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Lawrence Hall Nov 2021
Lawrence Hall
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                  The Culture Wars We’ve Been Hearing About

Corporal Keats flung himself into the trench
“It’s no good,” he gasped, lighting a cigarette
“The Free Versifiers have ta’en our outposts
We spiked our sonnets but our blank verse is lost”

“And there’s an end on’t,” cried Corporal Johnson
“You will hear thunder,” sighed Corporal Ahkmatova
“Maybe we took the wrong road,” said Corporal Frost
“Where is Yevtushenko?” asked Corporal Tsvetaeva

“Back in Moscow, awarding himself the George Cross
And promoting himself to field marshal”
A poem is itself.
Johnny Noiπ May 2018
what flappers did was to wage full-frontal
assaults on conventional   western beauty;
**** is a challenge to traditional ******
roles & conventional  social expectations;
what the abstract expressionists did was to
wage a full-frontal assault on   western art
aesthetics; what beauty pageants did  was
codify the common standard of beauty in a
social context ushering other standards  of
beauty that evolved into models &  movie
stars, pin-up girls & burlesque    strippers;
what the Beats did was wage a full frontal
assault on conventional western literature;
what reality-tv does is wage a  full-frontal
assault on common sense &  sound reason;
method actors wage  a full-frontal  assault
on theater & accepted acting conventions;
what punk rock did  was wage    full-frontal
assaults on conventional   western   beauty;
feminism a challenge to traditional   ******
roles & conventional social     expectations;
what neo-expressionism did to was wage an
assault on modernism & abstract aesthetics;
what pornographic magazines      did was to
codify a common standard o     f beauty in a
social context, ushering other    standards of
       beauty that evolved into super & alt models     
*******, the Internet &  exotic dancers;
what (the Beats) do is to wage  a full frontal
assault on conventional western    literature;
what reality-tv does is wage a     full-frontal
assault on common sense &     sound reason;
big-ticket Broadway   shows wage an assault
on theater & accepted acting     conventions;

— The End —