HI Gus, I have met and dated such pigs.But when their true colors came out, it was over. Its amazing, how some can hide, how they really are for a time.Its a pitty when you love them, and think they just had a bad day, or that they will change, they wont change. great poem you have there.

Comment is about Gus Jonsson (poet profile)

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Knicky Knacky bloody NOO!........ hi Val
Cant you wait until Sunday At the Tent to get rat arsed..
Many thanks for your encouraging chant!
Thanks again
Gus

Comment is about Valerie Cook (poet profile)

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Thank-you,
Cx

Comment is about Gus Jonsson (poet profile)

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Not me C... Far from it.....wish I could take ya for a whatever you drink to discuss it ....moreover to convince you I believe in what you say without question.I find you refreshingly forthright and strong..... Dont get many of those to the pound these days.... I know that I could be counted among the most ardent of your fans.

X Gus

Comment is about Gus Jonsson (poet profile)

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No need to apologise - I rarely take offence. Trying to square up - bit of a wimp, always worrying about upsetting other people, now trying to consider if they're upsetting me. Sorry to hear you find me intimidating, maybe just too intense? :-)
Cx

Comment is about Gus Jonsson (poet profile)

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I think there's some sort of telepathy thing going on here - last week when I was playing with some lines around the theme of ' You took my music from me & now I want it back, y'bastard!' - you posted your musically based 'Fat Elvis'. And this week I've been scribbling my 'Men! Can't live with 'em! Can't shoot 'em!' verse, and here you are pipping me to the post again with your mcp rap! Hey ho - back to the drawing board.
Just to warn you - next week I'm probably going with the themes of visiting relatives for Christmas, and maybe a rousing chorus of If you think my family's barmy - take a look at yours. 'Tis the season to be jolly, after all.
Cx

Comment is about Gus Jonsson (poet profile)

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Thanks Winston

Don't ever depend on standup to give you a living....
Regards
Gus

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Hi Val.
thankyou very much for your comment on my poem,"Indigo Children."
It's really appreciated.
Janet.x

Comment is about Valerie Cook (poet profile)

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Hi Winston,
And thanks for your comments on "testament." Much appreciated. I haven't got to grips with posting audio files quite yet, but thanks to help from cjd I seem to be heading in the right direction. I can certainly imagine from reading your "BIG TIME" poem why that Peter Gabriel vid would havce inspired you - one of my favourites too.

Regards

A.E.

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Thanks for your comments about 'Daisy'.
I am trying to get audio on myself - I've been told you need a mic and a sound card (which apparently my computer already had) and a free downloadable programme called 'Audacity'. So far I've managed to record well enough but I'm having difficulty converting them to mp3 - do you know anyone who is good with computers (most 5 year olds it seems)?
Good luck!
Cx

Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)

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Thanks Winston..... Just one of my little pleasures
regards
Gus

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Hi Alain,
thanks for your reply. Since i sent you a message, a different friend of mine has a brother who's just been diagnosed Aspergers.
Thanks to your information i've been able to point her in the right direction for a better understanding of his condition.
It just shows to me how nothing is ever wasted in this life. I've never been so thankful for being a member of write out loud as i am right now.
Love and light, Janet.x

Comment is about Alain English (poet profile)

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Bit of a dearth of events in my area - also seems everyone has stopped rhyming for Christmas!
Cx

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

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Thank-you! Probably won't get round to reading it aloud - sadly live quite a way from the Manchester area, and also am very nervous about performing my own stuff! - If anybody wants to give it a go for me though - I'd be delighted! - would love to know how it's received. On Pete Crompton's advice I've gone and got a mic - and just as soon as I figure out how the thing works, I'll maybe voice up a piece or two -it's a start!
Thanks again,
Cx

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

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Hi Alain,
There's a friend of mine doing some research into Aspergers. I've directed her to your profile on this site. She'll most likely email you for help.

I've found your blogs extremely interesting to read and very informative.
You're a brave man. I admire that.
Love and light to you, Janet.x

Comment is about Alain English (poet profile)

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Hi,
Thanks for your comments - pleased you like one. Completely take your point about enactment rather than exposition - was trying to draw together salt, sweet, bitter - obviously not quite to your taste ( yeah, ok - obvious pun). I shall try and enact ... look out for the headline .... Woman helping police with their enquiries regarding a .....!
Thanks again.
Cx

Comment is about Rodney Wood (poet profile)

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Thanks Steve

Sheepish wry smile back to you too!
:~}
Regards
Gus

Comment is about garside (poet profile)

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Incidentally - I really like your work - Perfect Place & Snow Ghost in particular. Unfinished Masterpiece reminds me of someone in my past - and When I Paint My Masterpiece oddly enough ... !
Cx

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

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Hi
Thanks for getting back to me ... erm... can't quite remember ....probably SNAFU - it took me a lot to work up courage to post that so comments mean a lot. Thank-you!
Btw - is it generally obvious what SNAFU stands for?
Cx

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

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then where has it gone?
Cx

Comment is about Gus Jonsson (poet profile)

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'kin genius!

Howdo mate? Be great to see you at Inn Verse again if ever you're in Manc. Next one's Thursday 18th December

Comment is about Ben Richards (poet profile)

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When I logged on earlier today I saw a song you had written, which I thought looked interesting. I didn't have the time to read it properly or comment, and now I've come back - I can't find it. Did I imagine it? was it not yours? Am I seeing things? Can you answer these pointless questions?
Cx

Comment is about Gus Jonsson (poet profile)

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No need to apologise - it's an excellent piece, and I think, I am not alone (on here!) in using poetry as a sort of therapy. Do you know the song Everybody Hurts by REM? - it tends to get sung in an angsty way, but if you listen to the lyrics it is actually saying ... get over it for God's sake - you're not unique!
Does everybody know what S N A F U means, do you think?
I agree about spreading the love and the smiles and I'm taking the tablets in order to keep doing so!
Commiserations about the golf course, but keep that grin fixed!
Cx

Comment is about Gus Jonsson (poet profile)

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Thanks so much for your comment. These mean such a lot to me. It took me longer to work up the courage to post it. Can I please ask a favour? .... I, very stupidly, pressed the 'Remove comment' button when I meant to click on your name to add this comment .... could you please...if it's not too much to ask.. add the comment again? I don't think there is a way to get them back .... :-)
Ta.
Cx

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

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Hi, Richard

This is great NEWS!!!
Good Luck with you study, I am sure, it will be successful for you, the field is very interesting-All the best!!

Holidays Greetings
From Zuzanna

Comment is about Richard Brooks (poet profile)

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I wanted something to accessorise my ermine robes and I saw that hat I thought it was to die for.

Comment is about Dermot Glennon (poet profile)

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Why the Matador outfit Dermot?

Comment is about Dermot Glennon (poet profile)

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Thanks Steve, and if I get someone sacked for laughing, I will burst with pride - people getting sacked while reading that poem was probably what the city analysts had in mind when they were predicting 2 million unemployed by the end of the year.

Paul - who knows? Maybe I was, maybe we all were. Maybe that's how we got here.

Comment is about Dermot Glennon (poet profile)

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Whilst reading antonioni's Salford poem I came across your very own Salford poem.

It made me laugh out loud. At work. I found myself on the receiving end of strange looks.

One day they'll sack me. Probably. You'll be responsible. Partially.

I'm intrigued by your biography and find myself breathless with anticipation, waiting for the inevitable masterpiece about a peaceful puppy's love for flowers. You wouldn't lie in your biography, would you?

Keep up the good work. And the bad work (important!). I'd hate to think that any aspect of your life could be thrown out of balance.

Comment is about Dermot Glennon (poet profile)

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Dear God DG you look like you've been painted by an ancient Dutch Master - just how old are you?

Comment is about Dermot Glennon (poet profile)

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Yes. I suggest you go right back to the basics young man, and start again. You are obviously one of these experimental Johnnies, and there is nothing wrong with that as long as it's done in the privacy of your own home. You may find my 'recipe for an experimental poem' will be of some help. I have posted it on the rhyme thread of the discussion forum. You, and other young poets (I can tell you're a mere whippersnapper by your daguerrotype), will probably find my guidance very beneficial.

Comment is about Dermot Glennon (poet profile)

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Rather annoyingly, that's fair comment on the Chechen chickens one. Even more annoyingly, that is the one "poem" that I have managed to sell more times than any other poems I have sold, and for the most money in any one sale too!

Comment is about Dermot Glennon (poet profile)

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Bloody rubbish! I can't believe people are showering praise on this unadulterated ordure. If I had a pound for every time I had heard some half-arsed performance poet spouting about 'Chechen chickens' I'd have £17.37 by now. It doesn't even rhyme or scan properly. It's people like you who bring the world of poetry into disrepute. If I had my way you'd be sent away to fillet fresh fish fignons in Fiji or mince migratory mackerel morsels in Madagascan motel mezzanines.

The 'object' one was ok, though.

Comment is about Dermot Glennon (poet profile)

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Thanks Andy

You,re right ...its the opening of a book I'm writing about my formative years.....
Thanks again Gus

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

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Woah.
Thats all I'm saying.
Woah.

Comment is about John Togher (poet profile)

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heeeeeey, thanks so much for taking the time to feedback me. much much much appreciated, especially from someone who's words i like! i like lou reed, both the man and the poym! sally xx

Comment is about garside (poet profile)

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Hello Steve. So sorry to keep missing Freed Up, because I really do love it. I do keep telling people how good it is, tho...

You read the 'bankers' poem at the Deaf Institute gig, didn't you? I know I've seen you read it recently-ish, and loved it. One of the best readings I've seen you do.

Thank you for the foxy comment. It's one of my favourites, and worked quite well considering it was written in about half an hour. I do quite like foxes, even tho they ate our chickens.
Well, their heads...

But it's ok, cos now we have more chickens. Hurrah!

Comment is about Steve O'Connor (poet profile)

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Sean
Really enjoyed reading in particular, 'Christmas Day 1994' and lines from reading 'Anthem for Doomed Youth' - these really written from the heart which have a clear message AND they do really work as poems

Comment is about Sean Kavanagh (poet profile)

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Hi - I've just purchased your book 'Lip' from Blackwells at Manchester University. I look forward to reading it.

Comment is about Catherine Smith (poet profile)

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Hi Gus,

sounds like an interesting book...

Comment is about Gus Jonsson (poet profile)

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Hi Steve
Thank you... it's taken from a book I'm attempting to write.

A little different from Thursday evening at Freed Up
AnywayThanks again
Gus

Comment is about garside (poet profile)

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Hi Gus, to answer your question. A place called Rutherglen (A borough at one point) on the edge of the city centre. Comes under South Lanarkshire. I love Edinburgh too. Used to go there a lot. I keep intending to go to the open mic nights in Glasgow when I visit the family. Maybe this December I'll make a special effort. It's bound to be full of interesting and strong characters I'm sure!

Comment is about Gus Jonsson (poet profile)

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Hi Alison
Many thanks for your kind remarks..... Just as a matter of interest ..where abouts in Glasgow did ye stay....I lived there for 17 years or so....Kelvinside and then Milngavie... I love the city....I'm not so fond of Edinburgh....The cold sister....

Once again many thanks
Gus

Comment is about Alison Mary Dunn (poet profile)

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Thanks for your comments Jeff
God I love the pants off Lisbon.... Love the country..... Think I have some Chicken Peri Peri and a Plate of Sardines for My tea....

If not it'll be Gemma's cakes tomoz

Regards Gus

Comment is about Jeffarama! (poet profile)

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Hi Mia
Without wanting to sound sycophantic...Your performance was very special too....since Thursday night I find myself dithering with my gear stick whilst idling at lights.
I love special naughty girls!
Well done!
Gus

Comment is about Mia Darlone (poet profile)

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Gus I just want to say I thoroughly enjoyed your performance about the (in)ability to excetute a bowel movement at FREED UP - it was simply marvellous.

Comment is about Gus Jonsson (poet profile)

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My sentiments exactly, only i don't have a cock.
love Janet.x

Comment is about John Darwin (poet profile)

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thanx for the comment hun
this ''boundery'' im on about -
is quite...how can i say....
- a shit hole lol


i know ive said it before
but perfect place is a really sweet poem
you seem a lovely gentleman

sez x

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

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thankyou kindly for taking the time to think and then comment on my poem ,

Comment is about Moira Eribenne (poet profile)

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Deep down would be fantastic set to music.

Comment is about Darren Whitehead (poet profile)

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