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HarryLime wrote:

NancyGene wrote:
On Wed, 11 Jun 2025 17:31:37 +0000, HarryLime wrote:

HarryLime wrote:

HarryLime wrote:

Miguel Sucio wrote:

General Zod wrote:
On Saturday, November 16, 2019 at 3:59:05 PM UTC-5, Loretta Hobo Cumdump >>> wrote:

On Friday, November 15, 2019 at 2:34:57 PM UTC-5, Michael Pendragon
wrote:
Below is an essay addressing your work in a positive light. What do you >>> think about the various points raised in it? Does it capture the
essence of your art? If not, where does it go wrong?

COLUMBUS, GA is the fastest-growing cultural center in the U.S. (dare
one venture in the world?), and two of AAPC's most active members are
the driving force behind it all. Will Dockery and George "Stink"
Sulzbach are well known throughout Columbus for the street poetry,
artwork, music concerts, "indie" publications, underground films and
television shows; but their greatest impact on the art world is through
the new poetic movement they've established -- Fragmentist Poetry.

Fragmentist Poetry combines Imagist Poetry with Minimalism to create
what they describe as a "montage" within their readers' minds.
Fragmentism pares Imagism down to its barest essentials, i.e., to a
series of memory fragments describing persons, places or things.
Narrative is abandoned. Form is nonexistent. Mood, message, emotion,
tone and theme are barely, if at all, present. English grammar and
composition are irrelevant as language exists solely to convey the image >>> fragments.

Fragmentism concerns itself only with recording a series of
thought-images in a stream of consciousness style. Fragmentism is based >>> upon image association (much like word association wherein individual
words have been replaced by two- and three-word descriptive passages):

Bottle bled dry,
Dogs lapping vomit.
Coffee stained fingers,
Fate constrained by stars.

One reason that Fragmentist Poetry has taken the literary world by storm >>> is that anyone can write it. No education (other than a fourth grade
level vocabulary), philosophical insight, imagination or compositional
skill is required. This is street poetry in its most literal
incarnation. It is the voice of the common man (and woman), evoking
images that everyone can relate to.

Fragmentist criticism is equally minimalist, often comprising no more
than a thimbleful of words ("Outdamnstanding," "One of your best," "Me
likee likee," & so on). An in-depth critique seeks only to identify the >>> topic -- as the topic and the poem are necessarily the same. And this,
so the Fragmentists argue, is the point. A poem should not be a barrage >>> of words and punctuation attesting to the poet's erudition and
grammatical expertise. A poem is the images it evokes.

And their argument finds strong support in the field of psychology,
which maintains that our unconscious mind is non-verbal and therefore
only able to communicate with us through dream symbolism, or imagery.
In replicating the dream experience, the poet is directly addressing the >>> non-verbal aspects of our psyche -- our sub-conscious and unconscious
selves.

Critics have long held that poetry is a dying art form; but that is
because they seek for it only in its traditional outlets. The poetry of >>> tomorrow will not be found in the academic journals, but at the truck
stops, dive bars, hobo camps and homeless shelters.

So let's all pour ourselves a glass of MD 20/20 and raise a toast to the >>> visionary, literary trailblazers in our midst. Zorro!P

Pass that Mad Dog here, young man. I'll blow you for a sip.



Get back Loretta, I blow for free.


We know.


These photos really say it all.


1,000 donkey pictures can't even begin to compete with these.



I can't even say which image is more disgusting (or sickening, or
frightening).

[shudders]


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Stolen toilet paper, mooching buddies, worthless lives. They probably
posted those images on Tinder or Only Fans.

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No wonder they're only meeting whackos like Carothers, Pickles and Jordy's Uncle.

Turds of a feather (to be flushed together).


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