Yes, I know you love me, Desmond.  It's the only sentence in your message
that I read.

Judy

On 7 March 2010 16:26, Desmond Swords <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I know what you mean about poetic fame being the weakest form of celebrity
> Jeff. I have been watching What Katie Did Next on ITV2, which follows the
> author, ex-glamor model Jordan, mum of three and a genuine Celebrity,
> around
> the place as the UK paparazi follow her every move. The disconnect between
> how she comes across on TV and what the papers say about her, illustrates
> how deldued we all are when making crass assumptions about others.
>
> Here's a woman who has made millions out of nothing more than people being
> interested in the way she looks and what she has to say, and she doesn't
> even write poetry, yet all these faux intellectual female commentators make
> a living opining in the rags why she is this that or the other, when the
> reality is she is just a mum who clearly loves her kids and the one with
> real intellectual savvy because she sees the storm around her for exactly
> what it is. Lots of other people talking shit about her and getting
> outraged
> because she does not fit the template of how people should behave in their
> world views.
>
> Poetry, when you look at current theoretical physics which makes our
> technological reality, is a poor see through relation and it would be
> interesting to actually tot up how many poets' books actually stand on
> their
> own two feet without subsidy. Katie Price sells millions of books with only
> fluff between the covers, and yet the artie intellectual crowd who'd claim
> her cultural value when set against their own writings, don't make a bean.
>
> I actualy think we take ourselves far too seriously in the UK. The whole
> poetry world is rigged, the majority of people considered to be at the top,
> are nearly all subsidised on one form or another and so when people talk
> about poetry and claim this poem or that one as more worthy a specimen than
> another, and then the award crews and prize givers all ooh and ah over such
> a thing or not, it's all just exactly what you say, subsidized cliques who
> are irrelevant in the wider culture. Once we accept we have no value and
> don't take ourselves so seriously, maybe we'd become a bit more important.
> I
> dunno.
>
> ~
>
> I love you Judy, you know that don't you?
>



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