Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

It could have been an accident
Beaten black and blue by old habits
A deadbeat with marvelous potential
An urban wordsmith, scratch poet
Lost in a life of subtle performance
As a blackballed artist

who are you?...my biographer?

pick a number!

*lol*

the square root of god - egads! a mis shapen tuber?

enjoyed the "i" of it

YOW!!! I love this site. Went to your "i" thing, stilltrucking; man. That was pretty good. And westcoast, I like this poem. I agree w/ LR; feels like biography to me.

"scratch poet" "blackballed artist" I like this phases in particular from this poem...seems like there is a story behind it?

years ago i read a piece about a poet whose creative and personal life went to hell in hand basket, a tragedy. the poem flowed from it. don't recall his name. i found it quite sad. so yes, it is biographical.

~west

booj-wah frauds and scenesters who-wannabe-TSELiot luv poesy: . Real scribes do prose

*lol*

..wannabe-TSEliot luv poesy..

Is that a dark hunch?

More of a proposition, even a verifiable one, than hunch. I respect authentic poets. As Ez Pound asserted, however, the authentic poet knows a lot--two or three languages, and all the requisite Kultural stuff. These days "poet" includes about any dweeb (or dweebette) who shows up to talent nite at Tony's pizzeria and bleats out "I really f-n hate Bush". It's a noble's sport really: more like Bach than bobby dylan.

what a load. prove to me that historically most of the known great poets were fluent in several languages?

where is your poem? i liked it. please repost so that we can observe, appreciate and critique your awe-inspiring magnificence.

thanking you in advance

~westcoast

Poet I am not. On occasion I scribble parodies of poesy. In regards to language skills of poets , ah suggest you peruse some of Pound's literary essays. Even most of the "beats" were fairly well read in french, as well as English. Pound and Eliot knew classical latin as well as other romantic tongues, Deutsch. The typical renaissance scribe--say like Shakespeare or Herrick---knew Latin, greek, italian, etc. Anglo-ish is not really even a official language, arguably. It's from plattdeutsch (sort of flatlander, farmer speak) with lots of loan words from latin and old frankish. Jus sayin'. We wuz robbed.

I read Bukowski in French in Quebec City, was the first time I really understood what he was saying. Resulted in a fetish. I'm anglo.

~westie