Really?
I don't know.
I don't think about it in that sort of framework, certainly not beforehand
or during the writing.
I suppose one could draw that from the poem; but, now I think about it, all
those entities - the victims, audience etc - are there in the notional
living / viewing room so that one can speak of them metaphorically in terms
of what they are receiving. They act out the representation of themselves
and the representation game plays them. And I'm trying to get under that.
L
On 17 October 2013 11:50, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> L, I was hearing a critique of what passes for news on tv; could be wrong.
>
> B
>
> > On 17 Oct 2013, at 9:11 pm, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> > Well it's poetry I'm trying to write, not motivational messages. Best L
> >
> >
> >> On 16 October 2013 22:47, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Cheery little number, L.
> >>
> >> B
> >>
> >>>> On 16 Oct 2013, at 10:33 pm, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> The hissed rant of victims,
> >>>
> >>> perpetrating audience conflict,
> >>>
> >>> all reconstituted;
> >>>
> >>> high street take out, edited
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> by and for news agencies;
> >>>
> >>> torn stuck apart together;
> >>>
> >>> cosmetically-enhanced patched;
> >>>
> >>> dissected; written; writhing
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> the dead heap, pieces and bits
> >>>
> >>> mixing, voices merging,
> >>>
> >>> dead among living.
> >>>
> >>> Phrases constitute.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> The books guide through traps, hurts
> >>>
> >>> that all must negotiate
> >>>
> >>> in violent deception
> >>>
> >>> from birth beyond breath.
> >
>
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