Thursday, October 19, 2023

IT'S THE LACK OF CADENCE THAT REVEALS THE UNPOETIC STAMMERER, EVEN WITH A MOUTHFUL OF PEBBLES

Like gravel in my bedding...Clyde Bergstresser, talking about the "Khashoggi Case"...I was counting all his distracting "uh's",,,,,,60/sec...as he searched for words..."he..uh..was..uh..well...you know..uh..like..uh..you..uh..know..uh..what I'm sayin'..huh" Poets are so aware of cadence and the structural components of language......Listen to Cate Blanchett speak, for example.......every sound uttered, has intentional meaning......The 'Bergstressers' are just hooking onto our attention for a free ride to their next ill-chosen words, with their chains of irrelevant interjections....

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