[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> 2x poems- comment

["charmaine driscoll" <missplateau@hotmail.com>]

The problem with this sort of verse is that it is all sentiment and not 
content, no deeper probing into the viscera and issue of what is at stake. 
So whatever meaning it has, and there is the denotative sense available to 
all, is lost in the flood of denotation and daily disuse of nouns and 
adjectives whose signifiance has been deadened and abused to cliché. This is 
a malaise which has a remedy and that is language poetry and its 
reformulations of the territory of linguisitic alienation. one sees this 
sort of verse again and again, and sadly as soon read as soon forgot

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>Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 22:35:37 +0200
>From: "Mona Abdallah" <mona@lecafe.net>
>Subject: Brand new world
>
>Hello all:
>
>A poem by a friend of mine, the Arab poet, Ehab Lotayef. Will be =
>published in the next issue of LeCafe. But definitely worth sharing NOW! =
>Enjoy...
>
>M
>
>Brand new world
>=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
>
>Kabul fell.
>Congratulations on swapping Abdul for Abdil.
>Opium will be flowing, still,
>and all the amputees,
>survivors of a war that can't be won,
>will continue to live in hell.
>But, congratulations anyway:
>Kabul fell
>
>Today's heroes,
>please don't forget,
>are tomorrow's villains;
>but only when the White-House-man
>will have the will
>
>Kabul fell,
>and gardens of bright red roses
>will grow around every well.
>Caravans will give way to vans
>and the mud-hut, to a motel.
>It's the dawn of a brand new world,
>now that Kabul fell
>
>- --
>Ehab Lotayef
>Montreal, November 13, 2001
>
>L

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