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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Notes towards a new anti-war 'epic' ...

« Last post by Phil Talbot on September 14, 2025, 07:03:44 PM »

You is I, and I is you,
We is one, and we is two.

The sentimental greetings cards were not for us.
We would never have presented worlds
Of blue’d violets and reddened roses.
And ‘LOVE’?! A mass-debased/masturbated word ...
And yet we ‘demanded’ it ...

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Notes towards a new anti-war 'epic' ...

« Last post by Phil Talbot on September 13, 2025, 01:23:57 PM »

VisualiZers ...
Creatures of a new/old(e) STone/1 age,
We conjured up ‘visions’, or let them come ...
Grunted communication ...
“Pictures, I have some!”
Wild and Worldly Whirling ‘wing’d Will’n Words!
Tame static {lo’er KaZez} images)

...

As long as eyes/i’s/ IZ ... can see,
...
And a tongue (sort o’)speaks,
We’ll sit beside ponds,
&/or in rooms with leaks ...

...

(So said the ‘visually literate’ 0xy(spotty.creamed, admass  o’erwhelmed)p.t. ... a creature of a ‘new St1 age’ ...)

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Notes towards a new anti-war 'epic' ...

« Last post by Phil Talbot on September 13, 2025, 01:03:18 PM »

Later ...
Your tired head on my faithless arm ...
We watched the foreign language film ...
But ... the (nuclear?) sub(marine?)titles ...
We’re burred/blared/Blair’d ...
By charged air and rain ...
Leaving U(.)S(.) ...
With more (wholly wooden actors’) pictures ...
... to/2 think in ...

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Notes towards a new anti-war 'epic' ...

« Last post by Phil Talbot on September 11, 2025, 04:11:23 PM »

Well read in the ‘set txts’o’RedbriXwisdom’ ...
Thus we spoke in echoes o’ Raskal I love ‘
(much was lost in tranZlation/tranZliteration).

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Notes towards a new anti-war 'epic' ...

« Last post by Phil Talbot on September 11, 2025, 03:55:14 PM »

Well read in the set texts of Redbrick (universe) Wisdom ...
Thus we spoke in echoes of the m’spelled back cover
O’the Penguin Classics ‘A NietZshche Reader (... n’s “approach and ideas are as relevant today as they ever were’ ...)

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Notes towards a new anti-war 'epic' ...

« Last post by Phil Talbot on September 11, 2025, 03:39:58 PM »

You loved with ‘All Your Heart,
And All Your Soul’. “Insincere fool!”
I lectured: cliches deadening effects on thought/feeling ...
(Resentful? Pained? Cowed?) You said no more. 

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Notes towards a new anti-war 'epic' ...

« Last post by Phil Talbot on September 11, 2025, 03:30:18 PM »

Little knowing, but too ‘knowing’,
The sentimental greetings cards were not for us:
We’d never’ve sent (market driven) blued violets nor red roses
(With or without computer ‘enhancement’).
And ‘LOVE’?! A mass debased word!
Yet you and me demanded it.
...

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Notes towards a new anti-war 'epic' ...

« Last post by Phil Talbot on September 11, 2025, 03:13:47 PM »

Fractured / fragMentAl proZe ...
ProZe fragments in VulgarScripts ...
&/or ...
Goethe: ... things we are used to haunt the mind ... paradise is what one/we left behind ...

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Notes towards a new anti-war 'epic' ...

« Last post by Phil Talbot on September 11, 2025, 02:54:41 PM »

After Ovid. The ‘author’ intended to (re)write a story o’War&Peace’. But Love (& other distractions - including not enough talent(s)) prevented this. So, by stealing a metrical foot/metre from every other line (this might be seen as an ironical smile at Virgil’s epically opening line (in adapted translation): “of arms and the man/woman common humanity I sing’) he pretends to be a Love songster instead ...

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Notes towards a new anti-war 'epic' ...

« Last post by Phil Talbot on September 11, 2025, 02:30:50 PM »

We sat by a pond one day in autumn,
Being, so we thought, questingly quarrelsome,
But the details (o’) of dispute, meaning (o’so)(2/too) much then
Now, crowd-absorbed, are forgotten.