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Thank you responsive readers who help me keep going xx

 

Thank you responsive readers who help me keep going xx

 

2.

 

Thanks (former English) Teacher,

 

I'll have to further investigate Cummings.

It's been a while.

I do believe in Poetic Truth.

Post Modernism & its death of the Author

has reeked a lot of damage to such a noble thing.

Trained as a Sociologist I became interested in many cultures/sub cultures and the question of the social construction of the self and the Presentation of the self in everyday life.

The flipside is innate poetry which I think I learned orally/aurally from my exposure to incredible parents and my experiences of the sacred, which proceeded spontaneously.

 

In many ways I am at odds with my time, but I think most good writers are.

Your words deeply encourage me that I'm making sense.

I guess writers are only as good as their readers.

You're obviously a very generous and patient one.

 

I thank you for that,

Malachi xx

 

1.

 

Up and down my friend,

 

I’m ok

 

But feeling like I’m coming out of a series of tunnels.

There are moments of light.

More than before.

Switching back to sound is good.

Literature is hard work.

My mind moves too fast.

It’s slow.

I like audio.

 

How are you?

 

My gaze now is looking outwards.

 

Thinking of my neglected brothers and sisters.

 

Happy to have found a rental.

 

But you know I’m mental.

 

I really hope this referendum gets up.

 

I forget how racist this country is.

 

It always surprises me.

 

Back to singing.

 

You’ll see less of my jottings.

 

I’ve started to spottings.

 

He died on the cross.

 

Me — not I hope.

 

Love,

Malachi xx

 

 

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