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what's with these juicy bits? got talking to a cashier at a supermarket because i wanted cash-back rather than using the automated till, she was part of a book club, her grandchildren, something something, oh yeah, into tudor english, prope'h east ender but more into o romeo o romeo why art thou bits of slicing the butcher's expression, tudor english... 'so what do you do? finish work early? work in a slaughterhouse of mammon and his slot machines?' 'i've only just begun, i'm an adolf ****** of poets according to w.h. auden, i mean, wait wait, i can make a calypso's worth of sound with rhyme, and look ironically intelligent too! i have ~40 adamant readers elsewhere, yes,  had to look for a publisher on the continent.' you know, all that jazz & bass talk, when you're buying whiskey laconically day to day, and we both agreed: it's nice to leave an imprint on someone, somewhere else, far far away, rather than just an echoing footprint of a pacified stranger passing en route on a shopping spree; so don't up your game thinking writing is a mind game of ups and ups... it's a task like anyone else's, although it doesn't pay out bundles of Ferraris or ****** there ain't not glamour in it... you only get recognition in terms of the numbers doing it after you're dead... because it looks easy, because it looks like a granny in an armchair... what's that, 30 poems in and finito -              carpe diem hasta la vista baby? strap me rigid on that train, i'll pay with all my teeth being punched out to see where this is going; juicy bits my ***
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Mar 22, 2016
Mar 22, 2016 at 6:27 PM UTC
talking to a supermarket cashier, she’s 60!
what's with these juicy bits? got talking to a cashier at a supermarket because i wanted cash-back rather than using the automated till, she was part of a book club, her grandchildren, something something, oh yeah, into tudor english, prope'h east ender but more into o romeo o romeo why art thou bits of slicing the butcher's expression, tudor english... 'so what do you do? finish work early? work in a slaughterhouse of mammon and his slot machines?' 'i've only just begun, i'm an adolf ****** of poets according to w.h. auden, i mean, wait wait, i can make a calypso's worth of sound with rhyme, and look ironically intelligent too! i have ~40 adamant readers elsewhere, yes,  had to look for a publisher on the continent.' you know, all that jazz & bass talk, when you're buying whiskey laconically day to day, and we both agreed: it's nice to leave an imprint on someone, somewhere else, far far away, rather than just an echoing footprint of a pacified stranger passing en route on a shopping spree; so don't up your game thinking writing is a mind game of ups and ups... it's a task like anyone else's, although it doesn't pay out bundles of Ferraris or ****** there ain't not glamour in it... you only get recognition in terms of the numbers doing it after you're dead... because it looks easy, because it looks like a granny in an armchair... what's that, 30 poems in and finito -              carpe diem hasta la vista baby? strap me rigid on that train, i'll pay with all my teeth being punched out to see where this is going; juicy bits my ***
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Mar 22, 2016 at 6:27 PM UTC
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