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

[Phil Talbot]

The never ending (seeming) winter rain
Does Eternal Moisture give.
These ‘rules’ nourish and maintain
All Creatures that on Earth do Live ...

[Phil Talbot]

No Worldly Things
Can Continuance have
Unless LOVE brings
The Cause the First/1st Essence gave ...

[Phil Talbot]

... 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’ ...

[Phil Talbot]

... ‘they’ were all(y/lie) looking for/4 some/suM. ‘form’ o’adVantaZege’ ?!

[Phil Talbot]

... 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!”
...

[Phil Talbot]

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 ...”

[Phil Talbot]

'my' 'basic/bay-sick\$ick-B.heigh' problem was: 'they' were to/too/2(plus2?=1234...?)'sure'(sic.)o'them_selfs/selves ... p.st ....

[Phil Talbot]

... So having said, a while he stood, expecting
their Universal Shout and High Applause
to Phil/Fill(fall)his ears, when (but) contrary he hears
on all sides
from innumerable U.N.versal tongues
a 'dismal' universal 'HIss' (ba!shucks!?) ...

[Phil Talbot]

Plaigurism?/Quotation?/Recyclin’?/...etc ...

Living in a (tick) B.O.x: ‘.... i’m Built 4 “strength” & made ma(I)d with 100% recycled “content” ...’

Mad “king” ‘sa sa sa(d) sa(yingtong) by the C.see.sea(?):

‘No, no, no, no! Come, let’s away to prison.
We two alone will sing like birds i’ the cage:
When thou dost ask me blessing, I’ll kneel down.
And ask of thee forgiveness: so we’ll live,
And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh
At gilded butterflies, and hear the poor rogues
Talk of court news; and we’ll talk with them too, —
Who loses and who wins; who’s in, who’s out: —
And take upon us the mystery of things,
As if we were God’s spies: and we’ll wear out,
In a wall’d prison, packs and sects of great ones,
That ebb and flow by th’ moon.’

[Phil Talbot]

... it was Apollo (the ‘god’ - sic.) who(m) seasoned tales of arms and (hi.hohoho)men with ‘peppar/pre-prepared’ dust ‘excuZes’ ...

[Phil Talbot]

It was Apollo who started it ...
Blame it on the gods/God ...
Who splash the Earth with pain-drenched blood(s) ...
And then (‘clean souls’) wash it away with floods ....

But now, god(‘s)-forsaken ...
We are left to ‘CHANCE’ ...
& wave goodbye 2 our/war (atomicA.L.) particles ...
(And ‘humanity’ can escape its ‘responsibilities’...) ...