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)
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA
Door to door salesmen, pleasant and witty
entertained
housewives and working husbands in the 50's and 60's
attempting
to sell volumes of gold lined tomes
to
sit on shelves of homes and look so serious(yet rarely read!
This worked well
until our Internet became accessible
and
GOODWILL became a de facto repository of encyclopaedias
World
shrank into a box-soon to be hand held
All
the world in a GOOGLE /search engines
mapping
every space/data mining every subject in time
Bye
bye books!Hello Arthur Miller's"Death Of A Salesman"!
Those
suit wearing shoe leather pounding door knocking visitors gone-
replaced
by a screen and anonymous content.No going back!
Days
of our lives now nanosecond text.Tweet that!
Speed
has information overloaded us, dumping jobs in the trash
where
piles of discarded hardcover poetry books wait to be rediscovered..
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