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Portrait of the artist as [insert adjective] (Free verse) by Nicholas Jones I am over-educated post-Marxist
socialist cultural materialist
intellectually dishonest Christian
pre-apocalyptic middle class trade unionist
militant indie snob artistic false modernist
polite confused homosexual.
I am occasional insomniac republican defensive
unsociable misanthropic solipsistic neo-Kantian
noisecore fan.
Whimsical when the world is drowning. I am unliked
and un-likeable, questioning enquiring arrogant
never satisfied emotional illiterate. I am irrelevant
outmoded useless untalented book reading bore.
Accurate self-definition = self-awareness = self-loathing
if you've any fucking decency. I don't even hate myself properly.
Up the ladder:
Flying things
Down the ladder:
Respiration for a Lack of Dizzyness
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Posted: May 16, 2007 2:27 PM PDT; Last modified: May 16, 2007 2:27 PM PDTWeighted score: 5.1490035 Overall Rank: 5284 Comments:
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Skamper @ 202.6.130.219
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17-May-07/1:31 AM
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Charming self portrait.
good idea but this could be a lot more concise.
Turn this into a concrete silhouette poeme and it will be brilliant.
Everyone's a closet neo-Kantian even if they won't admit it.
Well, it's just meant as a list of adjectives, language stripped of embellishment. Perhaps that makes it anti-poetry. Also I've been listening to an album by Malcolm Middleton (who used to be in Arab Strap) which is full of savage self-loathing.
By the way, and in case anybody has got the wrong idea, in a British context republican means to be in favour of abolishing the monarchy, not to be a supporter of the neo-conservative fuckwits currently in control of the White House. 138 view(s)
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