<FONT face="Default Sans Serif, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2><DIV><FONT face="Lucida Console">jess wrote:</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT face="Lucida Console"></FONT> </DIV><DIV><FONT face="Lucida Console">walking by. <BR>New mothers with infants in various states of distress. <BR>elderly couples walking slowly, negotiating the litter with sticks and handbags<BR>men is dark glasses who felt young and sunloved<BR>women with hair pulled back leting the breeze touch their necks<BR>children with capped cups sipping orange juice under parasols<BR>the smell of bacon pulling people into the cafe rather than the shelf full of wholewheat<BR>the photographer who came unasked to take my picture because (she said) people <BR>needed to know<BR>my reflection in the phone shop, slightly tilted as the tyre splayed out on the pavement<BR>2 people said they liked my pink hair - I could have recorded that<BR>put it in a piece<BR>so you could see<BR>high and low<BR>up and down<BR>on and off<BR>mixed together.</FONT><BR> </DIV><DIV>it seems a break from the technology has inspired good poetry.</DIV><DIV>perhaps a lesson for all of us</DIV><DIV>komninos<BR><BR></DIV><DIV>komninos zervos<br>lecturer, convenor of CyberStudies major<br>School of Arts <br>Griffith University<br>Room 3.25 Multimedia Building G23<br>Gold Coast Campus <br>Parkwood<br>PMB 50 Gold Coast Mail Centre <br>Queensland 9726<br>Australia<br>Phone 07 5552 8872 Fax 07 5552 8141<br>http://www.gu.edu.au/ppages/k_zervos<br>http://users.bigpond.net.au/mangolegs<br>http://spokenword.blog-city.com<BR></DIV></FONT>
