Just wanted to share my mates poem, he’s through to final of Nozslam this year.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PLvVpY7kFAcXSBb3hAwBMuAXd0jkz75pMk&index=27&v=jA9eoE5rhcY
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Put your YouTube URL on its own line, if you could Chertsey. Ta.
I did. Is this a bug when posting from a phone as it always seem to happen.
Quite a similar theme from Mr Gee who I first saw supporting Russell Brand many moons ago.
Scroobius Pip curates a stage at Bestival where there were lots of great spoken word/poetry. Didn’t think it was my thing really until I sat there for a bit. However, cannot remember any of the names now.
Love Pip, listening to him and Dan Le Sac at this very moment.
George is cool too.
That was really excellent, Shirty.
One question though, why the accent?
Is he the same Ed Koral as this?
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He most certainly is.
Thanks for these videos, gentlemen. I have to say that this is an area I’ve never really looked at before, but can see that there’s some interesting stuff being done within the craft.
I’m gonna plagiarise myself here! I’m rolling out the hits!
Fatty and Thinny were in
The bath.
Fatty blew off, and Thinny
Laughed.
William Blake, 1827
This has been my favourite poem for as long as I can remember. I think about it every day. Structurally it is perfect. To paraphrase Salieri, to change but one word would diminish the whole. i.e. if I change it to “Fatty and Thinny were in the banana,” the structure collapses like a pack of cards, and much of the sense is lost.
At heart it is a tragic tale of the modern world, a lament to innocence lost, like Adam & Eve. Or as Blake would have it, “A song of Innocence and of Experience.”
Fatty in this representation is our Innocent. He is chubby and child-like. He knows not to be shamed by his nakedness nor his bodily functions. We find him enjoying the womb-like safety of a hot bath, happily splashing about and playing with rubber duckies. I envy him in these moments, his sweetness and his infant joy. Then he slips one out. The squelch of wet cheek on porcelain, the stream of bubbles, and hot eggy fart invades the senses. Fatty knows not what he has done.
Thinny laughs, callously. Thinny rather neatly comprises all that is wrong with the modern world. He is a withered and cynical old man. He is both the Catholic Church, and the Industrial Age. A sexual deviant, it was his suggestion that they bathe nakedly together “to save water.” He’s quietly tugging one out under the bubbles. His callous laughter reverberates through the bathroom, and it hits Fatty like a slap. His eyes widen and his cheeks burn with shame, for the first time in his young life. It is one of the most dramatic moments in English literature.
This was Blake’s final composition, dictated from his death bed and inscribed on his tomb. The summation of his life’s work and in my view, his finest hour. You should all seek it out. I particularly recommend the Latin translations.
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I didn’t like that bros Fear poem v.much, I’m sorry. I also know Scroob personally a bit, well I used to a few years back, and he’s a massive twat. I’m more interested in the Polar Bear guy that Sarb mentioned. He sounds cool!
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Fatty and Thinny were in
Lying in bed.
Fatty blew off, and Thinny
Was dead.
Widow Fatty, 1828
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Without wanting to cause any aggro, I am very interested to understand what Chertsey Saint likes about that chaps poem. It can’t be the actual words because they go against everything that he seems to believe in. Maybe it’s the rhythm of the words? Or his beard?
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I was pulling my punches cos it’s Sarb’s bro, and one has to make allowances, but I didn’t like it cos the Idea he was expressing didn’t strike me as Original or Interesting. I was prob ok with the rythym & metre & whatever else tho, i dare say it was Well Written, and other than the Daily Fail (lol), I had no problem with the Performance. I hope he wins that dumb competition, and that the prize is a beard trimmer.
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My only thought was I wish he’d put the Hoover away before he shot the film. It distracted from the central point of his argument.
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I have downvoted you, Lou, for using the brand name Hoover when the vacuum cleaner on show is clearly a different brand. You of all people should know that.
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I accept that criticism and I apologise. It’s a Henry.
But I’ve still down voted you and Bearsy for the sexism.
Thank you for apology. I feel we can move on again as friends from here.
However, as my friend, please tell me if you downvoted my post.
Sure, Fatso, whatever it takes. I’m just chuffed to be your subservient friend.