Cartel of Defiance

cartel of defiance (noun): 1. In medieval combat, a formal declaration, delivered by herald, of a combatant's intention to fight and refusal to submit. 2. An electronic assemblage of engaged and enraged citizens. 3. An intertextual mode of reading, writing, and thinking that puts the current political, cultural, and personal moment in dialogue with text/art from the past in counterargument to the ahistorical Memory Hole into which America seems to have slipped.

Friday, September 23, 2005

Friday Cat Blogging

And that will be England gone,
The shadows, the meadows, the lanes
The guildhalls, the carved choirs.
There'll be books; it will linger on
In galleries; but all that remains
For us will be concrete and tyres.

Most things are never meant.
This won't be, most likely: but greeds
And garbage are too thick-strewn
To be swept up now, or invent
Excuses that make them all needs.
I just think it will happen, soon.

From "Going, Going"
Philip Larkin

2 Comments:

Blogger awol said...

I thought this could be a new form for C.o.D. -- just a poem or part of a poem thrown out on Fridays, that speaks in someway to, or from, one of us.

8:10 PM  
Blogger awol said...

No way, man: "there are some simple pleasures in life that really help you cope. One is Barney the dog, and the other is books."

10:21 PM  

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