Yeah, Jill, well ....
I know that sometimes people on lists feel that I'm a bit over the top, I'm
sure I can be, but the background to it is the cultural or anti-cultural
actuality of the world I live in. Don't imagine that I'm unique in that
suffereing, but maybe I feel it more than most. What rubs the wound is/are
the pretensions of the society that surrounds me, oh yeah they are all for
poetry, as long as anybody doesn't write any ....
(that is to say, doesn't write any real poetry, crap pseudo-poetry is ok)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jill Jones" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 9:14 PM
Subject: Re: SNAPS snap
> Hey Dave,
>
> Wha ... !!!
>
> yrs, gobsmacked,
> Jill
>
>
> On Wednesday, February 1, 2006, at 02:00 AM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
>
> > Hey, Patrick, I was not trying to be a spoilsport, your snaps I find
> > good
> > fun, that's ok by me. What I was, and am, bothered about is the why
> > and why
> > again of poetry, it might have something to do with a matter that I
> > have
> > been attacked, verbally and phyiscally, and I mean that latter, I was
> > assaulted on Sunday night, for being:
> >
> > a poet.
> >
> > Not just a poet but apparently a good one: that's what seems to piss
> > some of
> > Da Heavies off, it seems my aestheic insults their comfortable sense of
> > mutual mediocrity. When I say physical assault I mean it: I was pushed
> > to
> > the floor, hit in the face, my drink was thrown across the bar, and
> > this was
> > in a so-called arts centre, for the crime of being me.
> >
> > This was by employees who are funded by the Arts Council.
> >
> > The Vixen wants to hit them over the head with her zimmer, me, I just
> > wanted
> > to have a quiet word, but, no, they've made it formal. They are going
> > to
> > regret that.
> >
> > Down with Cretinism.
> >
> > Best
> >
> > Dave
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