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« Reply #135 on: September 28, 2025, 06:17:34 PM »
The never ending (seeming) winter rain
Does Eternal Moisture give.
These ‘rules’ nourish and maintain
All Creatures that on Earth do Live ...

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« Reply #136 on: September 28, 2025, 06:25:41 PM »
No Worldly Things
Can Continuance have
Unless LOVE brings
The Cause the First/1st Essence gave ...

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« Reply #137 on: October 09, 2025, 09:20:10 AM »
... when many/most English/British people heard/herd the (‘collectivizing’) word “Dunkirk” ... they thought of an army being rescued from a beach ... B.ng/being rescued by a small fleet of small boats ... orderly queues of (mostly) men wading into the sea ...
... that seemed to symboliZe all that was ‘best’ about U.K.G.B.&N.I....
... but(t) .... which, perhaps, had/has now been ‘lost’ for\4/‘ever’ ...
(... even (al)’though few had a clear idea of what ‘Dunkirk Spirit’ really “‘mean’T” ...

... ‘all things’ to ‘all people’ ..
... ‘P/platonic “I/...’id’Deals/IDEA(l)s ...)

... & when ‘he’ encountered the word/name “Dunkirk” ... all she/he thought-felt of was a ‘liver’ ... a ‘steaming’ stripped off blown a-part liver ... in a ‘ditch’ ...
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« Reply #138 on: October 12, 2025, 07:44:34 AM »
... ‘they’ were all(y/lie) looking for/4 some/suM. ‘form’ o’adVantaZege’ ?!

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Re: Notes towards a new anti-war 'epic' ...
« Reply #139 on: October 26, 2025, 11:00:59 AM »
... unifying EPICS were ‘reduced’ to the fragmented & frag-men-ting 'battle songs' of, eg,  ...
... the civil war in former Yugoslavia ...
... crude, kitsch, divorced from reality ...
(... and sung in howling voices ... with screaming musical accompaniment ...)
... eg: “Who is the liar who says Serbia’s small?
She’s fought three wars and won them all!”
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« Reply #140 on: October 29, 2025, 07:03:50 AM »
After (USA) Judge Clayton W. Horn, declaring/judging Allen Ginsberg’s HOWL to be NOT ‘lewd and obscene’: Life is not encased in one formula whereby everyone acts the same or conforms to a particular pattern. No two persons think alike. We are all made from the same mould, but in different patterns. Would there be any freedom of press or speech if one must reduce ... vocabulary to vapid innocuous euphemisms? Authors should be real in treating their subjects, and be allowed to express ideas in their own wordZ.
...
e.g.,A.G.(how-long how-lin’ out lines like?u2: ... ‘how long must i sing this song?{!}’
): “... a lost battalion of platonic conversationalists jumping down the stoops
off fire escapes off windowsills off ..
yacketayakking screaming vomiting whispering facts and memories
and anecdotes  and eyeball kicks and shocks of hospitals and
jails and wars,
whole intellects disgorged in total recall ...”

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« Reply #141 on: October 29, 2025, 11:51:28 AM »
'my' 'basic/bay-sick\$ick-B.heigh' problem was: 'they' were to/too/2(plus2?=1234...?)'sure'(sic.)o'them_selfs/selves ... p.st ....