tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137269432024-03-23T18:12:31.943+00:00E Y E W E A R, THE BLOG - FREEDOM MEANS BEING UNAFRAID TO WRITE WHAT YOU THINKPOETRY, POLITICS, PROVOCATION AND POPULAR CULTURE SINCE 2005 - 19 YEARS AND over 7 million visits - British Library-archivedEYEWEARhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01900801847916951522noreply@blogger.comBlogger3647125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13726943.post-60883589535783065632023-12-31T15:48:00.001+00:002023-12-31T15:51:27.581+00:00THE SWIFT REPORT 2023I am writing this post without much enthusiasm, but with a sense of duty.
This blog will be 20 years old soon, and though I rarely post here anymore, I owe it some attention.
Of course in 2023, "Swift" now means one thing only, Taylor Swift, the billionaire musician. Gone are the days when I was asked if I was related to Jonathan Swift. The pre-eminent cultural Swift is now alive and TIME PERSON OF THE YEAR.
There is no point in belabouring the obvious with delay: 2023 was a low-point in the low annals of human history - war, invasion, murder, in too many nations. Hate, division, the collapse of what truth is, exacerbated by advances in AI that may or may not prove apocalyptic, while global warming still seems to threaten the near-future safety of humanity. It's been deeply depressing.
The world lost some wonderful poets, actors, musicians, and writers this year, as it often does. Two people I knew and admired greatly, Ian Ferrier and Kevin Higgins, poets and organisers of events who impacted their communities immensely died, as did two of Canada's greatest musicians, Gordon Lightfoot and Robbie Robertson.
In happier news, my friend Nik Nanos received the Order of Canada. Well deserved.
Personally, the highlights of the year were spent with friends or family.
If 2023 means anything good, for me, it is that I managed to maintain my heart failure status to the extent of staying alive, and the company I am director of, barely managed to make it through to the fortieth anniversary year of 2024 for Black Spring Press.
I am proud of the over 33 books my team managed to edit and publsh this year.
I have a new poetry collection out soon in January, I hope.
2024 is a daunting year. Trump looms. War continues. I am fighting to keep the press running, a small business facing challenges in a changing industry. Family members and friends face serious health challenges.
My faith is shaken, but I don't want to give up.
I will keep on as long as I can. Too many "Is" here. Ego is the enemy.
Love thy neighbour. Try and be kind. May you find some measure of peace in the darkening storm.EYEWEARhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01900801847916951522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13726943.post-5602837114847964512023-08-06T17:43:00.054+01:002023-08-06T18:16:15.800+01:00Oppenheimer by Nolan<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWjr0GnEDt5BdE_UNJiIgJt8PTskseIuZ9cLniBukwn-dFso6yW4S743NLVLKe2oOxNUEjS6h2X_DyPFoAUogGhLKRh_udWuihw6Y-Xj2qG7gokMekcYXAN7cp8FNk-K03FIi7hkgFyjUfSAFIzUrMhSNvGjvzLJoX3ziLncQDFLwvq4kKEtjykg/s1600/df64e4eb79d054b4175582f45bf8518e.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="1948" data-original-width="1500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWjr0GnEDt5BdE_UNJiIgJt8PTskseIuZ9cLniBukwn-dFso6yW4S743NLVLKe2oOxNUEjS6h2X_DyPFoAUogGhLKRh_udWuihw6Y-Xj2qG7gokMekcYXAN7cp8FNk-K03FIi7hkgFyjUfSAFIzUrMhSNvGjvzLJoX3ziLncQDFLwvq4kKEtjykg/s1600/df64e4eb79d054b4175582f45bf8518e.jpg"/></a></div>
Nolan's film <i>Oppenheimer</i> when at its
best, is as good as cinema has ever been. I admit to writing this on the
anniversarary of the dropping of the first bomb on Japan, which I consider a war
crime and a human tragedy of the largest kind, as was the second bomb. I write
this post with great respect for those who died or suffered then, and I know
that the film itself seeks to expose, somehow, the sheer magnitude and moral
toxicity of this invention - one which, as the film shows, could have burnt
the whole world, not just Japan. Art can perhaps speak to the atrocities at
Nagasaki and Hiroshima, or avoid them. Nolan's film obliquely references the
horror - the inventor and the president both speak of guilt or innocence,
neither seems to inhabit the space to fully comprehend their crimes. So why make
a film about nuclear bombs, if the material is so powerful, so painful, so
irradiated with historic guilt and shame? I suppose because of ambition, a
desire to take on the largest themes and subjects, and do them justice. The
truth is, those interested in the story of Los Alamos, atomic bomb development,
nuclear spies, or the Teller H-Bomb, can find that in the BBC/PBS TV series from
1980, also titled <i>Oppenheimer</i>, or the many books, such as the one Nolan
bases his screenplay on, that cover the same irradiated ground. What Nolan has
done, in assembling the most stellar cast since <i>Towering Inferno</i>, or
perhaps, more aptly, Kramer's 1961 courtroom/war epic about overeaching evil,
<i>Judgment at Nuremberg</i>, is redefine what an epic biopic can be for an age
now expecting spectacle. He has taken the Marvel and DC universes, with their stars
and Quantum obsessions, and made them seriously adult. Certain of the scenes,
especially when Robert is a young poetry-reading scientist dishevelled in
Europe, or during the storm-swept build-up to the Trinity tests in New Mexico in
1945, or in the immediate aftermath during his sickening speech celebration,
thrum with a dynamic musical pulse,a stamping of feet, while the screen
threatens to break apart out of its atomic composure - the film itself trembles
with latent destruction. The audience is, yes, immersed (IMAX helps) in the
terrible beauty of the Atomic Age being born - the first moment humankind's
genius became capable of destroying our entire world - something most
film-makers' can only dream of.
The fearsome nature of this creative-destructive
hubris (Oppenheimer's mistress has an Eros and Thanatos issue herself we are
shown) is entirely aesthetiticized by the moviemakking process. The acting,
editing, direction, cinematography, location shooting, immaculate recreation of
older technology, score, are all impeccable, though the talky bits (despite
being witty and smart) can a few times drag. General Groves spent two billion, but
Nolan also assembles a crack team and spends a lot of money to establish the
analogy between the art of cinema and science of physics. Without descending
into Oscar gossip, which, like with <i>Schindler's List</i>, another historical
epic grappling with evil, seems besides the point, Murphy and Downey Jr, as well
as Blunt, are potential winners this year, but other actors shine, not least Matt
Damon, who has become the effortless everyman of American film much like Hanks.
In a few moments onscreen, the pure intensity of the experience is
remarkable, and raises the bar for other dramatic-historical films. This would
not make sense on TV - it needs to be observed, and experienced, like being the
famous cat in the experiment's box. You could see it on a small screen, but the
size and power of the energy assembled and released would be a lesser version.
The idea is to make a film as big as the subject - in this case the possible
invention of the end of the world, arguably the "biggest story ever told" if not
the greatest.
Movies about inventors and scientists have, in the past, done well
such as <i>Madame Curie</i> in 1943, 80 years ago (she won<i> her</i> Nobel for
her radioactive work). This film could establish a new form of cinema, one more
propulsive, and totalising. It is an exciting moment for Nolan, and for us,
despite the film's dire warnings, hints of human evil, and ultimate pathos and
horror. Can such material be responsibly transmuted in this way? Nolan seems to
provide a moral reply to that doubt, in the final minutes of the film - there is
something more important to speak about, after all...
EYEWEARhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01900801847916951522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13726943.post-17817754004582989412023-01-12T17:07:00.005+00:002023-08-06T17:20:09.242+01:00thinking of kevin<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">L</span><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;">ike a lot of people, who knew and loved him - and I am not referring here intrusively to his closest relations or loved ones, but instead, to the poets, editors and publishers who worked with him - I am having a hard time with the death of the great Irish poet, and person, <b>Kevin Higgins</b>.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;">Though we often disagreed on politics, and though we had drifted apart, he WAS the person who wrote the introduction to my Salmon Poetry selected poems, <i>Seaway</i>, and he WAS the person I </span><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a></span><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;">included in almost every anthology or event I organised for over a decade or more, starting with <i>Poets against the War</i>. He felt like a soul brother to me, and for many years we met relatively often, had dinner or drinks, and spoke about poetry. Our partners met with us, sometimes; and we met not only in London, but Paris, New York, Budapest, and of course, Galway.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;">Other than <b>Patrick Chapman</b>, he is the Irish poet I feel closest to, aesthetically, but also, in how we view the established order of poetic things (that charmed inner circle that often excludes the maverick). His death is shattering. I keep reading his poetry, and recalling his voice, his readings, his bitterly funny manner. Condolences to his closest friends, partner, family. What a titanic loss. No one cut through the cant, rhetoric and bs like Kevin. In many ways, he was as original and potent a voice as <b>Heaney</b>'s, but purposefully stripped bare of classical adornment. I've never known as undeceived a poet. Kevin spoke truth to power like a chainsaw speaks to wood.</span></span></p>EYEWEARhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01900801847916951522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13726943.post-71735484201061027722023-01-11T13:22:00.005+00:002023-08-06T17:17:30.881+01:00IRISH POETIC GENIUS KEVIN HIGGINS HAS DIED<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNjuyD2EyrXsmXN_PqCpFzdkvUUJADpnrfC-EESpOGSXyA0sW2uIcBcmOyEiwnwePfQF4P7kCk1U6JR7wyxcVgtsFDvx68lLOElP0bjCHqxaMr8HTJyjaWzmEqu28-5kha_NEDjEZcz38ZpmHcFvC8PFFh-M4mEGKjOnDIi-gHH8GXrHiJB7U/s640/kh.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNjuyD2EyrXsmXN_PqCpFzdkvUUJADpnrfC-EESpOGSXyA0sW2uIcBcmOyEiwnwePfQF4P7kCk1U6JR7wyxcVgtsFDvx68lLOElP0bjCHqxaMr8HTJyjaWzmEqu28-5kha_NEDjEZcz38ZpmHcFvC8PFFh-M4mEGKjOnDIi-gHH8GXrHiJB7U/w400-h300/kh.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><h1 style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Terrible sad news - the major Irish satirical poet of his generation, and a poet of comedic genius, and powerful authentic resonance, Kevin Higgins, has died yesterday in Ireland.</h1><h1 style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Higgins, the author of many poetry books, most published by Galway-based Irish press Salmon, was known and admired world-wide, but nonetheless deserved <span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="text-decoration-line: underline;">even more</span> recognition from the established great and the good - i.e. the prizes, medals, crowns, gongs and other titles thrown at many many lesser lights - except, he was so brilliantly biting, critical, and scathing of all that he spied as dishonest, unfair or wretched.</h1><h1 style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Sweet-natured and hilarious in person, on paper, he was terrifyingly sharp-witted, and sparing of no prisoners. In a just world, he would be seen as the greatest of recent Irish poets, and even so, is recognised in anthologies and critical studies everywhere as the most acute, savagely clever, and startling of Irish political poets.</h1><h1 style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">The measure of his unexpected reach - a 'Heineken poet' if you will - is that on his death the Irish President issued a press release. Kevin was more valued, loved, and necessary, than was often recognised by po-faced arbiters of taste, but loved and treasured he was and is. I am proud to have been one of the first to encourage his poetry by anthologising him in <i>Poets Against The War</i> and <i>Short Fuse</i> anthologies, on Nthposition, and in hosting him at events on several continents; since I met him in 2002, over 21 years ago, I have constantly expressed the opinion his style and voice were unique and urgently valuable. I always championed his genius, and still do. Kevin wrote an intro to my Salmon selected poetry book, and though we lost touch in the past few years, and often disagreed about politics, his early advocacy of my work remains deeply important to my own creative journey as well. He edited many of my poems in the period 2002-2006.</h1><h1 style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">He is secure in the Irish canon, and one day, there will be pilgrimages to the places he lived and taught writing, with his partner, the Irish and American poet <a data-mce-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Millar_DuMars" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Millar_DuMars">Susan Millar duMars</a>, who survives him.</h1><h1 style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Condolences to those who loved him.</h1>EYEWEARhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01900801847916951522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13726943.post-61946236014813273402022-12-23T17:20:00.006+00:002023-12-31T15:52:38.691+00:00THE SWIFT REPORT 2022<p><span style="font-size: large;">2022 WILL LIKELY BE REMEMBERED by historians for the Ukraine War, the ongoing climate emergency, the deaths of The Queen and Gorbachev, the three UK prime ministers, and the lingering pandemic and economic fall-out; maybe the Bitcoin collapse, as a 7th.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">For me, it was the year of recovery, after nearly dying in hospital last Christmas - taking 4 months off, getting a defibrillator implant device, and taking 11 pills a day for my chronic Heart Failure. I want to express how grateful I am to the doctors, and nurses, and those who helped me stay alive this year. Grateful to God.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I want to thank my friends, my family, my partner. And say how glad I was to spend time with my brother, his wife, and my godson Alex, this summer, in Spain.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I want to thank those writers, poets, colleagues, and patrons, who helped me keep BSPG functional in a challenging year for small businesses.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Please may you have love, peace and light this Christmas time, this season of holidays and the solstice.</span></p>EYEWEARhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01900801847916951522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13726943.post-16953013668977592052022-12-23T16:49:00.007+00:002023-08-06T17:17:43.633+01:00CHRISTMAS POEM 2022<p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="background: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The secret is not to
have a secret<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="background: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The magic is to be
magicless</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The trick is to go without the tricks</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The plan is to be avoided<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The path is to be downtrodden<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The lie is to be forgotten<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The carnival is to be inverted<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The lamb is to be converted<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The killer is to be caressed<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The dress is to be undressed<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The cure is to be lost<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The time is to be mis-told<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The crime is to be lawful<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The beauty is to be awful<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The secret is to speak widely<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The magic is to turn the tables<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The trick is to be born in the stables<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The plan is to go to shambles<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The path is via the brambles<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The lie is to stand in the open<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The carnival is to roll the king <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The dress is thorn this season<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The lamb is the feast for a reason<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The birth was clearly at night<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The death was notably during day to day<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">This means something about lighting<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Between the cracks, between the shrugs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Between the thighs, between the thugs,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Between the shimmering royal displays,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Comes a meagre passion play, starting<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">In the dull, disinterested, calamities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">DECEMBER 23, 2022<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><p></p>EYEWEARhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01900801847916951522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13726943.post-29759268049353228992022-12-01T14:00:00.002+00:002023-08-06T17:17:46.640+01:00NEW SIMPLE MINDS ALBUM REVIEW - DIRECTIONS OF THE HEART<span style="font-size: large;">This wouldn't be an Eyewear blog without a review of a <b>Simple Minds</b> album.</span><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">In rear-view, none of the recent, critically lauded comeback LPs have been truly as great as that run from the 1980s - but usually as pompous, majestic, grandiose, religious, and shimmering. My love for this band is in their sure-fire surges of greatness cranked up to 11, and utter refusal of irony - they are the sincerest, and most engaged of bands - emotive, political, passionate - lacking nothing in the way of conviction. In terms of launching into the crowd with dedication to songcraft, pulse of inspiration, and faith in a better future - this is maximum uplift.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">Now, 40 years after 1982's <i>New Gold Dream 81-82-83-84</i> - the greatest new romantic/ new wave LP of the 1980s, tied with one by <b>Echo & The Bunnymen</b> maybe; and arguably one of the most romantic and religious works of Scottish poetry and music ever composed, their latest is back - more bombastic than ever. In terms of grandeur, and rock drumming, and gospel choir backing, and guitars sounding like bagpipes, it's really the sequel to <i>Once Upon a Time</i>, out in 1985, but it has elements of <i>Sparkle in The Rain</i> as well from 1984.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">No band has ever produced one of their best albums 40 years after their last true period of greatness - maybe <b>Bob Dylan</b> has come close with <i>Love and Theft</i>. But Simple Minds have.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">The bad news first: this is an imperfect album, like nearly all their albums - only 9 tracks (the extra tracks are as good or better than a few included in the regular edition); and one or two are almost duds; there is no instrumental, a shame; and another one of their interpretations of <b>The Call</b>, their old friends from touring days. 'Planet Zero' is the weakest track, then the cover, which perhaps errs on the side of who to blame these days (not Americans or Russians, just corporate criminals); the remake of their earliest song, the insanely catchy and insanely Christian 'Act of Love' is the third weakest; there's a bizarre song about Human Trafficking that may be crass or brilliant - it sounds like <b>Men Without Hats</b>. But that means you get five of the best Simple Minds songs ever.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">That's the good news. And it is very good.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">'Vision Thing' and 'First You Jump' are supremely well-played and sung, uplifting, positive and inspiring gems, composed in the classic style. A+</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">The fourth track on the first side, 'Who Killed Truth?' is not only as good as those, but also political, and fully relevant to the Trump, twitter, fake news moment, but without any jarring direct references; allusive, loping, with hints of <b>U2</b>, it could be the next 'Alive or Kicking' - just very catchy. A+</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">And then, second side (vinyl), first track blows it all into the A++ category. 'Solstice Kiss' has a disheartening 'Belfast Child' opening, but suddenly emerges as, I think, one of the handful of truly great Simple Minds Tracks - in the top ten pantheon for sure. For beauty, emotional splurge, grandiosity and luminous passion, it's as good as anything from the classic 80-85 period. Pure MTV schmaltz. I love it.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">I can understand this being seen as dad rock, as out of date, but few if any younger bands give as much of themselves or offer as much potential joy and love in their OTT signature style. They're now <i>sui generis</i>, and as good as ever. Rejoice!</span></div>EYEWEARhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01900801847916951522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13726943.post-34863930659098437492022-12-01T13:30:00.000+00:002023-08-06T17:17:50.960+01:00new poem<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">eyewear because you see<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">through it<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>i can indent with
the best<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of them<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">but the curving lens<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">is housed ultimately<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>by an
acetate formal<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">design as shapely as a Hart<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Crane bridge<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>slung between failure<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">and visionary<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>which is where
love & desire<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">want to be<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in defence<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of all
short-sighted crests<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">waving coke bottles at light</span><o:p></o:p></p>EYEWEARhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01900801847916951522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13726943.post-68003554367258642112022-09-10T16:49:00.001+01:002023-08-06T17:20:36.773+01:00POEM IN MEMORIAM FOR HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b> </b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>In Memoriam<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b> </b></span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>The storm has taken down<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>the tree, which stood<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>seventy seasons by four,<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>to leave the arbour restless,<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>without a roof’s rising crown,<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>almost without a floor,<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>so skittering leaves flood<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>about, revealing lost acorns;<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>the forest is aghast, forlorn;<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>a tossed tempest grown out;<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>it is horrible emptiness.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>There is a legacy that lasts<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>past loss, the quick torn apart -<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>roots only deepen to be flown.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b> </b></span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>September 8, 2022</b></span><o:p></o:p></p>EYEWEARhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01900801847916951522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13726943.post-23045180921044774272022-09-08T18:46:00.004+01:002023-08-06T17:21:10.870+01:00Our great Queen has died<p>Nothing to be said just now.</p><p>Except, devastating news.</p><p>God save the King!</p>EYEWEARhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01900801847916951522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13726943.post-81448954404362537332022-09-05T19:01:00.005+01:002023-08-06T17:18:06.354+01:00New Poem<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">NEW POEM....</span></p><div class="l7ghb35v kjdc1dyq kmwttqpk gh25dzvf jikcssrz n3t5jt4f" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">On Circus Road I sat down,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">in NW8, so</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I knew what I was doing</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">with <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>a resonant trope,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">circling the tightrope tighter,</div></div><div class="l7ghb35v kjdc1dyq kmwttqpk gh25dzvf jikcssrz n3t5jt4f" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">after seeing my heart doctor,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">not my heart’s desire, no,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">on the six month anniversary</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">of the cardiac implant for</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">a broken heart; we cope,</div></div><div class="l7ghb35v kjdc1dyq kmwttqpk gh25dzvf jikcssrz n3t5jt4f" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">when we do, like Wendy,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">taking cocoa; or like Yeats,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">lamenting the circus animals</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">who got away. The young</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">actor from <i>Mad Max: Fury</i></div></div><div class="l7ghb35v kjdc1dyq kmwttqpk gh25dzvf jikcssrz n3t5jt4f" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Road </i>cycled past, a baby</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">strapped to his chest.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I was happy to see him ride.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I have eight years maybe,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">or thereabouts, to keep on going. </div></div><div class="l7ghb35v kjdc1dyq kmwttqpk gh25dzvf jikcssrz n3t5jt4f" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">To make a go of it all. Standing up</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">to endure feathered stallions</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">on a curving weathered saddle,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">as if starring in the big show.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Or not. No point in acting up,</div></div><div class="l7ghb35v kjdc1dyq kmwttqpk gh25dzvf jikcssrz n3t5jt4f" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">just to make a symbolic exit;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">there’s time left to write more,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">if not better, and finally grow</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">adult enough to love-glide,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">part barker, part swan, all heart.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div></div><div class="l7ghb35v kjdc1dyq kmwttqpk gh25dzvf jikcssrz n3t5jt4f" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">SEPTEMBER 5, 2022</div></div>EYEWEARhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01900801847916951522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13726943.post-17207442712949625212022-08-10T16:21:00.007+01:002023-08-06T17:18:08.753+01:00APOCALYPSE NEW<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG7bGJrcsny5IXLe4aZK5PIjmHvCJI-HxE9X3Bl1Gj--EnDK8F-WymiUqBsZWzd-DYWNrC-vX3B6enmUMtOcFi0EBjrIJAV9p2RrZui_gPQUSNLTRLhydg3FVnaj0Bdy3h_OjsJZFY1L2X_9vw3BRfHpxpUZ7Yh_oKV26HdYVyFUJRlgBwzSE/s628/kinsey45pool.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="628" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG7bGJrcsny5IXLe4aZK5PIjmHvCJI-HxE9X3Bl1Gj--EnDK8F-WymiUqBsZWzd-DYWNrC-vX3B6enmUMtOcFi0EBjrIJAV9p2RrZui_gPQUSNLTRLhydg3FVnaj0Bdy3h_OjsJZFY1L2X_9vw3BRfHpxpUZ7Yh_oKV26HdYVyFUJRlgBwzSE/s320/kinsey45pool.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I am back here from some personally challenging times, health-wise, including having a three-wire device implanted into my heart, a large blood clot on my heart, heart failure, and Covid twice in past two months. But enough about me. Recently I went on my first family vacation since the pandemic, and it was truly wonderful to see my brother, sister in law and godson. To swim. To even sip a bit of sangria.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Anyway, since I have been gone, the Ukraine war has increased in ferocity, and tens of thousands of people have died in the battle between Western liberal freedoms and the alternative autocratic vision; we have a European drought the worst in 500 years; polio back in London's water; Trump a martyr to the FBI and likely to be the next president; a China threatening Taiwan; and the worst economic slump in the UK in over 27 years, leading to severe fuel shortages, and a crisis for families trying to pay their bills, with inflation at 10% and rising and 5 quarters of recession on the way. Plus a lot of other horrible things, but the fact nuclear war, global warming, and new variants and viruses loom over us all, as well as heat waves, monkeypox and troubled governance, seems a lot.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I don't know what to say. Fortunate to be alive, and to be able to afford a holiday. Deeply concerned about the future.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Be well, be safe. Be good.</span></p>EYEWEARhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01900801847916951522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13726943.post-12314179556712897902022-04-07T17:11:00.003+01:002023-08-06T17:18:12.132+01:00Poem day before my 56th birthday<p></p><h2 style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;">Poem day before my 56<sup>th</sup>
birthday</span></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-line-height-alt: 12.0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The
perfect poem is out of sight, around the bend,<br />Part
optic fibre cables being laid underground,<br />Part
cherry blossoms staggeringly impermanent,<br />Outrageous
as Stravinsky music in the air,<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>Part
finely shattered, gold-re-joined, Satsuma vase,<br />Part
so-brazenly broken national laws,<br />Part
of the world as it moves around other worlds,<br />Part
so personal it embarrasses even itself,<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>Part
cruelly stern as a witchfinder general,<br />Part
wonderfully iconoclastic as a witch’s brew,<br />Part
cat sleeping, part cat leaping, part paw,<br />Part
mouse that got away; part all the pain<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>We
ever knew, and then some, and then some more;<br />The
treasure under the floorboards under the stairs,<br />Is
being written for someone else’s birthday,<br />By
someone else; won’t ever be written, to be true,<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>Because
perfection is the enemy of any friend<br />To
what is troubling to imagine, harder to rephrase.<br />That
won’t stop me from summoning this one up,<br />Stolen
from the mystery shelf where language lies.<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>In
my poem I’d need a bit of Canada, but not just snow,<br />Some
parental turmoil and all that sorrow, saved<br />Somehow
by compassion; sex of younger days, reviewed<br />By
religion, marriage and sickness, the bumbling through.<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>Camaraderie
bordering on true love, travel to odd climes;<br />The
flats in Budapest, Paris and London, over-booked,<br />Overlooking
trees; streets with prams not ever ours;<br />The
hours, the hours, of forgiving and consoling powers.<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p><o:p> <br /></o:p>APRIL
7, 2022</span></div>
<br /><p></p>EYEWEARhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01900801847916951522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13726943.post-72236455040457982822022-04-01T13:27:00.000+01:002023-08-06T17:18:15.017+01:00SNOW, NEW POEM<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Snow<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><o:p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">In Hampstead for Warfarin blood tests<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">I meet a lady with a cane at coffee after<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">who lives near Keats' house,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">whose mother knew Louis MacNeice;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><o:p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">whose husband, post-pacemaker,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">jumps from helicopters to ski;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">and I recite to her the poem 'Snow'<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">about the sudden world, particular,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><o:p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">indivisible, and we speak of books,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">how at Easter, she hides them<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">in her garden for her grandchildren,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">like chocolate eggs; and then she leaves;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><o:p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">and I reflect on the world of strangers,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">the world of blood, atomic, riven,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">how this April the coldest winds are<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">being driven to us from Russian forces;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><o:p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">how the white snow looks like surrender<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">being torn up into a polyglot roar<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">of refusal, anger, and civilian defiance;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">how I am thankful to the invisible maybe<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><o:p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">of creation for more hours in this flurry<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">of experiences, talking, being vulnerable,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">less dead than I could be, than others are,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">as snow unseasonably becomes real.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><o:p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><o:p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">April 1, 2022<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Hampstead, London</span><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>EYEWEARhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01900801847916951522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13726943.post-2787088910041576412022-03-17T16:12:00.005+00:002023-08-06T17:18:19.447+01:00new poem<p>PRE-OP SPRING DAY IN MARCH 2022</p><p><br /></p><p>It's been too long till spring -</p><p><span> is false. It's here, in time.</span><br /></p><p><span>just as it always was, a thing</span></p><p><span> like a wheel or a poem, rhyme;</span><br /></p><p><span><br /></span></p><p><span>that is, it has its schedule,</span></p><p><span> takes its turn, happens as it does.</span><br /></p><p><span>Still, the sun climbing trees, I'm full</span></p><p><span><span> to bursting with light's to and fros.</span><br /></span></p><p><span><span><br /></span></span></p><p><span><span>All is event, like thought, argument,</span></span></p><p><span><span><span> war or love; like a pacemaker</span><br /></span></span></p><p><span><span><span>device, implant I fear to have, spent</span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span> hours returning like a general to their</span><br /></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span>tent. It's life itself that surveys</span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span> maps, terrain, future battlefields.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span>Nothing less than this glorious day</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span> of impractical miracle-sun, big yields,</span><br /></p><p><span><br /></span></p><p><span>obliterates memories of lockdown, shelters</span></p><p><span><span> underground, darkness that preys</span><br /></span></p><p><span><span>on mind and heart-valves, those skelters</span></span></p><p><span><span><span> that turn about like unlovers, May's</span><br /></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span>dancers around the burgeoning pole.</span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span> I'm alive, for now, pre-op, thoughtful,</span><br /></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span>re-reading <i>The School of Donne</i>, again,</span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span> to be reminded of a deceased friend</span><br /></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span>to look at a brilliant mind as a season</span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span>of circuity, shock, and curative reason.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></p>EYEWEARhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01900801847916951522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13726943.post-70454355063823247612022-03-17T16:03:00.003+00:002023-08-06T17:18:21.521+01:00Ukraine<p>I have remained silent at my blog about the terrible invasion of Ukraine, because I have been ill, and also didn't want to say anything useless, as if my voice or opinion on this matter had much sway. I am now going to try and compile a fundraising anthology of poems, because I have experience of doing such things, and it seems a small way to raise some money, and perhaps print a few good poems that may inspire others to also help a refugee, or give some money or other material benefit. This is obviously a very dark and troubling time in our history, and I am worried of escalation to atomic weapon use, or chemical and biological weapons. I light a candle for Ukraine in my window. I will write more about the anthology soon, after my operation. Hopefully the peace deal will come soon.</p>EYEWEARhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01900801847916951522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13726943.post-73505730562442790482022-01-26T13:26:00.005+00:002023-12-31T15:53:19.265+00:00SWIFT REPORT 2021<span style="font-size: medium;">My report will be brief this year - I am grateful to be alive.</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">2021 was a very tough year for a lot of people - and 2022 looks to be also very challenging.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Up until December, 2021, I would have said the best of the year was keeping the Eyewear publishing company going so it could reach its 10th year (2022), and therefore keeping a small good team in work; and 100s of books in print.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Personally, hiking in Northern Ireland/the North of Ireland, and doing wild swimming, and training with Al Beard, and Wimbledon, would have been summer highlights; plus great sporting events, and the English almost winning the Euros...</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Then, a few days before Christmas, I went into the hospital for heart failure; I have a large blood clot on my heart, and my heart was only working 17% or so. Now it is up to 22%. I am off work, and still seriously ill, on 15 or more tablets a day. My family is worried, it is a super worrying time. I am focused on recovery, doing what must be done, staying calm as possible.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">I confess to being very concerned about Ukraine, and about keeping the BSPG Eyewear legacy going if possible. My own ego is burnt away in the shock and sadness of the past weeks.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">I hope to reach the spring, and to be able to one day swim again. I am blessed with being able to walk for 15 minutes now, maybe more with time.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Nothing is more important than love. I have wasted so much of life in pursuit of worldly things that evaporate at any moment.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Only God outlasts the nonsense of the sensual world. Be well, do good.</span></div>EYEWEARhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01900801847916951522noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13726943.post-55722507200441314162021-12-04T14:28:00.003+00:002023-08-06T17:18:25.899+01:00CALM BEFORE THE STORMS?<span style="font-size: medium;">Depending on where you live in Europe, 'Christmas is cancelled' is already a thing. Lockdowns and major new waves of Delta/Omicron have already started in Ireland, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, and beyond. Travel is being curtailed, as is access to pubs, restaurants and crowded events. In England, the most laissez-faire of the UK's nations, there is a sort of blasé exceptionalism, commingled with a frantic surge in third (and fourth) vaccinations (boosters). The UK government has been keen to normalise the situation since summer, and 'move the conversation on' - the new variant is a bloody impertinence, and not on message at all.</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">This blog and its chief writer-editor are not optimists. I find the history of human conduct to be an almost infinite library of ignorance, cruelty and self-interest, leavened at times with striking acts of sacrifice, wisdom, and kindness noteworthy by their relative rarity. Violence and depravity seem hard-wired, but even if it is only cultural, this madness, it seems endemic to every culture, to some degree; and the left-right political struggle is probably eternal, since neither perspective has the full monopoly on sense. Science progresses, curing ills, but inventing new ones. We breathe in millions of small plastic particles daily, a microcosm of the macro-destruction visited on the planet by our technologies and industries. Even computing has a global heating footprint, a mammoth one.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Anyway, there are two ways to interpret the Omicron information. We are told we will know 'more' in 'two or three weeks' - in short, Christmas, when it may be too late.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">If Omicron is going to be milder, and mostly a tempest in a teapot, fine, stop reading now.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">It may be.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">However, every thing known so far suggests the following. Omicron</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">1. is astonishingly more mutated than any previous variant</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">2. escapes some or all immunity from previous infection</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">3. probably evades some if not all vaccine immunity</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">4. is maybe 500% more contagious than Delta</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">5. is likely no more mild than Delta and may make children sicker</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">6. is in the UK now</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Given these 6 statements, it is not hard to see where a new wave hits the UK in the next 3-7 weeks, and forces a lockdown.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">If 5 times more people get ill with Covid, 5 times more people would be hospitalised and 5 times more die - </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">this would be 250,000 cases a day, 35,000 in hospital a day, and around 700 deaths a day.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">If the virus also evades immunity even by 10% (and it is likely by far more), and is even 5% more fatal, we could soon be around 1,000 deaths a day, without lockdown.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Anyway, we may be fortunate, we will know soon.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Meanwhile, <b>President Biden</b> and the US state department warn that Russia is planning to invade Ukraine in January. They have warned of strong financial punishments, but it is hard not to see some form of military engagement between superpowers developing.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">China could choose this moment to invade Taiwan. China seems to have hypersonic weapons technology that is 10-30 years in advance of the West.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">It is possible no wars will happen in the next 60 days, and no terrible new waves in the UK (though these are happening everywhere else).</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Nevertheless, the fact that the daily news reports contain such possibilities, and the uncertainty is so high, means this is inarguably the bleakest moment in human history since 1938-39.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">17% of UK adults are on anti-depressants; 1 in 6 British adults polled say the world will never go back to normal. This is a frightening, anxious, depressing, and profoundly strange time; we have not even mentioned the new risks from AI, and the erratic weather, the Brexit delays, and the impact on mental health from social media.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Every day at the moment is a bit of a slog through a tundra-like waste land - one needs to keep going. one can't, one will. Very <b>Beckett</b>.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Or maybe it will all be fun and sunshine going forward?</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">The human spirit is being tested, let us hope we do not fail.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>EYEWEARhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01900801847916951522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13726943.post-62678595895525963222021-11-13T13:00:00.003+00:002023-08-06T17:18:30.426+01:00International Poetry Reading Today<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIqdYq4dQTV0uL92X_ozS3_mTHnE5QzeB01_B30fd9Bw0BUWpbmp6jfpFrWNU0FwDt-CDlwQ1DltVu3xPG4b980KJG_VsAp4ZWKug3xNYDY1uZBHEbSNo-5v4JkEy6QBmtrrwAZw/s1688/POSTERFORPOETRYEVENT.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1688" data-original-width="1190" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIqdYq4dQTV0uL92X_ozS3_mTHnE5QzeB01_B30fd9Bw0BUWpbmp6jfpFrWNU0FwDt-CDlwQ1DltVu3xPG4b980KJG_VsAp4ZWKug3xNYDY1uZBHEbSNo-5v4JkEy6QBmtrrwAZw/w452-h640/POSTERFORPOETRYEVENT.jpg" width="452" /></a></div><br /><p></p>EYEWEARhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01900801847916951522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13726943.post-7952896110474637932021-11-13T02:11:00.008+00:002023-08-06T17:18:31.797+01:00new poem<h1 style="text-align: left;"> C<span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">rucifixum docet veritatem</span></h1><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I am there now, the place where</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I can say to you directly</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">What the tricks of language</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Can hinder or form,</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I know that to keep it interesting</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Is the price of attention, you go</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Variously across the field,</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">It’s a show, and a tell, but the main fact</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Is talking, some sharing, a gesture</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Out to another, maybe a friend</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Who is not even real, yet,</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">An apparition of apprehension,</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Expected attendee at the imaginary</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Reading in the heaven of elsewhere,</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">That place without pornography,</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Alcohol, violence, pills, and screaming;</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">That ice palace of peace, unlike any</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Genuine mind, I am on the boil,</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">A lobster reddening, on ferocious</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Pain attention, it’s all apart now,</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Break it open, and they mock it up,</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The they are you, and elseward to the world,</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">You know I am hated, have felt that slap;</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Have been kicked to the concrete</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And licked a boot; had a cigarette appoint</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Itself its red dragon my maker;</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Thank you, masters of the cruel quickening;</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I know now a meaning, a need</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Greater than religion, war or surgery;</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">More compelling than sexual congress,</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Or rock-climbing; falling, even more freely</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Given – here I am, yours to arrow,</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Ribbon me with stripes,</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I give good Christ.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Not yours, not mine, just a body with soul</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Tied to it, as they say in poems;</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I am the messenger, do not spare me;</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Show the crowds your un-empathy;</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">It’s strong to be empty and immediate,</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Do the navel now; I am pierced daily by</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Memory and experience; epistemology</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Proves that the facts are solid, and sharp;</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Lie on the gurney and leak</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Into the bucket like a butchered animal</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Grateful for love; for how we touch them.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I am the message and I come to say</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">You’ve been petty since foundation day;</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">You’re scared, but cut it out, we see through</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The fear, the protecting ranking of the sickly canon;</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">You kill the art that you feed on;</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Go home and consider your positions.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">You’d ignore the babe in the manger</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And bow to the jackal king, you’re about fuss,</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And what you think you need, grandeur –</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Look again – the spirits of any twisted age</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Are grotesque, strange, margined, and shy,</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Not dressed to thrill the jockeying spittle stage;</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I resign the page if it is your page;</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I vomit words if they are your words;</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I want less than minus thirty-three from your</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Bodies, towers of recognition, and parades;</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Your floats are maggoty, the horses are choking</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">On a bit enmeshed with human shit.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Jesus, you’re the pits. I’m moving on.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">My sheet lightning, will light the way</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">To forty years of worthless compositions;</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I ride to Valhalla on a dying chimera who speaks</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Latin like she knew the gods are waiting with feed;</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">She is winged, kind, powerfully magic, and given to song.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">She sings to me that about my beautiful little lines</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">You were always a silly-billy, and so sad-wrong.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I was the stabbed child in the crowd</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Granting an audience to the loud papal legate,</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Bringing tears to the desert in my icicles,</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And my husky-dog pulling a million sweet books;</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">You spared me few looks; you were busy being critical.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">You missed your chance also, as did Lawrence once,</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">With one of the Lords of nature; you had power,</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">But not the gift of seeing the gold beneath your shod feet;</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Shod in snakeskin, but the socks were pure lamb;</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Poor lamb. You stood on God when you walked over me;</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Just as you walk across God every time you forget</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">That the boats coming bring the archangels</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Across the Channel, to drown for you, to die to teach</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The only message any magician worth their salt</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Knows, Deus cecidit ad terram dico vobis</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">sunt iam deo</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">tibi stultus</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">reges, ut sunt servi.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Love the upside-down</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">fire and kiss</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">the inserted grail.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">November 13, 2021</div></div>EYEWEARhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01900801847916951522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13726943.post-2053533500877233852021-11-12T19:48:00.003+00:002023-08-06T17:18:33.328+01:00NOVEMBER 2021<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">NOVEMBER
2021<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">War is
coming<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">or
maybe it has begun<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">just
like somewhere<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">it is
already the sun<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">over
the banners<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">just
like Bannon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">is
never alone<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">so
long as there is a phone;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">plans
percolate;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">waters
rise, small nations drown;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">deafening
tanks blitz a bit<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">in the
Eastern part of town<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">and
all Mrs Kane's pieces<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">begin
to fit; destiny is on<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">a date
with a modern Kaiser;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">the
West bides its time<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">not
wanting to blurt havoc<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">and
let the dogs out<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">just
yet; no one wants guerre<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">when
they can enjoy butter;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">but
errors happen, Chief,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">as do
impactful mental states;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">the
great men of history<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">may
have downsized a tad,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">though
hypersonic threats<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">move
past mortal disbelief<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">to
break a lot of conference plates.<o:p></o:p></span></p>EYEWEARhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01900801847916951522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13726943.post-63893451933627785072021-10-19T21:47:00.000+01:002023-08-06T17:18:34.763+01:00poem about Apple Picking<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">ABOUT APPLE PICKING<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">one is never wrong.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The orchard itself is the correct<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">answer to any question.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Climbing is a problem,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">but gravity solves even that<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">for some. The round truth<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">of an apple is sufficient;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">being lost here is to be found;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">it is the end of the quest,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">best friend to cheese;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">and can become cider<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">soon enough. The fall<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">to the very ground<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">if it happened, was near<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">this row or that of reaching,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">autumn themes, the cooling air,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">a sense of collecting the divine<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">in a modest wicker basket.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Science is what finds the good<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">among the bad, the worms,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">centring on the crisp core's seeds,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">the ample harvest before the frost,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">that sweet-bitter-tanging bite,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">flight into so many delicious names.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">October 19, 2021<o:p></o:p></span></p>EYEWEARhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01900801847916951522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13726943.post-47850664525720430652021-10-11T19:47:00.002+01:002023-08-06T17:18:38.727+01:00NEW POEM FOR CANADIAN THANKSGIVING<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgzxGlGlkM8eIFSowsjOXlkIeUzmc8VwX6iEbRu-mxeKwujHlcPS0rta1KhiE9Lo3yxeVbdDat0YyGpIr4NLpmGCz0uJG4qMOUuZboRQm19-R5Io5VibUqMkvf1igKi0PRrViuOQ/s496/happy-thanksgiving-canada.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="372" data-original-width="496" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgzxGlGlkM8eIFSowsjOXlkIeUzmc8VwX6iEbRu-mxeKwujHlcPS0rta1KhiE9Lo3yxeVbdDat0YyGpIr4NLpmGCz0uJG4qMOUuZboRQm19-R5Io5VibUqMkvf1igKi0PRrViuOQ/s320/happy-thanksgiving-canada.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">POEM FOR CANADIAN THANKSGIVING 2021</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;"><i>for Michael Kovrig</i></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">An
entirely unearned sense of unexpected ease<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Comes
this Sunday, perhaps because of the earlier<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Raucous
post-mask brunch at a table with seven others<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Debating,
rowdily, the British empire, how one manager’s<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nursing
home saw fifteen deaths in two weeks last year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Over
vegan crepes and flat whites, after exercising<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">In
the park, amid rain, then sun, as a London October, this<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Occurs;
I am gently teased for publishing conservatives<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">But
can any book deserve a bonfire,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Even
as evil as <i>M. K</i>.? I try to justify the neutral stance<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Assayed
by publishers wanting to take no sides,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Yet
it feels a poor excuse for indecision, I agree.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">I
am thankful for much this year even apart from survival,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">And
the lives of my loved ones who survived,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">I
am one of the most fortunate of those not famous, not lean,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">I
can give thanks also for the weather, and my God, who,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Whether
or not I believe in them, either remains<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Or
was never present anyhow. And that’s the muddling<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Position
in the road I am on; relatively powerless,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">In
the grand game of policy and airlifts, but so much more<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Powerful
than the wretched of the earth, the refugees<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Who
never seem welcomed, whose bodies <i>and</i> minds<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Are
unwanted, who do not represent good value,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Are
not start-up quality, who we do not invest in.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">And
I am with sin and have the nightmares to wreck sleep,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">But
I do not cross the deep to source a stable land.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">And
yes, various worlds complain of imbalanced needs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">And
we have been unable yet to inculcate our creeds,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">So
that they interleave our patterns of behaviour,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Because,
being humanised animals, we expertly misuse<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Our
capacity to love, and to save each other, at sea.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">And
Thanksgiving was, it may be, a foul instance<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Of
settler hypocrisy, praising a benefactor for things<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Taken
for granted, stolen from others’ soil; no<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Burnt
wick without first enflamed oil; the devil<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Is
in the forgetfulness before the industry and toil.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">We
neglect the other as we neglect the souls<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">We
no longer seem to believe we have, we here<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Being,
I fear, only the common sense I can glean from talk,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">The
media, reading. And without a soul, without a respect<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Of
all widespread, strife-facing, endangered communities,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">We
must remain encamped, in ignoring forts, staving off<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">The
wilderness in us we exploit<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">To
be cold heartless conquerors,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">That
gets projected, like a Mercator map, to misshape<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">What
the world out there is, or might be said to look like,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Which,
being contested daily, is hard to see, really,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Let
alone alter, let alone bear.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">But
we do know our little forts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Are
partial, are enclosed, and do not share the bountiful<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Bounty
of what is, in fact, spread out before us, to hand,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">What
can be uplifted, uprooted,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Drilled
for, removed. The high natural we decline<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">To
adore, in our tech-researched quest for artifice,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">For
what the next advance will be.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">There
is something, small,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">That
feels like presented, actual material –<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">A
channel-wet child, that we can hold, if not secure,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Whose
very encumbrance feels<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">About
the same as a bar of solid gold.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">THANKSGIVING,
OCTOBER 2021<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><p></p>EYEWEARhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01900801847916951522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13726943.post-33605810705622201972021-09-28T18:57:00.003+01:002023-08-06T17:18:40.865+01:00 WHO CARES WHO THE NEXT JAMES BOND WILL BE WHEN WE HAVE CRAIG TODAY?<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiECH2Avg0gIqdD5lCldcNGtZVH__2VhR_E_tnrC_k15rsG1Cx2WHEvi_or7eQbH05eDTB70DM6ohJSX8mVrBUcb0T5VA79WsrSQqEgsvNub-0edigUhECgT1TnQDgflXOSYEXw_g/s450/Cutler-Gross-Eyewear-Collection-Autumn-Winter-11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="338" height="501" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiECH2Avg0gIqdD5lCldcNGtZVH__2VhR_E_tnrC_k15rsG1Cx2WHEvi_or7eQbH05eDTB70DM6ohJSX8mVrBUcb0T5VA79WsrSQqEgsvNub-0edigUhECgT1TnQDgflXOSYEXw_g/w376-h501/Cutler-Gross-Eyewear-Collection-Autumn-Winter-11.jpg" width="376" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">WHO</span><span data-offset-key="pnau-1-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"> CARES WHO THE NEXT JAMES BOND WILL BE WHEN WE HAVE CRAIG TODAY?</span></span></p><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6li33" data-offset-key="bqqlu-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bqqlu-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="bqqlu-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6li33" data-offset-key="9kb3o-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9kb3o-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="9kb3o-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">i.m. Douglas Barbour who died yesterday.</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6li33" data-offset-key="8rkfp-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8rkfp-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="8rkfp-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6li33" data-offset-key="2edne-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2edne-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="2edne-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Been a while since I thought a poem was a pop song</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6li33" data-offset-key="cono4-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cono4-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="cono4-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Instead of a Walter ppk to the heart of the superstructure,</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6li33" data-offset-key="4mbmn-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4mbmn-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="4mbmn-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Interrogating the very concept of linguistic designer thoughts;</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6li33" data-offset-key="9gcgp-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9gcgp-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="9gcgp-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6li33" data-offset-key="6memd-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6memd-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="6memd-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">A poet never changes their spots, just their t-shirts, the ideas</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6li33" data-offset-key="6jon4-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6jon4-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="6jon4-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">At the core of a human are not easily ironed out with ironic</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6li33" data-offset-key="bfs8-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bfs8-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="bfs8-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">References to transhumanism, or Mao; no, we can smell fear</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6li33" data-offset-key="qf0t-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="qf0t-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="qf0t-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6li33" data-offset-key="frdg9-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="frdg9-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="frdg9-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Of losing the bank vault to the Beagle Boys, we know when Herr</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6li33" data-offset-key="e2moa-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="e2moa-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="e2moa-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Nobel really likes the boy with the bowl cut, or the red lingerie.</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6li33" data-offset-key="btvkv-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="btvkv-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="btvkv-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">It’s a deontological low point when Django Unchained may be</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6li33" data-offset-key="329mc-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="329mc-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="329mc-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6li33" data-offset-key="98qss-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="98qss-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="98qss-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">A cogent argument against slavery, and history isn’t; but</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6li33" data-offset-key="7kcnb-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7kcnb-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="7kcnb-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">That’s a filmic nostalgic revenge fantasy; we have to save</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6li33" data-offset-key="8l6ci-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8l6ci-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="8l6ci-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">A planet from ourselves with only The Poetics, and conflictual</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6li33" data-offset-key="d3nhc-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="d3nhc-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="d3nhc-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6li33" data-offset-key="8b4la-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8b4la-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="8b4la-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Arguably biological imperatives driving cleavage between</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6li33" data-offset-key="77tbi-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="77tbi-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="77tbi-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">The nation-states and free-floating transnationals in the way;</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6li33" data-offset-key="aahn4-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="aahn4-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="aahn4-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">We know more words than we can fathom ways out of the sack</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6li33" data-offset-key="1hl1r-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1hl1r-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="1hl1r-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6li33" data-offset-key="9msh0-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9msh0-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="9msh0-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">The kittens, which includes us, are in – the Rawls Ideal Kitten</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6li33" data-offset-key="9hmvh-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9hmvh-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="9hmvh-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Sack theory of Justice – but it took Oakeshott to put poetry</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6li33" data-offset-key="1l2hs-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1l2hs-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="1l2hs-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">At the centre of a disinterested worldview; some conversations</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6li33" data-offset-key="45mae-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="45mae-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="45mae-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6li33" data-offset-key="cpdvm-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cpdvm-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="cpdvm-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Aren’t about power, or me and you, or the science of bees,</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6li33" data-offset-key="b9rlo-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="b9rlo-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="b9rlo-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Though all of these should be truly engaged with, and co-determine</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6li33" data-offset-key="9s8kd-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9s8kd-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="9s8kd-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">All actions we choose to claim we decide when we kill with a spy</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6li33" data-offset-key="fslbn-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fslbn-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="fslbn-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6li33" data-offset-key="atre5-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="atre5-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="atre5-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Sent to do the bidding of an elected democracy, give or take a few</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6li33" data-offset-key="5anog-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5anog-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="5anog-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Computer alterations of the ballots along the rocky road to freedom.</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6li33" data-offset-key="9q9rc-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9q9rc-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="9q9rc-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">I’m unclear on what it is we need to do to overcome our own resistance</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6li33" data-offset-key="e6c1m-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="e6c1m-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="e6c1m-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6li33" data-offset-key="96tt3-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="96tt3-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="96tt3-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">To what needs to be done, and maybe happy families, love, gyms,</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6li33" data-offset-key="fvt2j-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fvt2j-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="fvt2j-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">The earnings including bonus of a good person, can’t lead forcefully;</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6li33" data-offset-key="9ciq-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9ciq-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="9ciq-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">What if the very genre, the tropes, the dramatic shape of the play,</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6li33" data-offset-key="6o48g-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6o48g-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="6o48g-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6li33" data-offset-key="bqtm6-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bqtm6-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="bqtm6-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Is the problematic issue? The ideology of ideologies, the fact of speaking,</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6li33" data-offset-key="fmfci-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fmfci-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="fmfci-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">The art of artifice, the ability to make shit up, is the stumbling block?</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6li33" data-offset-key="c2nb1-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="c2nb1-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="c2nb1-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">My cat owns zero property, is a year zero creature, unshaped by much</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6li33" data-offset-key="ejqc4-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ejqc4-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="ejqc4-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6li33" data-offset-key="19b74-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="19b74-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="19b74-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">More than breeding, instinct and how he’s been cuddled since birth;</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6li33" data-offset-key="euk04-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="euk04-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="euk04-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">So even animals, then, are part of the set of objects controlled</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6li33" data-offset-key="f4lqg-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="f4lqg-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="f4lqg-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">By ideation’s desiring hands, the caresses of want, supply,</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6li33" data-offset-key="c6tq1-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="c6tq1-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="c6tq1-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6li33" data-offset-key="207qp-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="207qp-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="207qp-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">And superfluous demand. Petrol is missing, anger soars, Volvos halt</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6li33" data-offset-key="9sguh-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9sguh-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="9sguh-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">The army comes out, to deliver the gold dust that runs</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6li33" data-offset-key="5vq8m-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5vq8m-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="5vq8m-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">The world; how will a universe without fossil fuels go?</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6li33" data-offset-key="4h5l7-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4h5l7-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="4h5l7-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6li33" data-offset-key="4m01m-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4m01m-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="4m01m-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">I guess the battery kings will collude with the electricity kings,</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6li33" data-offset-key="bgfob-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bgfob-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="bgfob-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Who will intermarry with the waterfall kings, and the wind kings,</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6li33" data-offset-key="5hd4-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5hd4-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="5hd4-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">And the electric cable kings, and the rare mineral kings,</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6li33" data-offset-key="52amm-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="52amm-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="52amm-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6li33" data-offset-key="6bgmk-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6bgmk-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="6bgmk-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">And the kings who design five-time-faster than sound rockets,</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6li33" data-offset-key="77t7e-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="77t7e-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="77t7e-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">And these will decide who gets the manuka honey, who fiscally</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6li33" data-offset-key="dk5kl-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dk5kl-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="dk5kl-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Owns the Labradors, the Persians, British Blues, Siamese,</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6li33" data-offset-key="e1rqe-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="e1rqe-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="e1rqe-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6li33" data-offset-key="dvevs-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dvevs-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="dvevs-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">The Pekinese, and all the other behaved pets we will still call ours,</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6li33" data-offset-key="7data-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7data-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="7data-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">When we run out of things to own, when we have no murderous</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6li33" data-offset-key="ah6q0-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ah6q0-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="ah6q0-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Needs in our societies’ wince-inducingly compromised hearts.</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6li33" data-offset-key="bhsu5-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bhsu5-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="bhsu5-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6li33" data-offset-key="78ssa-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="78ssa-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="78ssa-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">SEPTEMBER 28, 2021</span></div></div>EYEWEARhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01900801847916951522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13726943.post-63601612008519343032021-08-30T18:39:00.005+01:002023-08-06T17:18:42.474+01:00On Literary Fame<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmkJodcQArt9k3sic_Xfsl5MwbrT40gwK_ctDK_fpL4MaW9cxQxTQzAt35MD8nO6xVO-cHOoSg61WiRk3VN0MKbNNVdE2kU3TaC459W94IdFLiXKIyW5Xn9wR3HcZrCZSgNIQ2bA/s300/_40819677_miller_ap.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="220" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmkJodcQArt9k3sic_Xfsl5MwbrT40gwK_ctDK_fpL4MaW9cxQxTQzAt35MD8nO6xVO-cHOoSg61WiRk3VN0MKbNNVdE2kU3TaC459W94IdFLiXKIyW5Xn9wR3HcZrCZSgNIQ2bA/w469-h640/_40819677_miller_ap.jpg" width="469" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p>Very few writers would honestly say they'd prefer to be completely unknown (hence, unread) rather than famous - but in the past few days a remarkable media and PR campaign has sought to announce that an Irish writer, </span><b style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Beautiful-World-Where-Are-internationally/dp/0571365426/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=sally+rooney&qid=1630346480&sr=8-1">Sally Rooney</a></b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">, is now 'The world's most famous' young writer. And in many magazines and frontpages of major national UK newspapers over the past few days, the 'hell of fame' has been noted. It is not the author's fault that another 'hell' - that of dying or suffering in Kabul outside the airport while desperately clinging to hope - was also being mentioned, often on the same front pages.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">There are levels of fame, and therefore, levels of hell, no doubt.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">This post is not about the Irish novelist, however. We must wish her well and hope she manages to enjoy her success and keep writing: her efforts have paid off, and that is all to the good. Literary envy is a poison no one should spice their food with.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Let us consider a point that many editors for newspapers may forget, as well as programmers for festivals. It is so simple as to almost be a truism, except it isn't, because it is not definitively true and many people don't believe it, but here it is: sometimes the best writers are not the most famous ones.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I only mention this, and not in a bitter way, because as a publisher, I publish dozens of books by very brilliant, and talented, writers and poets, who are, factually-speaking, not 'the most famous' in their fields. They are all, without exception, still worth reading, and, in the opinion of many readers, their work equals that of much better known writers.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">This is the way of the world. There is always a bit of luck, a bit of media strategy, and some financial clout, behind the generation of fame. There is also, usually, also some reason for the fame generated by the quality of the work. In literature, famous writers are normally also good, if not great, writers.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">But so are the dozens and thousands of writers, not short-listed, prize-winning, or mega-published and gigantic-selling, often good or excellent writers.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">There is no accounting for taste, and in a sense, the most famous writers, by definition, are the most popular, and hence, the most enjoyed by their age. <b>Dickens</b> was popular, famous, and a genius. So too, <b>Plath</b> is now famous, and a genius.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">But fame can be cruel, and fickle. Famously, when the once-famous author of <i>The Great Gatsby</i> died - often considered one of the greatest works of literature ever - <i>The New York Times</i> mis-spelled his name in its small obituary. And didn't mention <i>Gatsby</i>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Meanwhile, <b>E.A. Poe</b>, now clearly a figure to always be studied, if not respected, remains a best-selling, famous and popular writer, but in his own lifetime, except for a brief period when he was reciting his poem 'The Raven' he was not even among the top 100 most famous poets or writers in the USA, according to lists of the time. One academic, examining these lists, observed that NONE of the other poets listed is anymore known or read.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Fame changes as does literary good fortune. <b>Ben Johnson</b>, one of the finest poets and playwrights of the English language, was so poor when he died, he had to be buried standing up.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Countee Cullen</b> was once the most famous African American poet; now he is less-read than many others of the Harlem Renaissance, and often forgotten. Yet, he remains a poet of greatness. <b>Dickinson </b>is the most famous woman poet of all time, after <b>Sappho</b>, and yet both had difficult reception histories.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Posthumous fame is an ambiguous friend, but is surely to be welcomed more than posthumous oblivion. It is the only fame that mattered to Horace and other classical poets; <b>John Donne</b> barely published any poems in his lifetime, and was best-known as a giver of sermons when alive. <b>Margaret Atwood</b>, when I was in university, was more famous as a poet, than as a novelist; the pendulum swings.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The idea of being a 'famous younger' writer or poet is always a double-edged compliment, because the young grow up, all too soon. <b>Bret Easton Ellis</b> managed the feat of being famous young, then writing a masterpiece when a bit older. <b>Keats</b> is forever young, though friends though his name was writ on water. A few years ago, <b>Zadie Smith</b> was the world's most famous young novelist - now she is merely one of its greatest, period. <b>Tolstoy</b> when old was famous for disavowing his younger works.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Fame is a funny thing. Except when it isn't.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">But it should never be the only reason to read a writer. Who knows, you may even discovered someone unsung, and help make them... well, famous...</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>EYEWEARhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01900801847916951522noreply@blogger.com0