andrew burke wrote:
> It would leave a vacuum in my inbox should it leave, and yet I have a
> peripatatic time ahead of me in the next year and can't see myself always
> on tap to run it. Is there anyway of a team effort?
My full-time jobs are job-hunting and staying out of alimony jail.
Nothing else is of present importance. I am not Francois Villon, who
got off on being one step ahead of the gendarmerie.
What I'm about to say could get me kicked except nobody is named.
Even if all my private craziness went away today, I have observed an
ingrown coterie over the last year+ that has turned people not part of
the right-thinking Liberal Humanist/NeoCritical/Philosophe cast of mind
into non-persons. I am not going to use names, not because I'm
high-minded (I'm not--given a chance I'm a vindictive pig) but because I
don't feel like getting rapped for slander by the lurking Harassment
Screamers of the world who went running to Alison, or the gentleman who
sent me a back-channel inviting me to commit suicide like my
brother-in-law. I have more recently sent people mail back-channel that
they have not bothered to answer not because they are oh-so-busy but
because beneath the trappings of urbanity they are vulgar and assess I
can't do anything for them. You know who you are, but I suspect you
have no clue about how you are. I'm also not going to say the names of
people I know or know of who were iced out of here, kicked out of here,
or simply found it irrelevant. Some probably precede me. Five do not.
This place was a lot more fun when it was not an adjunct to the St.
Mark's Poetry Project.
That said, I hope someone with all kinds of high-minded ideals steps up
to sustain this thing. It can be turned back into a place of
intellectual excitement. Then again, lists die. They are organic.
Maybe it's time poetryetc found its place in the wayback machine.
ken
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Ken Wolman andreachenier.net rainermaria.typepad.com
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For he purrs in thankfulness when God tells him he's a good Cat.
For he is an instrument for the children to learn benevolence upon.
For every house is incomplete without him, and a blessing is lacking in the spirit.
--from Christopher Smart, "Jubilate Agno"
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