I was never here to argue a position

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revolutionR
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I was never here to argue a position

Post by revolutionR » February 7th, 2017, 6:15 pm

the position argues itself
because in the end its only words

to the poet is said to be crazy
because he or she allows words
to speak for themselves

so if the poets sounds like they
are using words that were found
in some book, that is because
the best words are found there

sometimes talking to a tree is best
or standing on a street corner
talking to the world as it rolls by

or typing on a old typewriter
in the fifties, and a poem is born
out of the chaos of the modern

Bukowski did this, he had some
inside knowledge about the poetic state
of mind

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Re: I was never here to argue a position

Post by mnaz » February 9th, 2017, 3:58 am

We're not really that old, but we're old enough to realize that the old books had some good shit here and there, flinging stones and finding religion.

Bukowski was a brawler and a fucker, and so were a lot of the poets in language space-time...

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Re: I was never here to argue a position

Post by saw » February 9th, 2017, 11:51 am

cogent observations....like a fly on the wall eavesdropping on humans... 8)
If you do not change your direction
you may end up where you are heading

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Re: I was never here to argue a position

Post by revolutionR » February 9th, 2017, 5:57 pm

And the person that got me into really into being poet was a crazy acidhead surfer from L.A.
who was a bad ass on the waves, but he liked Kerouac.

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Re: I was never here to argue a position

Post by mnaz » February 10th, 2017, 2:16 am

Arguing is stupid.
I like to argue sometimes.
Therefore I'm kind of stupid.

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