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That makes two of us, Roger, because I haven't the faintest about what you are going on about. You really did a bad one, you know, summoning up the ghost of EP, since then I keep discovering people who will, at the end of a conversation, suddenly mention the BNP as a desiderata. As a poet, you should know how dangerous words can be. 2008/7/15 Roger Day <[log in to unmask]>: > My dear boy, I have no idea what you're talking about. > > Roger > > On 7/15/08, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> Roger >> >> me ducks, I think you are being an unconscionable time a-flying on this. >> >> Rowley indeed >> >> 2008/7/14 Roger Day <[log in to unmask]>: >> > Dear Rowley also says he forgot to mention the colonies. He sends his >> > apologies, however, he became rather incensed after that, more >> > incensed than usual, something about leaving his bloody language >> > alone, as it's his and nobody elses, but I couldn't make it out. I'll >> > try again when he's dried out. He's usually not this bad so long after >> > his weekly allowance. >> > >> > Roger >> > >> > On 7/14/08, Roger Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >> Forgot to sign that post. It was from my dear, dear, dear friend, >> >> Rowley Birkin QC and debarred. >> >> >> >> On 7/14/08, Roger Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >> > bloody proles ... mumble mumble ... teach'em to read and what do they >> >> > write? rubbish ... mumble mumble ... mumble .... ungrateful I call it >> >> > .... might as well give a monkey a typewriter for all the good it will >> >> > do .... ..... .... ..... rubbish people write today ... only people >> >> > writing POETRY are my dear, dear, dear, Friends and that damn cat .... >> >> > and some bloke in the 15th century .... mumble ... mumble ... and I >> >> > was very, very, very drunk >> >> > >> >> > On 7/14/08, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >> > > Although, like most, I can often make off the cuff remarks about this >> >> > > or that, I do hesitate to +seriously+ make big pronouncements (don't >> >> > > laugh) but I would (nervously) propose this: >> >> > > >> >> > > that in the English language the last two decades have seen the >> >> > > greatest production of ersatz poetry in the known history of human >> >> > > civilization. I can imagine that more bad poetry has been written and >> >> > > published in English in these years than that of the combined total of >> >> > > all other cultures that have ever existed. >> >> > > >> >> > > It's a humbling thought. What it is to live in such great days. >> >> > > >> >> > > Tsunami. >> >> > > >> >> > > -- >> >> > > David Bircumshaw >> >> > > Website and A Chide's Alphabet http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/ >> >> > > The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html >> >> > > Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk >> >> > > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > -- >> >> > My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/ >> >> > "I began to warm and chill >> >> > to objects and their fields" >> >> > Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds >> >> > >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/ >> >> "I began to warm and chill >> >> to objects and their fields" >> >> Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds >> >> >> > >> > >> > -- >> > My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/ >> > "I began to warm and chill >> > to objects and their fields" >> > Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> David Bircumshaw >> Website and A Chide's Alphabet http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/ >> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html >> Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk >> > > > -- > My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/ > "I began to warm and chill > to objects and their fields" > Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds > -- David Bircumshaw Website and A Chide's Alphabet http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/ The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk