I know. You meant Wow Wow Wubbzy, right?
--Uche
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Patrick McManus <
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> Kasper----I googled 'wow' it says 'world of warcraft' which is not what I
> meant!!P dismeanted
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of kasper salonen
> Sent: 14 May 2010 11:51
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: writing poetry
>
> wow
>
> On 13 May 2010 19:26, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > WOW!
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> > Behalf Of Desmond Swords
> > Sent: 10 May 2010 11:03
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: writing poetry
> >
> > Paddy Mm is 'puzzled;' asks if anyone's got round to writing any poems in
> > the last while.
> >
> >
> > 'It's a problem, all right, Patrick....' Doug luvvie responds, before
> > dropping out of a non- Scene.
> >
> > I've sent a few. Nine, actually, over the last month or so'; Freddie
> > Pollack states, eleven word conversation.
> >
> > Doug luvvie returns, with a five more word 'confession' beginning with a
> > reiteration of the facts: 'Indeed, you have' before moving to the meat of
> > the tweet-thesis; 'which is more than I have managed to write'.
> >
> > It's all smoke and mirrors, sleight of hand, slip of tongue, dressing up,
> > showbiz so-biz biddes and po-biz
> >
> > Alison arrives, happy and full: 'Lots of writing of different kinds, but
> no
> > poetry lately', before being informed this state of reality 'may
> change.'
> >
> > no date is given
> >
> > 0: Unreconstructed Neanderthal Stalinist Robot Robbie ham Elton, makes a
> > comedic splash
> >
> > 1: arrives with an arrangement in Letters; shuffled about toponyms, not a
> > real poem, bcuz it's clear i nicked it, love innit yeah
> >
> > 2: Al has 'an ambiguous relationship to Aristotle. Although' she 'can
> quite
> > see the point of working out how some things are different from other
> > things.
> >
> > 3: bids add you
> >
> > x
> >
> > 5: Alsion you know; when I got barred from pritbo by Nardy; for 'using
> real
> > names' in my copy ex-writing tutelary spirit Bob Bernstein; one's
> immediate
> > response was to compose a twenty page explanation of why I was cleverer
> and
> > knew more than what I called, him and his all male gang-ethos - who'd got
> it
> > all wrong via a vis the three oldest cons going with Socrates Aristotle
> and
> > Plato; because the thing the britpo chaps didn't get, one informed em;
> is,
> > in that intensely homosocial culture, 2500 years back; the (unchanged)
> > pedarastic roles on offer at the Academy and Grove in Letters, was
> founded
> > on a tradition of suck-up 'n say-nice, both erastes and eremenos; or drop
> > dead on a shield.
> >
> > This is all very well' but too much bad drag for this sailor; and so what
> > if Randy and one's bardic Irish tradition aint so gay as 3000 miles
> distant;
> > we can afford to lose Aristotle, bcuz we've Amergin, Hesiod of the Howth
> > Casuals Alison yeah.
> >
> > At that point a few years ago; one was in the middle of clarifying all
> > this, along with the full lineage of the Greek gods; grasping for the
> first
> > time; after seven years study and more - that what one thought one knew,
> was
> > nothing - bcuz Amergin has greater torque in truth and poetic gravity -
> when
> > one understands the System of Myth one's basing their career as a boring
> > person whose d?n is to bore for Britain and the island of ghosts and
> > geldfine here me dears - on: Should one's choon declare it. Plus. if one
> > chooses, be an AUSer, CAmerican American, USAmerican, UKer, Kiwi Paddy
> > Plastic p'raps poetry urchin of seventy five, and even, should one wish -
> a
> > Woman whose dim-bells M'fum-fum, or owt else one feels home in Letters -
> > has representing moi, as an independant, luvvie; Al.
> >
> > Take no notice, I will fish it up and bore you to close down and stop
> > writing; hopefully turn into a full time silly apron attic-mad
> cake-baker
> > formerly knownas the talented Alison Croggan; who went insane bcuz ye
> worth
> > it, lurve.
> >
> >
> > 6: Next, you were playfully mocked by eremenos Elton Rob, ham luvvie
> asking
> > you be ashamed bcuz; that's how homosocial works - Erastes, getting the
> > young lads to say how great their senior tutelary bummie chums are.
> >
> > A is not B doesn't mean C does not exist.
> >
> > Shame on you, and you, and you a nice Australian anti-monarchist.
> >
> >
> > 7: How dare you colonial AUSer have so much talent; thank gawd yer a
> woaman
> > in the gang of guys - Elton finkz
> >
> >
> > 8: You return Ni Croggon, informing Robbie his one line atempt at
> > bamboozling ye was unsuccesful
> >
> >
> > 9: Still not sure of what I should be ashamed, but quite happy to do a
> few
> > maxima culpas, on the basis that ignorance is not the same as innocence.
> >
> > ~
> >
> > 1: a fwendly kwiz xA
> >
> > 2: Uche Ogbuji my fave new sta bard; who's article I read and thought -
> > yes! this is a real poet. He comes in and, sheer class - one to watch,
> like
> > Judy Prince bcuz they speak as themselves, uniquely, and I am lootuing
> their
> > hoard and shamelessly imitating bcuz one's bin a boot tae new
> >
> > 3: General argie bargie in short exchanges, playing head-games, until
> >
> > You'd have to ask the self-styled definers. My perspective is just that
> > their own self-styled definitions are their own self-styled
> petard-hoicks.
> >
> > $: this is the top gear, you can see why I think our Nigerian American
> > fwend is getting me excited with his clear talent.
> >
> > A deabte about the nature of time occurs; i haven't read the rest my
> comps
> > slowing out. I am called elsewhere to Speak with the 'Seagulls and
> sparrows,
> > eagles and owls' Gary Fitzgerald talks of.
> >
> >
> > Take no notice. Carry on with your voluntary duties everyone.
> >
> > 2: Paddy. McManus 'son of hand' (in hiberno-latin at least); perfect nom
> de
> > lurve in Letters yeah; ye mad sta bard.
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