This is a response to a blog post by Ben Carr, a normally relatively sane and engaging person, which you can find here. In it, he outlines how the community built around Youtube is falling apart now that certain people are treating it as serious business to, y’know, make a living out of what they [...]
You go far into the future. Many thousands of years into the future. You find yourself among a race of humanoid creatures not overly dissimilar to how we are today, who live in a world barren of obvious habitations and urban areas. A world which stretches off into the distance completely devoid of any signs [...]
Guys, I’m sick of this. The world of art and artists has become so slovenly, amorphous and bloated that while the very tip of it has crawled and slimed its way up onto a pedestal, it’s left a wide trail of itself lying confused on the stairway, and most of it is immobile, upside-down, on [...]
Yeah, that’ll do.
Strange To think that poetry Like you or I Has not been here forever. Verse seems timeless Such is time lodged deep Into its frame Into its shape. But There was that one Time when somebody Put pen to paper Wrote the words; and Thought to pause Part-way across the paper.
Up on the pebble riviera Where waves lick concrete, Living, cool Breezes swift in clear blue Through open space And air. Where brushed blocks, bruised Live slowly And the mood turns into itself, Each night and every morning. Up on the pebble riviera, Great stegosaurus stumbling crunches rare But loud within the crashing of the [...]
Dull iron, grit And power in the wires, Laying tread with flash tanks And flecked floors with spit To fuck a greasy axe-wound Readily And improbably certain, He plays her In the only way he knows, Certain, ground and dusty; Through her and overcompensating In the dark of all-night And when the lights shine on, [...]
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