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Andrew M Bell Feb 2015
It is an ancient Poet
and he stoppeth me.
“Beware of poetry, my son,
She’s a gold digger.
She’ll chew you up and spit you out,
leave you penniless and lying in a gutter,
drunk on absinthe,
while the rich novelists and scriptwriters
step over you, laughing.”

“Hold off! unhand me, greybeard loon!”
Unheeding, I slunk off to my garret
to compose a villanelle,
heavily derivative of Dylan Thomas.
  
I only wanted to get girls,
but before I knew it
I was roaming with the Romantics,
bopping with the Beats
and cruising with the Classicists.
Popping some Pope, shooting some Stevie Smith
or hitting up Heaney,
I was hopelessly addicted.
And I never did get the girl.
Copyright Andrew M. Bell
Johnny Noiπ Nov 2018
The *** of a *****: "The beginnings of all things
are small. (Latin: Omnium enim reim principal)"
- Cicero [ipsum no lorem]

And the movement along the pipe is sweet;
Sweet, what are you doing in the near future?
What is the boycott for a purchase with salt?
Cell phone soda of the Jewish daughter of her garden.
Leave it alone? We must express the ***** of the dogs,
Who are the iron and yoga runners? Or some other |||
target that Results in you Going barefoot
and bare-***, the dog's ***** seeping to the mattress ...
How big is soccer by choice? Treasure of war?
In the corner? They have a clinic for shade;
The Scripture says, the song in a moment, was
Eliminated 'Some' or images of fire that will.
of our lives confused about the seriousness |||
of the problems; He played a Japanese difficulty.
Bright Eyes  double wide; The museum ends in "500".
for the ***** glory of glory as a living room
and Dr. Einstein, however, Gold: || And women
and musicians 1, where only one girlfriend
is now a fat ***!    And a wall of the teeth,
or it's already there and violated,   or is it often wrong?
What is your relationship with you;
and ur Proposition has defined this section
of the club of your murderers really, I,
genealogy for example, you only have to show
it I have taught; I have enough Play - It is |||
waiting for publication or life...
They have no way of doing this |||
with this money. The stress is that "there was no |||
show" And the jaw, or more or maybe a great one.
Name and a species of its seed. The summer
of the young classicists. Pianist; Now it is used
as a system;   |Two is the difference in this cost
provided? There is something else
in my relationship In this sense, the green color
is cut off. The task must be complicated;
Who could not || ||| This is due to Thinkness;
At first, of her smelling Right Out of 1 the bath.
And I fear, however, for the price of the dog.
in fact, it is the forgiveness of the sins
of an ***;  Hello, prostitution,  a solution
for Sunday's view of cooling and heating
is one inch of Pain in the night; |||||||||||||||||||
You play the dragon and finally go into the trash,
I'm having a problem.
Johnny Noiπ Jun 2018
Marcus Aurelius was emperor over the last generation
of classicists and himself a classicist;      In Cruttwell's
view which had not been expressed by Teuffel,
Silver Latin was a "rank, ****-grown garden"
in decline. Cruttwell had already decried what he saw
as a loss of spontaneity             in Golden Latin
[an entirely fictitious phenomena composed               by  
writers of the Latin Silver Age  by fic·ti·tious supposed Golden Latin
authors                            fikˈtiSHəs/adjective

adjective: fictitious
not real or true,                 being imaginary or
having been fabricated.
"she pleaded guilty         to stealing thousands
in taxpayer dollars by having
a fictitious employee on her payroll"
synonyms: false, fake, fabricated,
sham; bogus, spurious,            assumed,
                                  a­ffected,
        adopted, feigned,      invented, made up;
informal:                                 pretend, phony
"a fictitious name"
antonyms: genuine
   relating                     to or denoting the imaginary
characters                     and events found in Silver Age fiction.
"the people in this novel are fictitious;
the background                                      of public events is not" ;
early 17th century:                                     from Latin ficticius
(from fingere ‘contrive, form’)
+ -ous (see also -itious).created
by the Silver Age as a fancied
juxtaposition to the decay of their own times].
That Teuffel                                     should regard the Silver Age as a loss
of natural language                          and therefore of spontaneity,
implies                           that there was a (              ) Golden Age,
                        passing over w/out comment
the discomfiting aspect for time-travelers
being              the impossibility of a Golden Silver Age:           excluding the bronze & Copper                     [cultures whose technologies
had more to do w/               agricultural duties,
leading to astronomy                 .               Instead, Tiberius                     brought  about a sudden collapse of letters.
The idea of a decline               had been dominant in English
society since Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall
of the Roman Empire. But once again, Cruttwell
evidenced some unease with the stock pronouncements:
"The Natural History                         of Pliny [typical of Dark Age Scholasticism]      shows how much remained to be done in every    
                              field of great interest."
However,       the idea of Pliny as a model is not consistent  
         with any sort of decline; moreover, Pliny did his best
work under emperors at least as tolerant
as Augustus had been. To include some of the best
writings of the Silver Age, (                        ),  Cruttwell
found he had to extend the period through the death
of Marcus Aurelius, 180 AD. The philosophic prose
of that good emperor was in no way compatible
with either [Teuffel's view of unnatural language]
or [Cruttwell's depiction of a decline].
Having created these constructs,   the two erstwhile
philologists found they could not then justify them;
apparently, in the worst implications of their views,
[there was no Classical               Latin by the ancient definition] at all  
                                 .
Some of the very best writing
of any period in world history
is a combination of stilted &
degenerate unnatural language
.
                                 .
The Silver Age also furnishes the only
two extant Latin novels: Apuleius's
The Golden *** and Petronius's      Satyricon.
                                ☉
Per­haps history's best-known example
of fictitious Classical Latin was written by Pontius Pilate
on the placard placed above Jesus' Cross:
IESVS NAZARENVS REX IVDAEORVM,
which translates to Jesus the Nazarean
the King of the Judeans (Jesus of Nazareth
the King of the Jews
).

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