the Munich street artist is Adolf Hitler
he led the Beerhall Putsch and fell at Odeonsplatz.
obviously, he was a terrible painter.
>From: Helen Clare <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: submission
>Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 22:31:06 -0000
>
>I'm afraid I don't know the painting or painter here. Do I need to know to
>really get this poem? And if so does that devalue the poem as a piece of
>art
>in its own right.
>The old chestnut really - but possibly worth chewing over once more!
>H
>
>PS: prefer masturbate to copulate. Much kinkier and more startling.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: paul murphy <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 8:23 AM
>Subject: Re: submission
>
>
> > terrible is a translation of the German schrecklich in this context
> > maybe it doesn't have quite the same effect
> > look deeper into the painting of the tractor
> > do you see a space station listing off Saturn
> > daisychains of cosmic rotating Gyres
> > all the technics of civilisation
> > creation
> >
> >
> > >From: Helen Clare <[log in to unmask]>
> > >Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
> > >To: [log in to unmask]
> > >Subject: Re: submission
> > >Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 07:41:57 -0000
> > >
> > >Terrible?
> > >Actually you know I kind of feel that terrible is against all the rules
>-
> > >but somehow it works for me.
> > >I love this poem. I'm not sure I entirely know what it is about - I
>think
> > >there's an artist referred to I can't quite identify. It seems to be to
>be
> > >all about the terrifying flowers - the objects of beauty and darkness -
>be
> > >they those of the artist or those of the world. It has a fascination
>and
>a
> > >power I can't quite pin down.
> > >Helen
> > >
> > >
> > >----- Original Message -----
> > >From: Sally Evans <[log in to unmask]>
> > >To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > >Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 4:15 AM
> > >Subject: Re: submission
> > >
> > >
> > > > Hello Paul -
> > > > If I told you I liked this poem but it was spoilt for me by one word
>-
> > >would
> > > > you know which word it was?
> > > > best wishes
> > > > SallyE
> > > >
> > > > on 29/10/03 10:43 pm, paul murphy at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Paul Murphy
> > > > >
> > > > > Sketch of a Tractor in Bavarian Landscape
> > > > >>
> > > > >> I am a Munich street artist
> > > > >> spawned by our great father
> > > > >> the father of all street artists.
> > > > >> I paint from postcards
> > > > >> scenes of the Dom,
> > > > >> little sketches of the dancer
> > > > >> Lola Montez and portraits
> > > > >> of Cosima and Richard Wagner.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> I am a Munich street artist
> > > > >> I look at his terrible flowers everyday.
> > > > >> at Odeonsplatz I throw
> > > > >> my coat on the ground
> > > > >> at the space he fell
> > > > >> I can't see the spaces history
> > > > >> falls into, but I can see
> > > > >> his face, the terrible flowers
> > > > >>
> > > > >> that rise up out of the cracks
> > > > >> in the pavement, that fell
> > > > >> where he fell, terrible
> > > > >> flowers that yawn and devour
> > > > >> men. in the Haus der Kunst
> > > > >> a waving woman
> > > > >> on the landscape
> > > > >> a tractor is thrumming
> > > > >>
> > > > >> I am painting the tractor
> > > > >> the terrible flowers
> > > > >> the waving woman
> > > > >> the dancer Lola Montez
> > > > >> Richard and Cosima.
> > > > >> Nietzsche is dying
> > > > >> Achilles is born.
> > > > >> Mars and Venus masturbate
> > > > >>
> > > > >> the flower stems
> > > > >> the terrible tractor
> > > > >> the waving flowers
> > > > >> the thrumming woman
> > > > >> the thrumming waving woman
> > > > >> the stems of the tractor
> > > > >> tyre metal steel plastic leaf oil
> > > > >> observe the terrible thrumming woman
> > > > >>
> > > > >> so that the tractor is born.
> > > > >>
> > > > >
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