luka
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Luka's Wonderful Poetry Thread
really enjoyed this.
with these timewarps into a hokey, old world, the last resort a kind of black iron prison knock off america, novelty diners, gingham waitresses, the fleapit cinema, kids shouting hey mister, you get this sense of an ancient world just on the cusp of losing the plot.
its like that kind of sixties before the sixties was invented that i find really fascinating cos on the one hand its the time my grandparents lived through obliviously, but also this period with these bizzare, hallucinatory accounts of contemporary living in tv society before “psychedlia” is formalised in the way it became.
you have it in ann quins books, these deranged fragmentary characters rushing around the rationing era where the city environment warps and breathes and mirrors and anticipates their internal states.
i like those jumps between different levels like what version was saying, those sort of fatalistic “when did we intrude on our future” bits to pinkys pedicure parlour etc. feels like it confirms the absurd aspects of getting trapped in nostalgia for a past that couldnt prevent the present from happening.
a lot of the city scenes in yours make me picture the kind of landmark entertainment sites that have popped up in london over the past few years that feel like someone read a situationist manifesto and then decided to make something shit instead. that new bit around kings cross for instance, public not public play area near the digitally remodelled grain stores replete with yur “rollerskating chicks” and photogeninc kids in water spools.
like normally people say seaside towns and beach resorts fell out of favour in britain because of easy jet and package holidays in spain and stuff, but also cos those kind of entertainment complexes and leisure centres made more inroads into everyones lives, the butlinisation of the city. lmao what a twat but you know what i mean.
with these timewarps into a hokey, old world, the last resort a kind of black iron prison knock off america, novelty diners, gingham waitresses, the fleapit cinema, kids shouting hey mister, you get this sense of an ancient world just on the cusp of losing the plot.
its like that kind of sixties before the sixties was invented that i find really fascinating cos on the one hand its the time my grandparents lived through obliviously, but also this period with these bizzare, hallucinatory accounts of contemporary living in tv society before “psychedlia” is formalised in the way it became.
you have it in ann quins books, these deranged fragmentary characters rushing around the rationing era where the city environment warps and breathes and mirrors and anticipates their internal states.
i like those jumps between different levels like what version was saying, those sort of fatalistic “when did we intrude on our future” bits to pinkys pedicure parlour etc. feels like it confirms the absurd aspects of getting trapped in nostalgia for a past that couldnt prevent the present from happening.
a lot of the city scenes in yours make me picture the kind of landmark entertainment sites that have popped up in london over the past few years that feel like someone read a situationist manifesto and then decided to make something shit instead. that new bit around kings cross for instance, public not public play area near the digitally remodelled grain stores replete with yur “rollerskating chicks” and photogeninc kids in water spools.
like normally people say seaside towns and beach resorts fell out of favour in britain because of easy jet and package holidays in spain and stuff, but also cos those kind of entertainment complexes and leisure centres made more inroads into everyones lives, the butlinisation of the city. lmao what a twat but you know what i mean.
mvuent
Void Dweller
i agree with version and kumar, i like this a lot. even better than the other one i read.
reminds me of brave new world.
this is my favorite line though.
reminds me of brave new world.
since there were a few other memorable uses of the word, i misread this as "above the cowering sky" which would make me think of something really, really tall and imposing. not that has to do with anything...
this is my favorite line though.
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pattycakes_
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Shirking your duties from the other poetry thread then eh!
luka
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Terminal beach I nicked off Ballard I think
