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response to http://yorgosloizos.tumblr.com/spatial-decadence-11 for http://www.facebook.com/yorgos.loizos
this poem has to be about television
roy liechtenstein told me that before
i’d even defined my ‘high school days’
with the arthritis we call 1950s america
if you were to ask me about the subject
today though i’d quote shows such as
twin peaks dexter and black books and
perhaps imagine watching them with a
girlfriend and bottle of red wine let
me take you upstairs and show you some
thing you’ll never have seen before
(basic information: gender = male)
i’ll tell you what i’ve always been much
more into films though more specifically
american films that feed off of french
new waves films that feed off of american
films with a little bit of the abject
though just to show you i sympathise let
me take you upstairs and show you some
thing you’ll never have seen before
(add as friend? lives in london, uk)
it’s hard to say what kind of girls i
like but i guarantee that they’ll like
to snuggle up after and read all the
books that pete doherty likes and if this
poem seems to be regressing into some 90s
brit pop hit i can assure you it’s not it
was always going to be some sort of sonic
youth drawl couldn’t you tell from the
first line imagine listening to pearl
jam during oh i oh i’m still alive let
me take you upstairs and show you some
thing you’ll never have seen before
(add as friend? from seattle, washington)
thinking about it some more i’ve realised
this poem is actually all about materiality
that explains all the desperate marrying
of fin-de-siecle and the red scare who’d
have thought i’d be sitting here in 2011
talking about the listlessness of modernism
like the way gingerbread is just fantastic
but goes a bit soggy and rotten when old
like that stuff you always see sellotaped
up in supermarkets anyway girl let me just
take you upstairs and show you something
you’ll never have seen before i’ve almost
told you everything about myself and what
are your views on the legacy of henry ford
(information withheld)