Friends:
Many thanks for all your comments re the PAFA spat. I'll be staying on the
list. I notice some of my messages from over a week ago have started to
appear, so there must have been some network problems somewhere. (In spite
of Pierce's claims to the contrary I have rarely if ever posted more than 4
emails a week: 4 short poems. I don't do the long ones here, my eyes can't
take it) I was wondering if maybe some of my messages were being
suppressed, and some of my wonderings on that matter may yet come
through, but apparently that wasn't the case. A couple of those messages
said I wanted to unsubscribe but please ignore those.
I actually enjoy spoofs/rewritings/remakings/hacks etc of my work and have
published hundreds of such works in various ways over the years. I feel
that art is both strongly individual and unique, and at the same time
should be completely available for collaboration of any kind because in an
important way all art is also collaborative/non-individualistic, and has no
ego boundaries. Pierce's spoof seems a tad mean-spirited, but at least
it's a step in the right ("write") direction. Try it again, Jason! Maybe
you'll discover something.
Josh, I like your "Aeroplaner" a lot and would like to print this one
somewhere, perhaps in Lost & Found Times, or in Void, or in one of my other
imprints. OK? If so, send me your mailing address and I'll get a copy to you.
Onword!
John The Poetry Aggressor
