LUKE DAVIS -- POEMS

[luka]

It's not hard, I said it with yyyyyyyyyyyaldrin and prynne

 

[Benny Bunter]

Was thinking today, the reason I enjoy reading poetry the most when I'm a bit pissed is because you leave off the stultifying analytical thing and just enjoy it. Ideally you should just be carried along by it

 

[luka]

Yea, pissed, is fine, you need to knock the boring ego off centre, not speaking the language hekpd

 

[luka]

Your normal dweeb self is the obstacle

 

[luka]

People won't tell you this only I will explain I simple terms

 

[Benny Bunter]

You're right, but I also enjoy the dweeby part of it as well. But it should be kept separate for MAXIMUM JOY

 

[luka]

Maximum Joy is a different mode of engagement

 

[mixed_biscuits]

She can, perfectly, only English speakers get confuse d. It's not hard

When are you releasing the Hungarian translation for the English speakers?

 

[Clinamenic]

 

[Benny Bunter]

gaseous supposition poke tuk-tuk dirt track

 

[Benny Bunter]

My job involves speaking into a microphone into a computer with voice recognition software, and you have to speak very clearly and robotically with clear definitions between each word, but often at high speed, otherwise you get all sorts of misrecognitions. Reading this poem out loud (or at least some sections of it) reminds me of this.

 

[Benny Bunter]

It's a sort of weird anti-flow. Not natural speech but you have to keep the momentum up.

 

[sufi]

It's a sort of weird anti-flow. Not natural speech but you have to keep the momentum up.

keep on pedalling

 

[Benny Bunter]

keep on pedalling

Yeah exactly! I'm a subtitler, so I'm wearing headphones and parroting what I hear back into the software, so you have no time to pause and often all sorts of misrecognitions pop out inevitably cos you can never be 100 percent accurate and often you can't keep up. So that's another thing that ties in with this poem with the autocorrect and that.

LASAGNE

 

[luka]

It's a sort of weird anti-flow. Not natural speech but you have to keep the momentum up.

yes thats right it demands precise enunication and percussive rhythm

 

[luka]

its very hard to read aloud but if you do read it aloud people understand it. they go, oh, that is actually a poem, its really good. whereas if you
show them on the page they go wtf its just words

 

[Benny Bunter]

I can read it aloud very well, I've been trained!

 

[luka]

its very percussive, lots of momentum built up in certain sections, really gathers pace and force

 

[luka]

thats partly why a lot of people say its better than prynne

 

[Benny Bunter]

thats partly why a lot of people say its better than prynne

I was gonna say, particularly with Prynne's later stuff where it's "just a load of words on a page" (arguably) there's a similar thing going on but it's not always successful and often not that much fun to read aloud, but this one of yours really works in that way.