This is interesting for that passive voice that's really aggressive,
Lawrence.
Doug
On 16-Jun-10, at 6:37 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
> Words are smashed down until they’re small enough
> to be lifted in one hand and then thrown
> high up in a beautiful tight curve to fall hard
> on the heads of or in between a crowd
> we do not like. Not everyone approves.
> I’d say, says an observer, each one there
> is to some extent an utter wanker.
>
> Thoughts are filed and secreted till they’re sharp;
> the darkness helps them cut up flesh easily.
> However that works. Bombs full of bullshit
> are hurled at us by the police, in support
> of contracts of employment from some git
> we’ve never spoken to who fucks male goats.
>
>
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>
>
> Lawrence Upton
> AHRC Creative Research Fellow
> Dept of Music
> Goldsmiths, University of London
>
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