Apostrophes and plastic forks

Back from Edinburgh and both poems found. The first by courtesy of the magnificent molly_may, the second on the London Underground site poetry section. Stashed somewhere between ‘Customer complaints’ and ‘Engineering works on the Northern Line’.

Sea Love
Tide be runnin` the great world over:
`Twas only last June month I mind that we
Was thinkin` the toss about the call in the breast of the lover
So everlastin` as the sea.

Heer`s the same little fishes that sputter and swim,
Wi` the moon`s old glim on the grey, wet sand;
An` him no more to me nor me to him
Than the wind goin` over my hand.

Charlotte Mew (1869 – 1928)

I still like the last line but the rest of it not so much. It feels different shrunk down to fit a page and all those apostrophes get annoying so close together. Funny, the trivial things that can affect one’s perception.

When I first got the BtVS S5 DVD, I remember finding some of the episodes, Triangle was one, seeming really slowly paced in widescreen even though they’d moved along just fine in 4:3 on video. I think it was the Troll/bar scene that was a particular problem. In widescreen it was suddenly obvious how they were trying to use camerawork to make him look bigger than all the others and the bigger picture revealed more blank looking extras not reacting to the action. What’s strange is that these problems should feel like a pacing issue. The way food seems to taste worse eaten with plastic forks.