Nice distillation Dominic!
You forgot the:
Always call flora and fauna by its proper latin name, you romantic
Idiots.
I find the tendency towards epigram the most appealing long-term in Reading.
There's a review of Ukelele Music on amazon which reads:
1 Star Not for people interested in ukulele music but in poetry, July 8,
1998
Reviewer: A reader from Wash DC
Was looking for some listing of old songs with ukulele chords. Not this
book! Poetry along the archie and mehitabel line. A few interspersed
paragraphs, starting on page 20, about how to hold and strum and finger the
uke and that's it! 95% is avant garde post modern 'poetry' if that is what
you are looking for. --
>Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 19:10:31 +0000
>From: Dominic Fox <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Reading Reading
>
>Dear me,
>this Peter Reading is depressing
>innit?
>
>Skinheads are nasty, but you're no better.
>Or if you are, it won't do any good
>in the end. The *end*, d'you hear?
>
>What's that? "Your point, exactly?"
>There isn't any bleeding point,
>you poof. (There's a hundred or so
>pages of this _Collected Poems_ to go).
>Your effete notions won't preserve
>your mortal body from the grave,
>(though these bovver-boys, half-
>witted hooligans and assorted
>rustics-gone-mental may get you there sooner).
>Yes. You and your dear sweet grannie. And her budgie.
>
>Cancer's pretty fucking awful, too.
>Did I mention that? Just checking.
>
>Dominic
>
>--
>// Alas, this comparison function can't be total:
>// bottom is beyond comparison. - Oleg Kiselyov
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