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Old Mar 16, 2007, 03:02 am   #13 (permalink) (top)
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The appreciators of poetry cannot appreciate Anti-poetry, since they are in the straight jacket of correct English. To appreciate Anti-poetry one must abandon the notions of correct English...

Down with poetry. Rise up Anti-poetry.
He's not radical enough. We should also stop using alphabetic letters and numeric characters... we should be able to freely create our own writing systems and then smash even those... in fact, even writing at all is too conformist... we should return to spoken poetry like Homer... no even that's too conformist... only grunting, unintelligible grunting in coffee shops with no microphone... no even making sound is too conformist, we should all just be silent...

Perhaps you find this logic annoying, but it's all to prove a point.

This is the problem with revolutionaries. They always encourage us to smash the established order, but as soon as we start smashing their ideas they become reactionary.


"What truth endures beneath the flaming stream?"
-- A Volcano, Bartolome de Las Casas, Inferno de Marsaya, 1536
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