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"Nothing on earth is worse than a literary gent talking about his own stuff." ~~Archibald MacLeish, February 1927 letter to Hemingway ~The Selected Letters of Archibald MacLeish, Paris Review, Summer 1982

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For your self study
a dictionary might help 'ya

Despite those "real" poets that tout
forced spam feeding to the devout
the actual poets let out an angry shout
"Who let the louts out?!"
"Who let the Sod out?"
"Who let the Dunce out?"

Those oafs, such trollish boors...

First thing I heard today was the rending of metal- the all too familiar dirge for another poor soul getting their one way ticket to the mortuary.
And I shouted aloud today
because I awoke realizing than I still feel
a never ending indignation, let loose with a soul torn exclamation
woke the neighbors with my angry anthem with such a furious sound
shook the walls and windows
And sent the winged creatures of the Earth reeling, tumbling from their perches to the ground.

And so I composed a little Therapy Ditty

Someone said that I seemed troubled
So I tell them to perish the thought, but they redouble
Didn't I know that they have therapies for my troubles?
Why yes, I did know, thank you for your trouble
but what you see is merely my mortal struggle.

Who cannot know of the ever expanding therapy industry
with a therapy for every known ill apparently
Upon every thrill and chill of the Human Condition
by leaps and bounds they will forever expound

And though I may be troubled by all that's around me
and I would probably be better if there wasn't a World to bother me so
But apparently I need the World, so my only recourse may be a lobotomy
Then everything will be swell and I'll fit in so well.

Truth nowadays appears to be subjective and can be argued forever just like they do about the shape of the World.
And you can count on it reaching ludicrous levels-- plaid is the new fad.

So I will live by my bloody paw
where the rule of the aggressor is the only law
and the passive just become prey
But what can I say?
While the wannabe hunters pick easy prey
I prefer a worth while game to make them pay

So many scars upon my fingers, their pain will always linger
a carved notch for every heinous deed, lest I forget,
and one carved on my wrist to my love called Regret
So when asked by those who would inquire so gingerly
I tell them that they're just work place injuries

The slurping son of a snitch
Is his autocorrect's bitch
Forget propriety, that's been ditched
Not even a two ton winch
will budge his narcissism an inch

On Monday, January 23, 2023 at 9:32:27 AM UTC-5, Ash Wurthing wrote:
> The slurping son of a snitch
> Is his autocorrect's bitch
> Forget propriety, that's been ditched
> Not even a two ton winch
> will budge his narcissism an inch

And... the war goes on as a Losenet vet always brays...

Illusory is your self-imagined elite standing in Usenet society
Like some kind of poetry pop idol, thinking you're better than me
But without worshipers, you make a pale facsimile of a creative deity
As the Bard said, a poor player-- at being an epitome of superiority
Just only an avatar of the nimiety of mediocrity
while you sit alone with your hopes and desires-
all pinned upon a digital signal choir

And so it goes with such sound and furious flurry from an idiot, a poor player spamming and fending for his hour upon the stage until he is heard no more.
And so it will go until the bitter end, not with an encore but with fate's snicker at the simpering whimper...

On Saturday, 18 March 2023 at 16:13:48 UTC-4, Ash Wurthing wrote:
> On Monday, January 23, 2023 at 9:32:27 AM UTC-5, Ash Wurthing wrote:
> > The slurping son of a snitch
> > Is his autocorrect's bitch
> > Forget propriety, that's been ditched
> > Not even a two ton winch
> > will budge his narcissism an inch
> And... the war goes on as a Losenet vet always brays...
>
> Illusory is your self-imagined elite standing in Usenet society
> Like some kind of poetry pop idol, thinking you're better than me
> But without worshipers, you make a pale facsimile of a creative deity
> As the Bard said, a poor player-- at being an epitome of superiority
> Just only an avatar of the nimiety of mediocrity
> while you sit alone with your hopes and desires-
> all pinned upon a digital signal choir
>
> And so it goes with such sound and furious flurry from an idiot, a poor player spamming and fending for his hour upon the stage until he is heard no more.
> And so it will go until the bitter end, not with an encore but with fate's snicker at the simpering whimper...

Amen….

Need I say more…

https://groups.google.com/g/alt.arts.poetry.comments/c/cQx-pzvZMR8/m/B_2qGSkuAAAJ
Ash Wurthing
Jul 9, 2023, 10:00:35 PM
Hello sWilly, you're slacking in your attempted laming and shaming-- we need this up top for everyone to see Dance's and your true faces...
I didn't say "All the World's a stage." The Bard doesn't own the concept that the World being Life's stage, it's a common concept and saying now, and he's not the only one among billions and centuries that could come up with that concept-- anyone not even knowing what he wrote could come up with that.
For those that think everything is a direct Shakespeare reference, there's more things in the World, armchairist, than you know in that narrow minded, self absorbed world view of yours.

"They do say that the World is a stage and so would be the venues of the Digital Age."

Will Dockery
Jul 10, 2023, 12:36:49 AM
On Sunday, July 9, 2023 at 10:00:35 PM UTC-4, Ash Wurthing wrote:
> On Friday, July 7, 2023 at 7:33:30 PM UTC-4, Ash Wurthing wrote:
> > On Wednesday, February 8, 2023 at 10:30:23 AM UTC-5, George Dance wrote:
>
> > On Wednesday, February 8, 2023 at 9:22:14 AM UTC-5, Ash Wurthing decided to prove he did, too, know something about English poetry by namedropping William Shakespeare (with hilarious results):
> > >
> > > > Now where was I?
> > > > Is that the smell of burnt threads in the morning? Incinerated intentions and dreams scorched? How pleasing, it inspires me to recite some verses!
> > > >
> > > > They do say that the World is a stage
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Here

< I didn't say "All the World's a stage."

See above, apparently you did. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Ash Wurthing
Jul 10, 2023, 6:44:46 AM
Actually copy and paste the sentence from my words that says "All the World's a stage," if that is so... I bet you can't...

W.Dockery
Jul 10, 2023, 7:25:10 AM
Okay, you wrote "the World is a stage."

Ash Wurthing
Jul 10, 2023, 8:43:29 PM
Nonapology noted...
and since that's all you give for me to comment on, then I shall comment on it's cowardliness.

W.Dockery
Jul 10, 2023, 9:10:12 PM
Ash Wurthing wrote:
< Nonapology noted

That's right, no apology.

Shallow minds lost in empty shells with noting redeeming can they find while trapped in their own Hells

On Monday, August 14, 2023 at 2:49:30 AM UTC-4, Ash Wurthing wrote:
> https://groups.google.com/g/alt.arts.poetry.comments/c/cQx-pzvZMR8/m/B_2qGSkuAAAJ
> Ash Wurthing
> Jul 9, 2023, 10:00:35 PM
> Hello sWilly, you're slacking in your attempted laming and shaming-- we need this up top for everyone to see Dance's and your true faces...
> I didn't say "All the World's a stage." The Bard doesn't own the concept that the World being Life's stage, it's a common concept and saying now, and he's not the only one among billions and centuries that could come up with that concept-- anyone not even knowing what he wrote could come up with that.
> For those that think everything is a direct Shakespeare reference, there's more things in the World, armchairist, than you know in that narrow minded, self absorbed world view of yours.
>
> "They do say that the World is a stage and so would be the venues of the Digital Age."
>
> Will Dockery
> Jul 10, 2023, 12:36:49 AM
> On Sunday, July 9, 2023 at 10:00:35 PM UTC-4, Ash Wurthing wrote:
> > On Friday, July 7, 2023 at 7:33:30 PM UTC-4, Ash Wurthing wrote:
> > > On Wednesday, February 8, 2023 at 10:30:23 AM UTC-5, George Dance wrote:
> >
> > > On Wednesday, February 8, 2023 at 9:22:14 AM UTC-5, Ash Wurthing decided to prove he did, too, know something about English poetry by namedropping William Shakespeare (with hilarious results):
> > > >
> > > > > Now where was I?
> > > > > Is that the smell of burnt threads in the morning? Incinerated intentions and dreams scorched? How pleasing, it inspires me to recite some verses!
> > > > >
> > > > > They do say that the World is a stage
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Here
>
> < I didn't say "All the World's a stage."
>
> See above, apparently you did. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Ash Wurthing
> Jul 10, 2023, 6:44:46 AM
> Actually copy and paste the sentence from my words that says "All the World's a stage," if that is so... I bet you can't...
>
> W.Dockery
> Jul 10, 2023, 7:25:10 AM
> Okay, you wrote "the World is a stage."
>
> Ash Wurthing
> Jul 10, 2023, 8:43:29 PM
> Nonapology noted...
> and since that's all you give for me to comment on, then I shall comment on it's cowardliness.
>
> W.Dockery
> Jul 10, 2023, 9:10:12 PM
> Ash Wurthing wrote:
> < Nonapology noted
>
> That's right, no apology.
>
> Shallow minds lost in empty shells with noting redeeming can they find while trapped in their own Hells
>

On Thursday, August 17, 2023 at 9:34:03 AM UTC-4, Michael Pendragon wrote:
> On Monday, August 14, 2023 at 2:49:30 AM UTC-4, Ash Wurthing wrote:
> > https://groups.google.com/g/alt.arts.poetry.comments/c/cQx-pzvZMR8/m/B_2qGSkuAAAJ
> > Ash Wurthing
> > Jul 9, 2023, 10:00:35 PM
> > Hello sWilly, you're slacking in your attempted laming and shaming-- we need this up top for everyone to see Dance's and your true faces...
> > I didn't say "All the World's a stage." The Bard doesn't own the concept that the World being Life's stage, it's a common concept and saying now, and he's not the only one among billions and centuries that could come up with that concept-- anyone not even knowing what he wrote could come up with that.
> > For those that think everything is a direct Shakespeare reference, there's more things in the World, armchairist, than you know in that narrow minded, self absorbed world view of yours.
> >
> > "They do say that the World is a stage and so would be the venues of the Digital Age."
> >
> > Will Dockery
> > Jul 10, 2023, 12:36:49 AM
> > On Sunday, July 9, 2023 at 10:00:35 PM UTC-4, Ash Wurthing wrote:
> > > On Friday, July 7, 2023 at 7:33:30 PM UTC-4, Ash Wurthing wrote:
> > > > On Wednesday, February 8, 2023 at 10:30:23 AM UTC-5, George Dance wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Wednesday, February 8, 2023 at 9:22:14 AM UTC-5, Ash Wurthing decided to prove he did, too, know something about English poetry by namedropping William Shakespeare (with hilarious results):
> > > > >
> > > > > > Now where was I?
> > > > > > Is that the smell of burnt threads in the morning? Incinerated intentions and dreams scorched? How pleasing, it inspires me to recite some verses!
> > > > > >
> > > > > > They do say that the World is a stage
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > Here
> >
> > < I didn't say "All the World's a stage."
> >
> > See above, apparently you did. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> > Ash Wurthing
> > Jul 10, 2023, 6:44:46 AM
> > Actually copy and paste the sentence from my words that says "All the World's a stage," if that is so... I bet you can't...
> >
> > W.Dockery
> > Jul 10, 2023, 7:25:10 AM
> > Okay, you wrote "the World is a stage."
> >
> > Ash Wurthing
> > Jul 10, 2023, 8:43:29 PM
> > Nonapology noted...
> > and since that's all you give for me to comment on, then I shall comment on it's cowardliness.
> >
> > W.Dockery
> > Jul 10, 2023, 9:10:12 PM
> > Ash Wurthing wrote:
> > < Nonapology noted
> >
> > That's right, no apology.
> >
> > Shallow minds lost in empty shells with noting redeeming can they find while trapped in their own Hells
> >
>

On Thursday, August 17, 2023 at 10:39:36 AM UTC-4, Coco DeSockmonkey wrote:
> On Thursday, August 17, 2023 at 9:34:03 AM UTC-4, Michael Pendragon wrote:
> > On Monday, August 14, 2023 at 2:49:30 AM UTC-4, Ash Wurthing wrote:
> > > https://groups.google.com/g/alt.arts.poetry.comments/c/cQx-pzvZMR8/m/B_2qGSkuAAAJ
> > > Ash Wurthing
> > > Jul 9, 2023, 10:00:35 PM
> > > Hello sWilly, you're slacking in your attempted laming and shaming-- we need this up top for everyone to see Dance's and your true faces...
> > > I didn't say "All the World's a stage." The Bard doesn't own the concept that the World being Life's stage, it's a common concept and saying now, and he's not the only one among billions and centuries that could come up with that concept-- anyone not even knowing what he wrote could come up with that.
> > > For those that think everything is a direct Shakespeare reference, there's more things in the World, armchairist, than you know in that narrow minded, self absorbed world view of yours.
> > >
> > > "They do say that the World is a stage and so would be the venues of the Digital Age."
> > >
> > > Will Dockery
> > > Jul 10, 2023, 12:36:49 AM
> > > On Sunday, July 9, 2023 at 10:00:35 PM UTC-4, Ash Wurthing wrote:
> > > > On Friday, July 7, 2023 at 7:33:30 PM UTC-4, Ash Wurthing wrote:
> > > > > On Wednesday, February 8, 2023 at 10:30:23 AM UTC-5, George Dance wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > On Wednesday, February 8, 2023 at 9:22:14 AM UTC-5, Ash Wurthing decided to prove he did, too, know something about English poetry by namedropping William Shakespeare (with hilarious results):
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > Now where was I?
> > > > > > > Is that the smell of burnt threads in the morning? Incinerated intentions and dreams scorched? How pleasing, it inspires me to recite some verses!
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > They do say that the World is a stage
> > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > > Here
> > >
> > > < I didn't say "All the World's a stage."
> > >
> > > See above, apparently you did. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > >
> > > Ash Wurthing
> > > Jul 10, 2023, 6:44:46 AM
> > > Actually copy and paste the sentence from my words that says "All the World's a stage," if that is so... I bet you can't...
> > >
> > > W.Dockery
> > > Jul 10, 2023, 7:25:10 AM
> > > Okay, you wrote "the World is a stage."
> > >
> > > Ash Wurthing
> > > Jul 10, 2023, 8:43:29 PM
> > > Nonapology noted...
> > > and since that's all you give for me to comment on, then I shall comment on it's cowardliness.
> > >
> > > W.Dockery
> > > Jul 10, 2023, 9:10:12 PM
> > > Ash Wurthing wrote:
> > > < Nonapology noted
> > >
> > > That's right, no apology.
> > >
> > > Shallow minds lost in empty shells with noting redeeming can they find while trapped in their own Hells
> > >
> >
>

On Thursday, August 17, 2023 at 1:15:59 PM UTC-4, Coco DeSockmonkey wrote:
> On Thursday, August 17, 2023 at 10:39:36 AM UTC-4, Coco DeSockmonkey wrote:
> > On Thursday, August 17, 2023 at 9:34:03 AM UTC-4, Michael Pendragon wrote:
> > > On Monday, August 14, 2023 at 2:49:30 AM UTC-4, Ash Wurthing wrote:
> > > > https://groups.google.com/g/alt.arts.poetry.comments/c/cQx-pzvZMR8/m/B_2qGSkuAAAJ
> > > > Ash Wurthing
> > > > Jul 9, 2023, 10:00:35 PM
> > > > Hello sWilly, you're slacking in your attempted laming and shaming-- we need this up top for everyone to see Dance's and your true faces...
> > > > I didn't say "All the World's a stage." The Bard doesn't own the concept that the World being Life's stage, it's a common concept and saying now, and he's not the only one among billions and centuries that could come up with that concept-- anyone not even knowing what he wrote could come up with that.
> > > > For those that think everything is a direct Shakespeare reference, there's more things in the World, armchairist, than you know in that narrow minded, self absorbed world view of yours.
> > > >
> > > > "They do say that the World is a stage and so would be the venues of the Digital Age."
> > > >
> > > > Will Dockery
> > > > Jul 10, 2023, 12:36:49 AM
> > > > On Sunday, July 9, 2023 at 10:00:35 PM UTC-4, Ash Wurthing wrote:
> > > > > On Friday, July 7, 2023 at 7:33:30 PM UTC-4, Ash Wurthing wrote:
> > > > > > On Wednesday, February 8, 2023 at 10:30:23 AM UTC-5, George Dance wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > On Wednesday, February 8, 2023 at 9:22:14 AM UTC-5, Ash Wurthing decided to prove he did, too, know something about English poetry by namedropping William Shakespeare (with hilarious results):
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Now where was I?
> > > > > > > > Is that the smell of burnt threads in the morning? Incinerated intentions and dreams scorched? How pleasing, it inspires me to recite some verses!
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > They do say that the World is a stage
> > > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > > > Here
> > > >
> > > > < I didn't say "All the World's a stage."
> > > >
> > > > See above, apparently you did. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > > >
> > > > Ash Wurthing
> > > > Jul 10, 2023, 6:44:46 AM
> > > > Actually copy and paste the sentence from my words that says "All the World's a stage," if that is so... I bet you can't...
> > > >
> > > > W.Dockery
> > > > Jul 10, 2023, 7:25:10 AM
> > > > Okay, you wrote "the World is a stage."
> > > >
> > > > Ash Wurthing
> > > > Jul 10, 2023, 8:43:29 PM
> > > > Nonapology noted...
> > > > and since that's all you give for me to comment on, then I shall comment on it's cowardliness.
> > > >
> > > > W.Dockery
> > > > Jul 10, 2023, 9:10:12 PM
> > > > Ash Wurthing wrote:
> > > > < Nonapology noted
> > > >
> > > > That's right, no apology.
> > > >
> > > > Shallow minds lost in empty shells with noting redeeming can they find while trapped in their own Hells
> > > >
> > >
> >
>

On Monday, 14 August 2023 at 02:49:30 UTC-4, Ash Wurthing wrote:
> https://groups.google.com/g/alt.arts.poetry.comments/c/cQx-pzvZMR8/m/B_2qGSkuAAAJ
> Ash Wurthing
> Jul 9, 2023, 10:00:35 PM
> Hello sWilly, you're slacking in your attempted laming and shaming-- we need this up top for everyone to see Dance's and your true faces...
> I didn't say "All the World's a stage." The Bard doesn't own the concept that the World being Life's stage, it's a common concept and saying now, and he's not the only one among billions and centuries that could come up with that concept-- anyone not even knowing what he wrote could come up with that.
> For those that think everything is a direct Shakespeare reference, there's more things in the World, armchairist, than you know in that narrow minded, self absorbed world view of yours.
>
> "They do say that the World is a stage and so would be the venues of the Digital Age."
>
> Will Dockery
> Jul 10, 2023, 12:36:49 AM
> On Sunday, July 9, 2023 at 10:00:35 PM UTC-4, Ash Wurthing wrote:
> > On Friday, July 7, 2023 at 7:33:30 PM UTC-4, Ash Wurthing wrote:
> > > On Wednesday, February 8, 2023 at 10:30:23 AM UTC-5, George Dance wrote:
> >
> > > On Wednesday, February 8, 2023 at 9:22:14 AM UTC-5, Ash Wurthing decided to prove he did, too, know something about English poetry by namedropping William Shakespeare (with hilarious results):
> > > >
> > > > > Now where was I?
> > > > > Is that the smell of burnt threads in the morning? Incinerated intentions and dreams scorched? How pleasing, it inspires me to recite some verses!
> > > > >
> > > > > They do say that the World is a stage
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Here
>
> < I didn't say "All the World's a stage."
>
> See above, apparently you did. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Ash Wurthing
> Jul 10, 2023, 6:44:46 AM
> Actually copy and paste the sentence from my words that says "All the World's a stage," if that is so... I bet you can't...
>
> W.Dockery
> Jul 10, 2023, 7:25:10 AM
> Okay, you wrote "the World is a stage."
>
> Ash Wurthing
> Jul 10, 2023, 8:43:29 PM
> Nonapology noted...
> and since that's all you give for me to comment on, then I shall comment on it's cowardliness.
>
> W.Dockery
> Jul 10, 2023, 9:10:12 PM
> Ash Wurthing wrote:
> < Nonapology noted
>
> That's right, no apology.
>
> Shallow minds lost in empty shells with noting redeeming can they find while trapped in their own Hells

On Thursday, 17 August 2023 at 21:12:32 UTC-4, ME wrote:
> On Monday, 14 August 2023 at 02:49:30 UTC-4, Ash Wurthing wrote:
> > https://groups.google.com/g/alt.arts.poetry.comments/c/cQx-pzvZMR8/m/B_2qGSkuAAAJ
> > Ash Wurthing
> > Jul 9, 2023, 10:00:35 PM
> > Hello sWilly, you're slacking in your attempted laming and shaming-- we need this up top for everyone to see Dance's and your true faces...
> > I didn't say "All the World's a stage." The Bard doesn't own the concept that the World being Life's stage, it's a common concept and saying now, and he's not the only one among billions and centuries that could come up with that concept-- anyone not even knowing what he wrote could come up with that.
> > For those that think everything is a direct Shakespeare reference, there's more things in the World, armchairist, than you know in that narrow minded, self absorbed world view of yours.
> >
> > "They do say that the World is a stage and so would be the venues of the Digital Age."
> >
> > Will Dockery
> > Jul 10, 2023, 12:36:49 AM
> > On Sunday, July 9, 2023 at 10:00:35 PM UTC-4, Ash Wurthing wrote:
> > > On Friday, July 7, 2023 at 7:33:30 PM UTC-4, Ash Wurthing wrote:
> > > > On Wednesday, February 8, 2023 at 10:30:23 AM UTC-5, George Dance wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Wednesday, February 8, 2023 at 9:22:14 AM UTC-5, Ash Wurthing decided to prove he did, too, know something about English poetry by namedropping William Shakespeare (with hilarious results):
> > > > >
> > > > > > Now where was I?
> > > > > > Is that the smell of burnt threads in the morning? Incinerated intentions and dreams scorched? How pleasing, it inspires me to recite some verses!
> > > > > >
> > > > > > They do say that the World is a stage
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > Here
> >
> > < I didn't say "All the World's a stage."
> >
> > See above, apparently you did. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> > Ash Wurthing
> > Jul 10, 2023, 6:44:46 AM
> > Actually copy and paste the sentence from my words that says "All the World's a stage," if that is so... I bet you can't...
> >
> > W.Dockery
> > Jul 10, 2023, 7:25:10 AM
> > Okay, you wrote "the World is a stage."
> >
> > Ash Wurthing
> > Jul 10, 2023, 8:43:29 PM
> > Nonapology noted...
> > and since that's all you give for me to comment on, then I shall comment on it's cowardliness.
> >
> > W.Dockery
> > Jul 10, 2023, 9:10:12 PM
> > Ash Wurthing wrote:
> > < Nonapology noted
> >
> > That's right, no apology.
> >
> > Shallow minds lost in empty shells with noting redeeming can they find while trapped in their own Hells