Monday, 12 May 2008

a world cast in frost! hughes

f'n'n' passable/ slightly static and poisoned but have barely got circulation moving/ ekootin: seeing red, killing joke/ trick shit, bitch/ now stranglehold, ted nungent/ pecking at caffe schwartz 'n' gaining my bearings/ must write a pome 2joor/ most of the stuff i'v' bin producing d'late smacks of no clear direction and an unforgivable absence of effort/ well, i'm not too keen on effort (most good stuff comes in a flash, thank you muses) but when the muse is abroad some degree application is essential/ and one must write both under inspiration and as a daily grind because both improve the standard of one's work/ and the better acquainted one is with one's trade, the better chance the muse has of being represented accurately/ nah mean?/

2 comments:

b-more literate said...

"well, I'm not too keen on effort," I'm of the same sentiment. One of my favourite quotes is from Fitzgerald, "I'd hate to think I ever got anything by working for it." It's a phrase that resonates within me and something I'm afraid I've always lived by.

Only atoms and the void said...

fitzgerald...a wasted genius, dead (mentally) by 44. the world did not deserve him.