Notes towards a new anti-war 'epic' ...

[Phil Talbot]

TRUMP/talbot: i/we don’t ‘trust’ any-one much; but who(m) was the most/least paranoid? USA boss? Or small time small place small town Boy.Of.S.Shields, p.X ...

[Phil Talbot]

YoU is i/I & I/i IS U.,

wE IS OnE, & i iS u



yoU is Eye aNd I is yOu;

WE Is onE AND WE IS two

[Phil Talbot]

FragMe[a]ntal[iZ'd]ProZe ...

[Phil Talbot]

i IS eYE, [&] u Is ewe
we is one AND WE IS TWo

[Phil Talbot]

ABC's leXicons o'Lovin'Cliches ...

[Phil Talbot]

YOU loved with 'ALL YOU HEART AND ALL YOUr soul', I sniggered @ the 'fallin'off' ...

[Phil Talbot]

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[Phil Talbot]

But the prince, you C., had got(10) blott’O, and his avenues were cream and clowDy rotten, and his (previously fairly flowing) streets were hard (,solid) and somewhat clotted.

[Phil Talbot]

Brown’n: i is I. U is you ...

[Phil Talbot]

You is I, and i is u,
We is one/1, & we is 2/too(much 2 ask 4) ...

[Phil Talbot]

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.

[Phil Talbot]

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 ...

[Phil Talbot]

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

[Phil Talbot]

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.
...

[Phil Talbot]

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.