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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, 07:30:03 PM »

The kissing kouples kitshness brought us kloser. ...

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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, 07:27:48 PM »

Well/badly read. In books /0’b.grade red brick wisdom,
(Thus spake RaskolniKov, in translation/tranZlieteratiion...)
He killed an  ‘Arab’ ...

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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, 07:13:30 PM »

You loved with all your heart
And all your soul. Cliched fool,
I lectured: insincere’s deadening effect 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 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.
...