brittlejacks In reply to ersatz-moon [2013-10-01 14:13:42 +0000 UTC]

That makes two of us. I like to drink wine when cleaning my room; this is a critical statement of my existential beliefs.

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ersatz-moon In reply to brittlejacks [2013-10-01 16:46:06 +0000 UTC]

i fucking LOVE ginsberg.

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brittlejacks In reply to ersatz-moon [2013-10-02 23:29:02 +0000 UTC]

& ee cummings - well at least I do. Lately R. Browning too.

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ersatz-moon In reply to brittlejacks [2013-10-03 13:53:45 +0000 UTC]

wonderful shit. I've lately been dreaming about whitman. maybe i'm too particularized to one style. greek epic poetry is both beautiful and enthralling, but do not speak to me as much as contemporary poets. 

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brittlejacks In reply to ersatz-moon [2013-11-02 02:17:37 +0000 UTC]

There's nothing wrong with adoring one style while admiring the rest. I find the Greeks fascinating but lacking the intensity of the Norse, I've a big book of sagas, as well as numerous translations of Beowulf.

Bruce Dawe is an often unheralded Australian poet, probably because all his poems are so obviously Australian, they might not translate into foreign interpretations. 

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ersatz-moon In reply to brittlejacks [2014-01-01 15:35:43 +0000 UTC]

how old are you? i must focus my life on the study of poets

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brittlejacks In reply to ersatz-moon [2014-01-06 11:14:21 +0000 UTC]

22, studying poets and poetry will give all the more value to everything. But I've always been bored by a lot of poets (and loved just as many), and read a lot of literature that people describe as "they'd-have-made-a-better-poet-than-novelist" because they seem to know more about poetry than I do.

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ersatz-moon In reply to brittlejacks [2014-01-11 16:03:16 +0000 UTC]

what are some examples? 

i haven't read much poetry. as in,not published collections. i read a lot of shit online and contemporary poets on PoetryFoundation etc. 

some poets i can't do without: whitman, c.d wright. 

what do you think of these things: 

-society

-cats 

-women 

-our human condition 

and some questions: 

-are you happy in life? what makes you happy?

-do you have many friends? 

-what were teenage years like?

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brittlejacks In reply to ersatz-moon [2014-01-21 14:10:41 +0000 UTC]

I don't really do existence well, so I find committing to long but interesting responses hard. actually i'm doing a great act of a collapsing period of life at the moment, hopefully i'll reverse it.

the greatest poetless poets i've encountered are probably patrick white and tim winton. poets i couldn't exist without ee cummings, HD, hughes, pam brown, ken bolton, mark treddinick... but then again i love reading unintended classics and dismantling the fucking structures of literature through simple writing - even in canberra, australia, in 105F heat there's one twit reading a new yorker when he gets infrequently paid

you really ask essay level questions. who can really discuss whether they are happy in a sentence? ... actually happy people can do that. i'm not an unhappy person, i'm an over-thought person. busying myself with the mundanities of work or study and the surprising people with a forty minute discussion of the meaning of being a fucking twenty-something living in an economy quickly passing its dirt-induced sell-by date ... my experience of the states made me so much more terrified to be a twenty-something Australian, and truly see the antediluvian shitfest which is my continent's excuse for culture. America is the dirty epicentre of life, Australia the point where birth and death overlap into a seamless singularity. america will open your eyes and australia will close them. australia is more beautiful america more complete and more engaging. australia literally burns for three months a year and we all think this is normal - so there's an unintended view of the postcolonial experience

wait so happiness... yeah i'm happy. happier than i have been. less happy than i could be. i take small moments and see a stupid amount of happiness. i saw a baseball game for the first time, here in canberra, it was amazing. and reminded me of so many happy thoughts. i'm emotionally engaged in my existence, not unhappy. i choose to know myself, rather than medicate; i made that decision awhile ago, and it shouldn't be too over dramatic to mention

i fluked teenagerism. my shit, outback high school involved teachers who humoured me, and engaged in my curiosity. i also made a bestfriend who was entirely interested in the world we both saw, and we're still best mates. i was an overly serious teenager who never understood why i bothered with being politically engaged and as a current early twenty something see giving a fuck as the best fuck to give. i'm less publicly outspoken, but more radicalised... i used to think marxist thinkers had a point, now i think marxist thinkers missed the point. teenagerism was about curiosity and life still is

women are people. like, i find this an off question society asks me. i see women as human beings. sounds simplistic. being straight, i'm attracted to women, but i can't feel strongly about any woman i'm not intimidated by on a human to human basis. i am impressed by people who have traits i do not possess 

i have lots of friends. how many friends do people have? I have a long term best mate, a bestfriend who lived in share housing with me for a year and i see when i can, a long term female bestfriend who i met and befriended before we learnt our mothers had been bestfriends in the early 1980s. i have friends from place to place. i don't have many friends who i can bore like this though. i try to be more concise:

'Adulthood is knowing when to be immature.'

i'm not a cat person. but if cats like me then why should i judge?

society and the human condition is rotting under the disproportionate strain of hypercapitalism and the weighty wallets of business-people. sounds like simple socialism, but it's true. there is too much money and too many fucktards... a cull would be appropriate, either one or the other, it would be just as effective. society and the human condition would benefit from a lessening of violence. why on fucking earth should people be so violent? someone needs to address masculinity as well; not in some anti-feminine way, but to address the complete dearth of human beings with penises who actually understand equality, community, and empathy...

we should all shut up, build communities, reject the hollowmen, and fucking exist

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brittlejacks In reply to missingnumbers [2013-06-13 14:21:23 +0000 UTC]

My pleasure.

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brittlejacks In reply to archelyxs [2012-05-26 13:36:44 +0000 UTC]

I've been very quiet. This (and Thursday, briefly) is the first time I've logged on since, probably... early March? Had a couple of rough months at University, realised they were because I was putting myself into too much of college life (too much organising events, sitting on committees, arguing with incompetent people, and dealing with other people's problems), so I came home this weekend and have actually written a poem for the first time since January.

How are you? I see you've become quiet the centre of skill and popularity!

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archelyxs In reply to brittlejacks [2012-05-30 21:03:36 +0000 UTC]

I feel ya. I sort of did the same thing second semester. It became so overwhelmingly stressful. I almost can't believe it's over.

Hahaha I try, I try sometimes. I haven't written a poem in a while as well- usually I start to go crazy if it's a little over a week, but I don't really know where my mind is right now. I'm working on a piece right now, and it's the first since early May.

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brittlejacks In reply to LucyJOrchard [2012-01-23 05:44:24 +0000 UTC]

My pleasure.

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brittlejacks In reply to eshyo [2012-01-15 03:50:25 +0000 UTC]

My pleasure.

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brittlejacks In reply to archelyxs [2012-01-09 09:42:54 +0000 UTC]

My pleasure, enjoy your afternoon.

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brittlejacks In reply to BeautifulBizarreMag [2012-01-09 09:41:36 +0000 UTC]

My pleasure

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brittlejacks In reply to Filterkaffee [2012-01-09 05:58:26 +0000 UTC]

My pleasure.

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brittlejacks In reply to 22thorn [2012-01-06 07:48:15 +0000 UTC]

My pleasure.

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brittlejacks In reply to caska1979 [2012-01-06 07:48:12 +0000 UTC]

My pleasure.

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brittlejacks In reply to let--me--out [2012-01-02 12:30:36 +0000 UTC]

My pleasure.

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brittlejacks In reply to archelyxs [2012-01-02 12:30:51 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much!

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brittlejacks In reply to KtheCard [2012-01-02 12:52:22 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much, that's an amazing compliment.

I just try my best, and am so happy that it pleases you, or anyone else. And am always humbled to hear that people sometimes do.

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brittlejacks In reply to Tsukiiyo [2012-01-02 12:33:45 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much for the compliment and the offer, but I'll unfortunately have to decline.

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Tsukiiyo In reply to brittlejacks [2012-01-02 16:09:08 +0000 UTC]

No problem ♥

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brittlejacks In reply to archelyxs [2011-12-28 12:07:23 +0000 UTC]

My pleasure.

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brittlejacks In reply to pinxi-tinxi [2011-12-27 09:02:22 +0000 UTC]

My pleasure.

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brittlejacks In reply to archelyxs [2011-11-06 11:35:50 +0000 UTC]

My pleasure.

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brittlejacks In reply to wyldhoney [2011-09-21 02:46:55 +0000 UTC]

Thankyou very much, sorry it has taken me so long to thank you!

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wyldhoney In reply to brittlejacks [2011-09-21 04:02:56 +0000 UTC]

No problem, and you're welcome.

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