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if you spot any spelling mistakes, it's due to the html. first match, kick-off 12.30, woke at eleven, door-knock hangover, whole body, not the amateurish headache off the binge on a friday disco, sun shining, god almighty sun shining - eyes like a vampire's, itch upon itch from the sunlight,                                           turn it off! turn it off! turn it off! placed the 5 quid bets on three forms, spotted all the metaphysical ****** addicts of anger in the bookie's  shop, felt odd watching them addicted to the futility of the monetary system. went back home, overcast came and my eyes were very much pleased, took to drinking the best bet odds i could ever get, 8-9 of a bottle of whiskey, started reading articles about david bowie, and realised, artist? maybe. entertainer? predictably yes. the comparison? entertainers attract critics, artists don't - entertainers attract idol worshippers centre stage, cult gimmicks, artists pulverise those heathens with fear, remorse, repulsion, a one-man show attracts one-man passers-by; where art flows freely criticism does not follow, where are flows freely criticism does not follow, why would it? giving the majority of people treat art in a debasing way, keeping it a pastime, a hobby, a way to unwind, a way to test their "creativity," to be less boring than the average paper-pusher pencil-sharpener suit... look, you chose the ease life, deal with it! i don't want your creative crap in my mailbox; the last thing i want is a person with roughly 20 poems to their name, and that lovely phraseology of: i love languge... i'm sure you do, esp. telling me to be conscious of metaphors and other techniques, and a vocabulary so rigid that i'd get more fancy from the range of onomatopoeias not noted from the animal kingdom... go on... write the adequate lion's roar.
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Jan 23, 2016
Jan 23, 2016 at 8:37 AM UTC
lion's roar at the bookies
if you spot any spelling mistakes, it's due to the html. first match, kick-off 12.30, woke at eleven, door-knock hangover, whole body, not the amateurish headache off the binge on a friday disco, sun shining, god almighty sun shining - eyes like a vampire's, itch upon itch from the sunlight,                                           turn it off! turn it off! turn it off! placed the 5 quid bets on three forms, spotted all the metaphysical ****** addicts of anger in the bookie's  shop, felt odd watching them addicted to the futility of the monetary system. went back home, overcast came and my eyes were very much pleased, took to drinking the best bet odds i could ever get, 8-9 of a bottle of whiskey, started reading articles about david bowie, and realised, artist? maybe. entertainer? predictably yes. the comparison? entertainers attract critics, artists don't - entertainers attract idol worshippers centre stage, cult gimmicks, artists pulverise those heathens with fear, remorse, repulsion, a one-man show attracts one-man passers-by; where art flows freely criticism does not follow, where are flows freely criticism does not follow, why would it? giving the majority of people treat art in a debasing way, keeping it a pastime, a hobby, a way to unwind, a way to test their "creativity," to be less boring than the average paper-pusher pencil-sharpener suit... look, you chose the ease life, deal with it! i don't want your creative crap in my mailbox; the last thing i want is a person with roughly 20 poems to their name, and that lovely phraseology of: i love languge... i'm sure you do, esp. telling me to be conscious of metaphors and other techniques, and a vocabulary so rigid that i'd get more fancy from the range of onomatopoeias not noted from the animal kingdom... go on... write the adequate lion's roar.
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Jan 23, 2016
Jan 23, 2016 at 8:37 AM UTC
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