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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Notes towards a new anti-war 'epic' ...

« Last post by Phil Talbot on January 01, 2024, 12:09:31 PM »

On (too) many occasions I have thought-felt life ‘worthless’.
But ... if I were to say: Destroy ItAll in a nuclear war ... would that make me more of a ‘nihilist’ than those who actually build/create/envisage/support/‘champion’ those terrible ‘things’?!
Anyway ... the ‘suicide’ kills him/herself because she/he believes his/her life has no longer any enduring ‘meaning’ ...
Was I ‘there’ yet?!
Not ‘quite’/‘quit’ ...
But ...
Could the world/God/gods/Cosmos/call’it’what you will ... have an ‘end-point’ ? ... after which ... ‘no more ... for better or for worse ...’
‘It’ was not there yet ... but there was a sense among a growing many that I/we/they/it was reaching (towards) some sort of ‘endpoint(.)’ ...

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Notes towards a new anti-war 'epic' ...

« Last post by Phil Talbot on January 01, 2024, 11:42:41 AM »

... nearing the ‘end’ of my journey in (‘this’) life ...
I woke to find myself in a dark wood,
For I had wandered/rambled off from the ‘straight path’.

How hard it is to tell what it is/was like ... ?!!

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Notes towards a new anti-war 'epic' ...

« Last post by Phil Talbot on January 01, 2024, 11:35:05 AM »

2024 ... new year day ... the ‘pilgrim’ wakes to find her-/him-self lost in a ‘dark wood’ ... terrified @ b’ing alone in so dismal a place ... he/she ‘rambles’ ... until ... a hill ‘bathed in sun-light’ ...

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Nostalgia? In The Beginning ...

« Last post by Phil Talbot on January 01, 2024, 10:58:33 AM »

2024 ... another ‘new year’ western/euro. Dating systems /‘ paradigms’ .... but nothing much ‘changed’ ... he/she/they/we ... were like/as if ‘stuck records’ (in olde/out-mode(a)d form(s) of ‘discourse/dis-coarse’) ... & I/you/we/they/etc ... [ClicheAlert!] ‘never learnt/learned less-ons from his-tory’ ...

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Notes towards a new anti-war 'epic' ...

« Last post by Phil Talbot on December 31, 2023, 08:39:40 PM »

Anyway ...
If I had gone off .,, given into Clare/Claire that night, in the taxi ..,. into my ‘home’ of that time ... she would not have married a ‘millionaire’ .,, & I would not have ‘turned’ out 2b ... a chain-smoking piss-artist paranoid schizoid manic depressive ‘fucking arsehole .., ! ... ‘funnny how ‘things’ turn out ...

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Nostalgia? In The Beginning ...

« Last post by Phil Talbot on December 31, 2023, 06:12:09 PM »

So ... I made love / had sex with ms.c.o’kelly ... &, @ the time, I thought-felt 1stly / mostly of mine/my own pleasure  ‘first’&ofhers2nd ... & what was ‘that’ but another form of a sort of ‘rape’ ... & how ‘common’ was ‘that’?! ... I regretted a lot when I thought/felt about ‘things’, in ‘past tense’ ... if you don’t have sex without thinking-feeling of the ‘other’ coming first, then ... forgive me ever?! p.x

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Notes towards a new anti-war 'epic' ...

« Last post by Phil Talbot on December 29, 2023, 02:06:40 PM »

  remembering ‘TheFool’ ...
Even his death was doubtful.
Even his death was ‘doubtf’l’
The world had seen so much, it’s sad weight
Crushed to nothing concern for a fool’s fate:
General woe, great decay, made it but a trifle.

He disappeared as if to spite Morning/mourning;
Going to bed at noon,
Not too late, not too soon;
Outside, a naughty night was storming.

Fool-father Socrates takes the stand ...
etc, etc, etc

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Notes towards a new anti-war 'epic' ...

« Last post by Phil Talbot on December 29, 2023, 01:48:31 AM »

... (universal) tragedy? ... (universal) comedy? ... you decide ... ) ...
... trgycmdy for the spacetime being ...

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Notes towards a new anti-war 'epic' ...

« Last post by Phil Talbot on December 29, 2023, 01:28:55 AM »

... there are always other ways ...
... you are ‘damned’ because Eve&Adam ate from the TreeOfKnowledge ...
... Prometheus gave to ‘humanity’ the KnowledgeOfLight ...

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Notes towards a new anti-war 'epic' ...

« Last post by Phil Talbot on December 29, 2023, 01:16:12 AM »

... I actually ‘forced’ to be ‘re-assigned’ here ... because I ‘liked the look’ of ‘humanity’ ... but then I ‘saw’/otherwiseexperienced ‘the horrible howling of the Yahoos’ [$wift] ... & I watched, eg, Israeli massacres of Palestinians, (as the rest of ‘their’ world looked on) & I thought-feeled/felt ...