The Cantos

[luka]

Not interested. Why don't you interrogate that incredible,e bit of mr tea prose I just flagged up for you

 

[sus]

personal complaint poetry

Yeah but the way I read it it's thick with envy and resentment underneath affection, she's getting all the layers on the page, it's attempting to capture an ambivalent emotional state and accomplishes that effectively I think

 

[woops]

Yeah but the way I read it it's thick with envy and resentment underneath affection, she's getting all the layers on the page, it's attempting to capture an ambivalent emotional state and accomplishes that effectively I think

it'd be better to find a way to convey this effect without coming across as having a pop at an ex that's what i think

 

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One of the worst things about it is that it’s trying to be “hip Catullus in the contemporary world” which is bad enough, but then name checks Catullus while doing it!

Unless that’s the point and it’s parody, but then that’s David Lodge academia metatextuality that needs to be nuked

 

[luka]

its obviously not writing and Gus knows better but he's doing his routine. It's beneath him and he doesn't need to do it but he likes doing it so whatever

 

[sus]

it'd be better to find a way to convey this effect without coming across as having a pop at an ex that's what i think

I think they're still sleeping together it's a letter to a lover, that's my theory...

 

[woops]

i'm against any kind of recognisable confessional in poetry just on principle, don't care m8

 

[sus]

You guys have your own alien sensibility that's fine, a hierarchy of priority, a system of likes and dislikes, a structure of values, which no problem I'm with ya, but then you treat it as obvious self-evident non-constructed non-subjective non-idiosyncratic

 

[woops]

self-evident non-constructed non-subjective non-idiosyncratic

you mean we believe in it?

 

[luka]

you mean we believe in it?

That's what he means yes, he's psyopped himself into non existence he doesn't know the fuck is going on

 

[woops]

They just have strong opinions, don't they? How else are you supposed to talk about things? Keep adding caveats that of course, it's all subjective and constructed, at the end of every post?

i'm trying to say i'm glad you like that poem @suspended but i think there's much better stuff out there and it's better in the following ways.

 

[luka]

I'm saying you know you don t like that you know it's not a poem and why are you pretending what's that all about?

 

[catalog]

It sounds like it got to you, affected you, you had an experience, I'm glad

She's good I'm gonna get the Midwinter Day one in the mail soon

i went to a poetry reading thing online where they read the whole thing in 6 hours, i stayed for about 2 i think. was good tho.

 

[woops]

i'm trying to say i'm glad you like that poem @suspended but i think there's much better stuff out there and it's better in the following ways.

I'm saying you know you don t like that you know it's not a poem and why are you pretending what's that all about?

in these two posts you can see the fundamental character difference between me and @luka, the reason we complement each other so well on the south bank

 

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in these two posts you can see the fundamental character difference between me and @luka, the reason we complement each other so well on the south bank

I thought you wanted to kill each other?

 

[woops]

I thought you wanted to kill each other?

possibly in some kind of Harold Bloom anxiety of influence way but not really

 

[woops]

possibly in some kind of Harold Bloom anxiety of influence way but not really

@luka's response may differ

 

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It's like sharing an office day in day out while directly competing for trade, there's bound to be tensions.

 

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Like two brothers opening fruit and veg stalls right next to each other.

 

[luka]

what makes you think we compete