If useless beauty could be the undoing of all security organisations.
Alas, we will be banned first.
Roger
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 10:02 PM, David Bircumshaw
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> I think, Roger, poetry is worth its worthlessness, as we all are.
>
> Racter
>
> 2008/6/27 Roger Day <[log in to unmask]>:
>> so poetry is worth something.
>>
>> Champillon
>>
>> On 6/21/08, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>> Actually, the first thing I want to 'share' with you all I found only by
>>> happenstance; the friends we were traveling with brought along a recent copy
>>> of Utne Reader, with a review of this new book, Poems from Guantanamo,
>>> edited by some of the lawyers representing the detainees. Who had a lot of
>>> trouble even getting permission to translate & publish the poems, having to
>>> vet every one of them with the Pentagon. As the article said, 'The US
>>> government contends that poetry presents a "special risk" to national
>>> security, since the form lends itself to coded communication.'
>>>
>>> Now we know, we poets.
>>>
>>> On the loose,
>>>
>>> Doug
>>>
>>> (you can imagine what these poems actually say...)
>>> Douglas Barbour
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>>>
>>> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
>>>
>>> Latest books:
>>> Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
>>> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
>>> Wednesdays'
>>> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
>>>
>>> A nation that expects to be ignorant and free, and in a state of
>>> civilization, expects what never was and never will be. --
>>> Thomas Jefferson
>>>
>>
>>
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>> to objects and their fields"
>> Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
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> David Bircumshaw
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"I began to warm and chill
to objects and their fields"
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