Etiquette.

[billy]

Etiquette (including two cock-ups)
if i said i have a bad chest it would not make the listening to any easier

[heslopian]

My single issue with these and your other readings is that they are a bit quiet, so I have to hold my laptop nearer my ears to hear them. But then my laptop is a piece of shit and I haven't heard them on the downstairs computer yet.

[billy]

i can hear them pretty well on my desk top.

i did rush them in order to put them up though and the mic i have is pretty shitty....and i had to borrow that

[heslopian]

Listening to them again my downstairs computer they sound fine, so don't worry about it.

[abu nuwas]

It is quiet for me, but audible. It is very good just to know the accent, and manner of the speaker. I thought the poem funny, and of course, capital letters on the pafe would not have the same effect as a good YELL!

[billy]

i am one of those confident people, i can and do speak with anyone and have no fear meeting or talking with people. yet when it comes to singing or reading aloud i crumble. thanks for taking the time to listen

[abu nuwas]

You are not alone. I, like many others, have a great portion of my mind on stand-by looking for some opportunity for a silly humorism, and yet, were someone to say 'Be funny!' I should be pretty well struck dumb. In fact, this does happen, rather more obliquely. Recently, I had told someone of my first adventures, after larning to swim, when I went to Lido in Hyde Park, stupidly thinking it would be a half-way house between swimming pool and sea. I had not embroiderd much, but had emphasised a lot about my thin little body getting exposed in a changing marquee, and my determination not to back down when a number of 'old boys' walked down into the water as if it was not there (actually, members of the Ice-breakers Club, who swim through the winter). Anyway, a friend shows up, and this woman, still with tears in her eyes, tell her how funny it all was, and how the new person must ask me to tell her the tale. I ducked out.

[billy]

brave men, all of us