[New-Poetry] Galactic antiPoetry halfMonth

[Anny Ballardini]

very similar to the artists I have known, still repeating and reaping things
created eons ago.

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 4:24 PM, David Graham <grahamd at ripon.edu> wrote:

> *poetry readings*
>
>
> poetry readings have to be some of the saddest
> damned things ever,
> the gathering of the clansmen and clanladies,
> week after week, month after month, year
> after year,
> getting old together,
> reading on to tiny gatherings,
> still hoping their genius will be
> discovered,
> making tapes together, discs together,
> sweating for applause
> they read basically to and for
> each other,
> they can't find a New York publisher
> or one
> within miles,
> but they read on and on
> in the poetry holes of America,
> never daunted,
> never considering the possibility that
> their talent might be
> thin, almost invisible,
> they read on and on
> before their mothers, their sisters, their husbands,
> their wives, their friends, the other poets
> and the handful of idiots who have wandered
> in
> from nowhere.
>
> I am ashamed for them,
> I am ashamed that they have to bolster each other,
> I am ashamed for their lisping egos,
> their lack of guts.
>
> if these are our creators,
> please, please give me something else:
>
> a drunken plumber at a bowling alley,
> a prelim boy in a four rounder,
> a jock guiding his horse through along the
> rail,
> a bartender on last call,
> a waitress pouring me a coffee,
> a drunk sleeping in a deserted doorway,
> a dog munching a dry bone,
> an elephant's fart in a circus tent,
> a 6 p.m. freeway crush,
> the mailman telling a dirty joke
>
> anything
> anything
> but
> these.
>
> -- Charles Bukowski from *Bone Palace Ballet* (Black Sparrow Press).
>
>
>
>
>
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>
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>
> On May 18, 2009, at 9:06 AM, jforjames at aol.com wrote:
>
> Day 2:
>
> I know a fellow who reads modern poetry only in the john.
>
> —Charles Simic, The Monster Loves His Labyrinth: Notebooks (Ausable Press,
> 2008)
>
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Anny Ballardini
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I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing
star!
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