Rob Ayling writes:
"Thom the World poet, is an old mate of mine from way back in my history. Even pre-dating Voiceprint, when I was running "Otter Songs" and Tom's poetry tapes and guest appearences with Daevid Allen, Gilli Smyth, Mother Gong are well known and highly regarded. It just felt right to include a daily poem from Thom on our Gonzo blog and when I approached him to do so, he replied with in seconds!!! Thom is a great talent and just wants to spread poetry, light and positive energy across the globe. If we at Gonzo can help him do that - why not? why not indeed!!" (The wondrous poetpic is by Jack McCabe, who I hope forgives me for scribbling all over it with Photoshop)
MANUFACTURER OF SHADOWS
by the side of offshored industries
piecework
workers mend broken shadows
they
recycle romance novel Charles Dickens scripts
melodramas,novellas,soap
operas,Charles Chaplin's maquilladores
tearjerking
sentimental Stephen Spielberg soporifics/ sedation songs
country
AND western,jukebox tragedies,drunken marriages
all
kitchen sink grit ,gross and grime added to sell new scripts
TV
is full of it!TURN IT OFF! Watch the emptiness!
It
is as full of nothingness as banal lives.Suburbs do not sing!
They
complain via text or remote control.They store weapons for futures
that
will not happen like the past.New shadows wait to claim and to
reclaim-
names,addresses,pasts,personal
details-all hacked for surveillance universal
We
are all in this film.Darkness has no reason (to fear Light
Living
on the edge allows all the shadows to survive(inside us)
"Language
is a virus from outer space"(William Burroughs)
Hulu is the new movie theater
ReplyDeleteNews is "as happens" via
personal computing devices
iPhone updates
TV bigger, wider, flatter, louder
surround sound wizardry
Theaters are often too cold
sweaters on laps, chills on backs
sometimes sticky floors
and expensive popcorn crunches
underfoot, purchased at half of
and hours wages in large bin-cups
chatting audiences, sneaking peaks
at text messages or even chatting
on the phone mid movie
worse yet filming the movie
to view or sell later
Newspapers are not newsworthy
we already know it before it is printed
editorials are sometimes interesting
but then available on line anyhow
What happens when you've seen
all the plot lines, in various styles
languages, costumes, film or digital?
our own stories sometimes pale
in comparison we try to compete
with the fantastic world seen
on TV screens
More right after these messages!
The full story at 11!
Magic Jack
Partner & friend of Thom Worldpoet