[New-Poetry] Influential Poets, The Five

[Roger Day]

Notice list stops in 63 stop feels like a retrograde step stop who the
hell references eliot stop wasn't he a big queen stop or did he just
suck up to a queen stop nobody reads whitman stop they just quote the
first three lines stop williams wrote short poems stop plath was a
nobody rescued by suicide and a stupid husband stop at least he
doesn't mention pound stop that would be the kiss of death stop wtf
has this list-maker got against the academy? stop the finest, ah, um,
something stop doesn't seem to realise that um none of these pissants
went to teh academy and thats being generous stop will stop talking
like a telegram stop stop making lists stop stop stop they're stoopid

Rankings for the following:

Whiman: gay
Longfellow: genocide apologist
Pound: fascist
Cummings: couldn't find his capslock. Maybe too much ranking?
Williams: racist quack
Muddy Waters: fuck off, you're taking the piss right?

Sorry, I thought you said "ranking". We have to catch taxis, right?

Yours sincerely
Yuri Gagarin

On 1/1/07, Bob Grumman <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net> wrote:
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> > Why must there be "ranking"?
> >
> > - Jim
>
> Same reason there's ranking of food, say.  There's good food, so-so food,
> bad food, poison, and so on.  But if you have time, go ahead--ignore
> rankings and read every everything.
>
> --Bob
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