... but Robin it read so well I read every morsel of it ...
Andrew
On 7 March 2010 20:37, Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> Desmond, you do tend to go on. And on. And on.
>
> Have you thought of consulting an editor about your volubility problem?
>
> Robin
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Desmond Swords" <
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> Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2010 1:15 AM
> Subject: Re: Poems on Todd Swift's blog
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>
>
> That's it. You've seen the error of your ways and have begun to play the
> game as it should be. Eyewear is a very prestigious mainstream
> avant-freindly blog. You know that don't you? And that Swift is one of the
> most able theoreticians and commentators on, not only British poetic
> culture, but the global one. Your playing with the big kids now, who take
> seriously their games and status in the playground. Do right by us, learn
> how to ...you know what I am taking about, and we'll do right by you.
>
> It's about time you grasped the pointlessness of nailing yourself to a
> flimsy Poundian cross and dropped the act to come on board of the MS
> express. You say nice things about the right kind of people, P.L.U's,
> people
> like us, and just watch what a nod and wink can bring in the way of kudos,
> respect and all the sorts of top-table opportunities you don't find in the
> staff rooms of under-seige English depts performing at the arse-end of UK
> poetry.
>
> I've dropped the act myself, started being more compliant with the tenor in
> one's spam. From now on I'm taking po-biz seriously and strategically
> starting to blurb whoever i think it is of poetic benefit to do so, for me
> personally on a comedic level, as a pretty unhappy person not getting on in
> UK Poetry because i am discriminated against due to my popularity in the
> states of lexical prejudice in things like 'colour' and color, pavement and
> sidewalk, the john or the jacks, labour or labor, and culturally slipping
> into a disadvantage of being the absent other who has been very much rent
> apart by the collapse of capitalism, dream and fiction ....I dunno.
>
> What i do know is i'm stopping being stupid as a cultural agitator and
> starting getting crafty, being nice, making sure to say the right things to
> the right people, embracing the use of emoticoms as tools for practical
> advancement of my career, familiarizing oneself with the html and internet
> shorthand that will allow people to feel comfortable about having me on
> board their freinds lists and as an ally there to back them up with an
> affirmative one-liner agreeing with 'em 'what Jeff said' and, by deploying
> the correct smilies in innovative and interesting ways, work a way up the
> ladder of online success. Who knows, one day I might even appear in the
> Manchester Review. Hit the big time if my strategy of sucking up to
> McAuliffe and that mob, pays off and the toadying gets me the official
> sanction from a rag connected to she I have decided to put at the top of my
> to-say-nice-things-about-list, Dame Carol and Sir Andrew.
>
> Who knows, one day I might even get some minor recognition of my services
> to
> UK poetry, if I play the game right and become a dependable blurbist
> promoting the right kind of poetry for the right kind of audience, serving
> others instead of serving one's selfishness, embracing the kind of poetry
> that makes the UK great, the straight-up lyric eyes who rhyme and don't
> mess
> about with anything pointlessly experimental or try anything too foreign.
> English is what I speak, England's where I'm from and I'm quitting the
> Irish
> scene, because it's just a waste of space Jeff.
>
> It bores me. It's too insular, the poets are not that exciting and there's
> no money in it, so from now on, I want to be known as English and ask
> forgiveness from the the people I foolishly took against when starting out,
> conned by the Irish into saying fairly tasteless things about the poets I
> was jealous of in England who, knowing I could not compare with them
> because
> they were so much more classy than me, I decided, foolishly and impelled
> only by shallow self-interest, to compete with them and learnt the hard
> way,
> they're just too good for me. So, I am asking Todd as a very influential
> representitive of English poetry, please can I come back home?
>
> I also wish to apologise to everyone I have offended and can only ask you
> please, please give me another chance. There's no excuse for going against
> the grain because I was jealous of you all, and I promise if you do extend
> another go my way, I will compose only excellent and supportive comments
> about you personally and your work.
>
> Sorry, I was a div, please, please do not let this affect the outcome of my
> facebook request.
>
> (:->
>
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Andrew
http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
http://frankshome.org/AndrewBurke.html
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