>>I take it you 'teach' poetry in some educational sausage factory where you
are bored and after years of people passing through your pedagogical
experiment with yourself, performing as someone who aint just a wage-slave
but practioner of love via the act of poetry?
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On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Desmond Swords
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> Barbour.
>
> You are brilliant.
>
> Your pose of speaking on behalf of 'adventurous British poets' is
> admirable, but being sniffy and condescending about it, as a character in
> the mind alone Dougie luvvie - one capable of performing in reality as a
> sincere warm hearted and generous bore, in between bouts of middle aged
> enuui, longuer and beh!- one could, for example, point out the fact that
> Douglas Barbour is all but unknown beyond the border of this dump, by both
> adventurous and unadventurous alike, my darling: Non?
>
> Beyond the jovial pose of this piece, there;s a serious point.
>
> I take it you 'teach' poetry in some educational sausage factory where you
> are bored and after years of people passing through your pedagogical
> experiment with yourself, performing as someone who aint just a wage-slave
> but practioner of love via the act of poetry?
>
> And after checking your name for the first time ever, yes, I see you're at
> Alberta doing brilliant work on behalf of yourself.
>
> You see, what it is, if we just stay in our boxes and huddles and never
> try, sincerely, to extend ourselves, what happens is we end up like Noam and
> Hitch, polarized luvvies sat on our arse thinking we are right and the
> 'other' wrong. But at least Noam and Hitch actually spoke to have a fall
> out.
>
> This gang and that gang aint even trying to speak as individuals, but seem
> to exist in little knots and cliques, identity defined not by us alone, but
> by the associative links and relationships, not of what we speak, but with
> whom.
>
> And it's all because of a few bores, like Laurie Smith, who gets his own
> dough, like you do yours and thinks, oh, that's me poetically important
> then, hey you unadventurous poets not like me being daring with all my
> skills at filling in forms and being achingly grave, silent and really
> Dougie luv, life's too short for all this bollocks, so please, professor of
> poetry, learn how it's done and stop conning yourself you are better than
> me.
>
> Love you
>
> Seriously though Doug, thank you very much for thinking my time precious.
> This signifies you think I am an important colleague, unless you're being
> ironic, in which case.
>
> You're brilliant..
>
> Thanks very much.
>
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