From: "stephen mooney" <[log in to unmask]>
ADDRESS to the fashion tutors of CENTRAL ST. MARTINS :
SHALL I BE JUDGED
When one would adopt the garb
of the enemy, camouflage conscience
with friendship and subject oneself
to the rape of fashion -
as if the indignity of complicity
in fashionpeddlingthought were not crime enough
"more" "natural"
"not" "so" "very posey"
Condemned;onewordtiger
that through gritted self-respect,
grinding this friend did wantonly administer
to the requests of the third party and so submit
to the act of photographic reproduction;
not so "very natural";
that the accused did refuse to deposit his highbrow
at the door to this most illustrious temple of thought,
Central St. Martin's Academy of Law and Order;
failing indeed to fumble with fumble-with mind
and 'live' the part, the part, the part.
more "posey";
Away with Aristotle, Homer, Cato,
the combined wisdom of ancientry -
and hello boys.
Make irrelevant Sartre, soo last century
dispose of my Joyce, W. Shakespeare, Tom Stoppard, right?
and god-killer Nietzche, who?
gleaming Chaucer, Wordsworth, Wilde
to become the lightest of peasant chic:
meaningless and irrelevant content.
the passivity of the hang
the force of the cut
"Style
I want them back.
unaware
Being unaware that such a worthy arbitrator
was therein entitled to denigrate his legitimacy,
the accused does fail to beg forgiveness that he
does not succumb to your vacant and frivolous world:
the fashion that drags at my heel.
Rather, I would prise open your little mind
and ram myself in, and chew your visual
insignificance and your mimicry than
become, to adopt the Yeatsean,
a flattered coat upon a stick.
How;onewordtiger
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