From Little Acorns.

The Poet · August 2004

I posted some poems and the following message on the forums of my favourite bands and solo artists:

"I believe it takes one person to start a revolution and millions for that revolution to flourish. If you have faith in me and wish to join me in artistic endeavours, feel free to provide your first name and e-mail address"

This morning, I'm pleased to announce that two hundred people have volunteered their first names and e-mail addresses thus far. The reason I've returned is due to not receiving any responses from this particular forum, as I'd like to clarify certain points which might've influenced such apathy:

* This is a non-commercial, non-violent, completely legal venture.

* I'm just a music fan like yourself and have no wish to "spam" anybody with porn or anything else.

* I'm not after your money, and participation would involve very little of your time and effort; a matter of minutes.

Ideally, I’d like to increase the tally of those interested and enthusiastic to two hundred and fifty prior to posting the first e-mail. If you didn't like my poetry, then fair enough. If you did appreciate my poetry, and feel a sense of opportunity in these words, then this is your chance to contribute towards something revolutionary.

Thanks,

The Poet

ISN · August 2004

I want to contribute towards something revolutionary Chairman Mao.....my name is Catherine and my email address is plasticmarauders@yahoo.com....this is so exciting.....what are you going to do.....I don't have faith in you.....but I'm intrigued

The Poet · August 2004

Originally posted by ISN
I want to contribute towards something revolutionary Chairman Mao.....my name is Catherine and my email address is plasticmarauders@yahoo.com....this is so exciting.....what are you going to do.....I don't have faith in you.....but I'm intrigued

Thankyou, Catherine. I don't mean faith as in religious faith, as some have assumed. I mean faith as in having faith in someone to achieve something. Anyhow, I'll gladly keep you informed

FinsburyParkCarrots · August 2004

Did Lord Byron change the world?

ISN · August 2004

he changed my world.....yes, he changed the wrold....definitely....we wouldn't have Frankenstein.....and I just watched Van Helsing the other day.....hehehehehehe.....I tried reading Don Juan in Spanish.....Byron.....there's a place in Australia called Byron Bay......bet Lord Byron would be up there surfing with the rest of them.....just rambling now

FinsburyParkCarrots · August 2004

There's a place in Australia called Wagga Wagga too, not that any wag changed the world.

ISN · August 2004

Spike Milligan's Mum lived in a place called wagga wagga....or something....now they've got a museum dedicated to him.....Spike Milligan changed the wrold.....I luv Spike Milligan

FinsburyParkCarrots · August 2004

I agree, dear old Spike changed the world. "On the ning nang nong where the cows go bong and the monkeys jibberjibberjoob..." or something like that. Yes, he was a revolutionary.

FinsburyParkCarrots · August 2004

Originally posted by ISN
he changed my world.....yes, he changed the wrold....definitely....we wouldn't have Frankenstein.....and I just watched Van Helsing the other day

Van Helsing was in Dracula!

Anyway, back to the issue at hand. So, The Poet, sell this proposition to me, though this is non-commercial of course. You want people to give you their email addresses. Then what? You send them your poetry, and you change the world?
Sounds like a harmless enough hobby. Good luck.

The Poet · August 2004

Originally posted by FinsburyParkCarrots
Van Helsing was in Dracula!

Anyway, back to the issue at hand. So, The Poet, sell this proposition to me, though this is non-commercial of course. You want people to give you their email addresses. Then what? You send them your poetry, and you change the world?
Sounds like a harmless enough hobby. Good luck.

I'll send six poems in the initial e-mail, as the majority of people volunteering their e-mail addresses have expressed an appreciation for my poetry. However, the revolution of which I speak isn't specifically poetic. It encompasses all artistry. I see a lot of artistic injustice, and intend to address such issues on an international scale. Of course, I can't do this alone. That's about all I can say at this point, I'm afraid

FinsburyParkCarrots · August 2004

"Artistic injustice"? Injudicious art? Who legislates that?

ISN · August 2004

me

ISN · August 2004

There are many diseases
That strike people's kneeses,
Scorflufus! is one by name
It comes from the East
Packed in bladders of yeast
So the Chinese (heehehheeheheh) must take half the blame.

There's a case in the files
Of Sir Barrington-Pyles
While hunting a fox one day
Shot up in the air
And remained hanging there!
While the hairs on his socks turned grey!

Aye! Scorflufus had struck!
At man, beast and duck.
And the knees of the wrold went Bong!
Some knees went Ping!
Other knees turned to string
From Balham to old Hong Kong.

Should you hold your life dear,
Then the remedy's clear,
If you're offered some yeast - don't eat it!
Turn the offer down flat -
Don your travelling hat -
Put an egg in yuor boot - and beat it!

Spike Milligan - Scorflufus - By a well-known National Health Victim No. 3908631

FinsburyParkCarrots · August 2004

In that case I'll join too.

ISN · August 2004

ta, my man

suede · August 2004

i could swear that this exact post was made about two months ago. at least if you're gonna fall for something, fall for thinking you're getting a free ipod

good luck, kids!

FinsburyParkCarrots · August 2004

I can just see Sir Philip Sidney in a poet's retreat
having invented the word "Conversation"
suffering the visionary in the loin cloth and the thousandyard stare

I can just see Shakespeare
giving up his Avon speculations, his handy bits of real estate
and his love of merlot and pickled herrings
to worship some insufferable dullard with a Koresh twitch
going all bhagwan rashneesh on the only cushion in the tent

I really can see so clearly Wordsworth giving up his solitary walks
to talk to a bunch of eejits about how great it is being a bunch of eejits
and is that Philip Larkin I see unclipping those bicycle clips from his trousers
and loosening his beads
to join the teepee? To quote the great man himself, "Is it feck"?

But that is Yeats I see going into the poet's commune?
Yes,
yes,
it is,
it is,
yes.

After all, he joined the fascists, the buffoon.

ISN · August 2004

so did Ezra....and what's good enough for Ezra is good enough for me.....including the loony bin

don't you two gang up on me again tonight

The Poet · August 2004

Shelley, Keats, and Byron, emoting in their sensual environs, were, hardly, sexual sirens, 'til the fields were filled with pylons.

Shakespeare, Wordsworth, and Tennyson, expressing their sensual tensions; they scarcely received a mention, prior to Edison's sound inventions.

ISN · August 2004

I'm drowning......

it's silly that I should remember I'm in love
right now
it's so inconvenient
he was young
and he's gone
why should a song
by ryan adams
send me into tailspins
his name was john
he said he was dead
and seeing as I was mad
that didn't seem strange
(only a little bit)

I left him in Texas
he left me in Spain
he didn't want to go to Africa
because of diseases and wars....
he wanted a proper thanksgiving
(Gonzalo was so kind)
I bade him goodbye at the airport
and drank a quick G
I miss my little Johnny, Johnnyappleseade
my heart.....won't recover.....
I can't recover
I'm drowning
I'm dowsing the internet for him
he's dead.....and fed up
but I'm desperate for him.....
he's very short!!!!!!

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