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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459751" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Philanderin' and phillarkin': How to be a Modern Poet We All Love</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Just two things. Write so that we can<br>understand you while lurching in public transport<br>book in hand and understand you because<br>you’re like us but imaginative and funny with it<br>and make us think; but no fancy stuff: <br>we want to be sure you’ve been there, <br>done it, got it down on paper<br>and that it’s the same there as we’ve been; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and the other thing but it’s not essential: <br>the better you write, the more we are reassured<br>by a colourful life well OK scandalous: <br>a rich and very varied sex life would be good: <br>a day with Paris, a week with Princess X<br>then three weeks with some anonymous scrubber<br>(no gender discrimination here by the way) <br>would play well. And if 50% of your liaisons<br>refused to talk (e.g. it was brief but profound) <br>we could read avidly and then hate the other 50% who told all..<br>but that doesn’t mean that a vigorous sex life<br>permits you to say all women are hoes or<br>call your very private wife ma bitch..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and drink to excess of course, mixing your drinks and company: <br>though remember, dying young is no longer<br>a career move in these times<br>of trivial pursuits and careless raptures; <br>as for drugs, OK if you must<br>in which case a ho-hum public attitude from you<br>indicating you don’t either approve or disapprove<br>(suggesting that the relationship between chemicals<br>and creativity is too subtle for the tabloid headlines) <br>would be better than some extreme stance.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So, Ruth, Derek, and that abstemious Hindu guy –<br>tell your idiot supporters that more scandal, not less<br>would well befit a poet who’s to stand for all of us<br>as Poet Laureate, Prof of Po, Director o fArts Council Poetry; <br>to assure us that Dionysius is still alive and well and living<br>somewhere beyond sin and writing great poetry.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">*Come to think of it, a rumour that Ruth and Derek<br>once had a stormy relationship with mutual recriminations<br>could make this one run and run. <br>Now that’s what we expect of poets – a bit of phillarkin’ on the side..</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q>
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