Poetry

[Benny Bunter]

 

[Benny Bunter]

Absolute fire! And that's the very first one in the new yellow book

 

[version]

That one feels like it slides from the deliberate to the random.

 

[0bleak]

skinny puppy lyrics

 

[Benny Bunter]

Intense

 

[Benny Bunter]

Filmic

 

[Benny Bunter]

Cartoon physics

 

[william_kent]

bet read in a Mark E Smith voice

 

[0bleak]

BET?
Black Entertainment Television?
that would NOT go over well

 

[Benny Bunter]

Eyes burning like owlets reaching filmic
attention

 

[william_kent]

"huh"

 

[0bleak]

you gotta be more specific in this thread

 

[Benny Bunter]

I'm gonna post one of these a week for the next 7 years, we can analyse them together

 

[okzharp]

edmund was really angry he sent the new prynne to me and you but left edmund out lmao

i think he's deleted his username tho? it didn't come up

 

[okzharp]

@okzharp are you into Jorge Guillén by any chance? (you know Spanish, right?) I've been reading Cántico the last few months and I've decided it's probably the best book ever written, certainly my favourite in Spanish anyway. Genuinely life-affirming and joyous without ever being corny, and super concentrated, never a word out of place.

I think he took Valéry's ideas about pure poetry to the next level and actually achieved what he set out to do, unlike Valéry who got stuck and could never really finish anything cos of his excessive perfectionism (cemetery by the sea aside, which Guillén actually translated)

yeah I liked the bits of Guillén I read before. and yeah I do know Spanish, can help with stuff.. when i was growing up my uncle lived off-grid inland from Marbella in this mad 'rainbow village'... near a town called Istan... my dad sent me out there over the summer holidays in my late teens cos I was in a bit of trouble and my uncle got me a job in a car wash and cleaning rich people's swimming pools in Marbella town, and helping out on his building site, and on weekends we'd earn extra cash collecting carobs up in the mountains to sell to farmers... so I learned andaluz that way and got into reading cos there was a guy there who had loads of books in his caravan he would lend me and there was fuck all else to do anyway.

 

[okzharp]

no. he made music with edmund but he refused to realease it cos he said it was terrible. edmund is really angry about it. hes totally english but i think he went to oxbridge. hes quite priveleged.

I lied in my Oxford interview - said i'd read A Handful Of Dust, which I hadn't - and they sussed me out... I went UCL, that's where i met Edmund. He used to wander about looking ridiculously cool with a copy of La Nausée in his back pocket... and yeah we made an album together, it's good, there's a real heartbreaker on there called 'Save The Environment'. The reason we didn't release it is cos Ed was going to try and write some words to speak over it... but then it was quite a turbulent time, I think... there was even an idea we talked about, 'Trainers On A Strange'.
=

 

[woops]

I went UCL, that's where i met Edmund. He used to wander about looking ridiculously cool with a copy of La Nausée in his back pocket...

this is a shocking misrepresentation.

i had read sartre in schooldays, was into more interesting stuff by the time i got to London

 

[0bleak]

bet read in a Mark E Smith voice

BET?
Black Entertainment Television?
that would NOT go over well

just realized that a lot of people probably aren't familiar with that cable channel if they aren't from the states

 

[kid charlemagne]

@luka i was walking around washington sq today and there were some spontaneous poets. i asked for a poem about bob dylan... would you like to read it?

 

[kid charlemagne]

i wen to the guy and siad bob dmylan. he sai what bob dylan means to me, i said i just hes my fav artist, he said there are pics of him in this park i said WHERE!?!?!??!? but he meant that there were pictures that were taken of him in this park. my dumbass thought there were pictures of him hung up around the park or something. i got the poem.