That is what they do, what are you talking about. They build a oeuvre of fragments. A repertoire of expressions. An associative gestalt.If you knew anything about rap you wouldn’t say that
tales from the sceneBut aren’t you the first (as am I) to say : audience above all … and this was an audience of 2 loser lovers who paid £50
I agree, nothing wrong with that spice girls poem, but the really good stuff is in the Poems book and these new snazzy jazz prose poem ones.I'm not saying it's bad! I'm just saying that I've read that poem before, at least many of its ideas and fragments. I'm not saying it's bad. I'm saying it shouldnt go in the Heronbone canon because it's essentially a self-pastiche of previous poems
your right that it is not very good and that it does not go in the canon. youre right that it is constructed of licks. it's not self-pastiche as much as it is hack workI'm not saying it's bad! I'm just saying that I've read that poem before, at least many of its ideas and fragments. I'm not saying it's bad. I'm saying it shouldnt go in the Heronbone canon because it's essentially a self-pastiche of previous poems