I'm a catalogue artist: I compete with Bob Dylan.

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The Poem Is A Catalogue

The Poem is a Catalogue

The Poem is a Catalogue
A Long List
Of all things seen and known
All one’s memories
All the times and loves one has had
The great story of many other lives.

The Poem is a Catalogue of a Continent
Of a new world seen through fresh eyes
It is the night of all Rabelais body- functions
And Whitman’s wanderings
And Borges literary labyrinths
Of Joyce’s English language styles
Oxen of the Sun.

The Poem is a Catalogue of all the people
One has known
Their names and faces and lives
All the relationships one has wanted and regretted
And loved and lived in and needed to be.

The Poem is a Catalogue
Of a few small possessions
One takes in one’s hand
And goes far away with
The books on the desert island
And the last few things a hospice can hold.

The Poem is a Catalogue
Of all one will never be
All one wanted and did not get
The empty half glass.

The Poem is the Catalogue God makes
Of everything there is.
God’s Poems
And we if we can be
Privileged to be
Occasional readers
Or not.

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I'm 47 years old. I couldn't compete with Beyonce. I'm not competing with anyone. I've already established myself as an artist. I've been in this business for 30 years. There's no reason for me to compete with anyone.

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It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all.

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Ill Compete

Ill be your promotional copy in this here number one band
Take your business beyond your furthest dreams sounds
Sounds great sounds really grand but wait
Let us hurry now time is catching up
And it looks like the music hall race has caught me up
But Ill compete (yeah yeah)
For all that its worth
Ill compete (with the rest of the pack)
For all that its worth
Ill compete (on the beat)
For all that its worth
Ill compete (with a full deck)
For all that Im worth
Ill be your popswop, come floppy disc, race you along the upper deck
Retrieve from you my with-held treasure,
Then watch you sink with you sunken rotting wreck,
Let us hurry now, time is running out,
Lets not forget time is money said the business man to his faithful scout.
But Ill compete (in the national press)
For all that its worth
Ill compete (with the back chat)
For all that its worth
Ill compete (on the beat)
For all that its worth
Ill compete (international)
For all that its worth
We must hurry now time is closing in
And Im getting no younger in fact
Im five years closer to my pension scheme
But Ill compete (yeah yeah)
For all that its worth
Ill compete (for the ratings)
For all that its worth
Ill compete (on the beat)
For all that its worth
Ill compete (with the rest of the pack)
For all that Im worth
C-c-c-c-compete
C-c-c-c-compete

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There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright.

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A Poets Hope

How we long to reach the shelf
Currently held by the poetic wealth
Shelley, Keates. Byron & Poe
Amongst those names we’d like to go

Love and description
A verbal prescription
Cured by Heaney, McGeogh & Cope
We try so hard & pray & hope.

Rhymes may come & we fear
We can never compete with Shakespeare
Yet with couplet descriptions, we can
Compete with Milligan & Betjeman

What is the magic potion
Leading to the fame of Alex Motion
How do the stanzas of Ted Hughes
Continue to sell and top the news

Suicide cannot be the path
Followed by Dylan & Plath
Whilst Hardy, Frost, Cummins and Kipling
Please the eye and set things rippling

So we continue to goad
The brain to produce an ode
That will sear the page
To last an age
Then gather dust upon the shelf

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Compete

Ok, this is a race
Compete. Ok, this is a dog-eat-dog world
Beware, be cautious, and be meek like a lamb,
Be vigilant like a fox, ok, this is a game
That all people play, be a participant,

But you do not have to compete with them
Compete with yourself, compete with excellence

Rage against the forces of evil
Go beyond your own limitations

But you do not have to bite anybody like a dog
And be rabid and fierce for no reason at all

But you do not have to be a fox in a lamb’s skin
Just be what you are in your true colors

But you do have to be shrewd and be a fraud,
Just play the game well, display your cards,

And play fair, and fight fair, and be a sport,
Just be honest and you will win, fair and square.

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Bob Dylan

If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.

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A Nude Artist

A Nude Artist


he says he is a nude artist
because he is naked when he paints

such nakedness has
nothing to do with being a nude artist

a naked artist who paints a cat or a chicken
is not a nude artist

there is no nude cat
thyere is no nude chicken

just paint a naked woman
and he will be called a nude artist

an artist is not an art
he must know that


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The Disaster Artist

Alison Brie, Zoey Deutch, James Franco, Lizzy Caplan, Zac Efron, Bryan Cranston, Dave Franco, Dylan Minnette, Kristen Bell, Seth Rogen

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The Disaster Artist [trailer 2]

Alison Brie, Zoey Deutch, James Franco, Lizzy Caplan, Zac Efron, Bryan Cranston, Dave Franco, Dylan Minnette, Kristen Bell, Seth Rogen

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Bradley Whitford

I want to see Bob Dylan do sketch comedy. I'm a huge Bob Dylan fan.

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Dylan talked copiously, then stopped. 'Somebody's boring me,' he said, 'I think it's me.'

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If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.

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When I go in to compete, whether it's gymnastics or anything else, I do my own thing. I compete with myself.

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I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history.

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The main reason he wanted to be a recording artist was because it gives you much more freedom in your writing. You only have to please the artist and the artist is you so you can be more daring and experimental.

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Maria Callas

You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there.

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Diary of a Nine Day Poet

Today (Day 1) I writed stuff I thort was pritty neet
I wanna do this poet shit, so that I can complete

Today (Day 2) I wroted tings I thawt was really neat
I one ta do these poem stuff just so I can compete

Today (Day 3) I wroted down some things I thawt was neat
I want to do some poet stuff just so I can compete

Today (Day 4) I wrote some things I thought was pretty neat
I want to do some poetry just so as I’ll compete

Today (Day 5) I’ve written things I think are fairly neat
I want to write poetically so that I can compete

Today (Day 6) I’m writing verse that is a poets treat
Expressing so poetically; you really can’t compete

Today (Day 7) One is just the best that one can be
I’m thinking other lesser folk should focus just on me

Today (Day 8) I give critique whilst looking down my nose
“One shouldn’t stand illiteracy – Does really one suppose”

Today (Day 9) Ones course is done, one writes on this and that
One’s still unread but now one wears a cloak and silk cravat

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Motivated By Ambition

Competition?
Of course I welcome it.
I awaken ready to compete.
In fact,
I may get no sleep...
In preparation.

If I can do better than I did,
After I did something done...
I am not pleased with myself!
I can not rest,
To remain idle like some.

Wanting to prove that what I do,
Is merely a personal test to become better.
And I can not sit wishing for this!
I am motivated by ambition.
And resisting it I can not dismiss!

Competition?
Of course I welcome it.
I awaken ready to compete.
In fact,
I may get no sleep...
In preparation.

Who do I compete with?
Myself!
I do not need anyone else...
To leave behind in exhaustion.
That has been tried.
And I became too satisfied.
Proving to others what I could do...
Provided no challenge at all!

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