Very very sorry for all the trouble my phrase "hey goatfucking war
supporters" caused. I did not intend for the insult to be taken personally
by anyone on the list, nor did I think anyone would fold himself into a
tourettic *FREAK OUT* because of it. I was mostly shouting off the stage,
for which, again, I'm sorry. It was ungentlemanly and mildly badmannered of
me. Found it interesting that the it-person said I wrote "You goatfucking
war supporters!," which I did not write.
So again, for the fourth time in two days, I'm very sorry for having
written the four word line about goats. I am not in the least sorry that
Marcus Bales is gone. The kind of abuse he levelled at Mairead, Geoffrey,
me and others he's levelled at a number of people on the conservative list
new-poetry (and in my backchannel inbox). I long ago put him on filter for
reasons many of you can probably now understand. None of which excuses my
goat phrase, for which again I'm sorry.
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"To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things
they misname empire; and where they make
a wilderness, they call it peace." -- Tacitus
Gabriel Gudding
Department of English
Illinois State University
Normal, IL 61790
office 309.438.5284
http://www.pitt.edu/~press/2002/gudding.html
http://gabrielgudding.blogspot.com/
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