Hi grasshopper,
I like this! I really do! Oh, if every wall were so honest! And the words
this wall knows! And it knows how to put them together into phrases that
work their eloquence well... Giving the voice to a wall is a good way of
writing something that's well OTT! Oh the permission we can give ourselves
to be extravagent as writers - if we dare!! (And you've dared and won IMO!)
I remember a canny few years ago a friend and I musing over a few pints
about just what a screen in a cinema would say after the crowd had left for
the night...
Anger poems are great ain't they just!!!
Bob
>From: grasshopper <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: New sub: The Wall behing the Paintings (Language Warning)
>Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 20:46:20 -0000
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>The Wall behind the Paintings
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>I am tired of people talking about heart and art,
>yabbing of their insights and sensibilities,
>that they are more More than the common flock,
>the herd of greylings in the grind, grounded
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>in the ordinary. Catch these beauties, who have
>Soul. It lingers in the interstices of long
>sentences, broken, not with sighs, but with
>the shadow of soughs. A sigh would not be subtle
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>enough. A certain fat silence is good.
>They have significances dripping like gems
>from their gestures, like fat baroque pearls
>that iridesce resentfully, as if they are too
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>exquisite to conform to a mere sphere.
>I am sick of special people, with their paints
>and blades, their pharmacopeia of words
>to salve and solve the world. I no longer
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>have faith in their knowledge or visions.
>They shit and piss like the rest of you,
>and die with the same What the fuck
>is this? in their oh-so-precious eyes.
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> grasshopper
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