetime
>>> > > >> > >> closing up and sealing the stuff
>>> > > >> > >> you have been, (the everything) you own,
>>> > > >> > >> Lionel trains, DAK machines,
>>> > > >> > >> a pair of socks, the poetry begun, the opened Grape-Nuts,
>>> > > >> > >> gradually like cutting off your air
>>> > > >> > >> until you can unpack, compare it to surprise
>>> > > >> > >> on birthdays, Christmases, and greetings,
>>> > > >> > >> putting aside only what you need for the limbo --
>>> > > >> > >> a pair of socks, the poetry begun, the Grape-Nuts.
>>> > > >> > >>
>>> > > >> > >> --
>>> > > >> > >> Stuart
>>> > > >
>>> > > >> Quite excellent, one of Stuart L's best... in my opinion...
>>> > >
>>> > > > Good find, Zod.
>>> > > Bumped for G.D.
>>> > REPORTED AS SPAM
>>> Again, how can an important poetry post be spam?

>> It isn't...

> Bingo.

> 🙂

Yep...