The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 01 Oct 08 - 03:58 PM

oooh, I'm going home to New Jersey in a few weeks - I'll be buying some salt water taffy!

(I do hope that WAV's draconian immigration policies won't be adopted in my absence, preventing my return - I've got a festival to programme.)

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 01 Oct 08 - 05:29 PM

Hollywood, New Jersey, Sidmouth...a jetset Prudhoe Pixie/Ruth.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 01 Oct 08 - 06:14 PM

And Lincolnshire. But I don't travel on a shoestring.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
From: catspaw49
Date: 01 Oct 08 - 08:14 PM

Its hard to get good seating on a shoestring. Airliners generally have larger seats and are more comfortable.

Wavy probably likes it though..................

Spaw

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
From: GUEST,Volgadon
Date: 02 Oct 08 - 07:46 AM

Took the words right out of my mouth, spaw. Not only are airliners bigger and more comfortable, you don't trip over them either.

Anyway Wav, I would hardly apply the term jetset to places like Newark, Camden, Bergensfield and JC.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
From: catspaw49
Date: 02 Oct 08 - 10:56 AM

John and Iris freely say, like George and Tammy before them, "We're Not The Jetset"

Spaw

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 02 Oct 08 - 12:47 PM

(NOT the Weekly Walkabout)
Poem 19 of 230: JET

With time-based rail passes,
    As many youth still do,
I caught the trains through Europe -
    A good time it was, too.

But, late one night in summer,
    I ran full-on in vain,
Through quiet streets in Paris,
    To catch the London train.

And, at that Paris station,
    They closed the doors throughout,
For cleaning through the morning,
    Insisting - stragglers out.

So it was that a few of us
    Spent the night on the street,
And, I do declare to you,
    It left young me dead beat.

Yet there are many stragglers,
    Within the human domain,
Spending all their nights as such -
    While others own a plane!

From walkaboutsverse.741.com

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 02 Oct 08 - 01:03 PM

Oh, but it's all glamour in south Jersey, Volgadon.

*ROFL*

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
From: GUEST,Volgadon
Date: 02 Oct 08 - 01:33 PM

Wav, under your regulationist regime (what a silly term), how would you prove that YOU aren't a capitalist immigrant.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
From: catspaw49
Date: 02 Oct 08 - 07:41 PM

Well Vol, he seems to be unemployed. Does that count?   Maybe he's trying to get work as a blowboy by showing his TECHNIQUE using a recorder as a substitute.

What does that pay in the UK? And is there more work there than in Oz? Here in the States, both sexes can make a pretty fair annual pay at it. Say Wavyflabbus, are you self-employed or is your mother in business with you?

Just playin' the dozens here............

Spaw

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
From: s&r
Date: 03 Oct 08 - 03:14 AM

WAV that poem contains several of the worst poetic lines I've ever read. Top of the awful tree is

And, I do declare to you,
    It left young me dead beat.


And just for me try getting rid of the commas dotted here and there like currants in a bun.

Stu

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
From: GUEST,Joe P at work
Date: 03 Oct 08 - 04:22 AM

What I dont understand is that if someone wants a job then they can usually find a job. I found a job here in Hull on the day I wanted to start, in the field I wanted to work in.

Surely someone with both academic and technical qualifications should be able to find SOMETHING? Join an agency maybe?

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
From: GUEST,We Subvert Koalas
Date: 03 Oct 08 - 05:07 AM

And, at that Paris station, they closed the doors throughout,
For cleaning through the morning, insisting - stragglers out.
So it was that a few of us spent the night on the street,
And, I do declare to you, it left young me dead beat.

Structured like this, one could very well sing it to the old Mutton Pie melody and stick a fol-the-diddly-dido / fol-the-diddle-day chorus after it too. Also, anything that fits Mutton Pie (and quite a few things do) also fits the tune of the Holy Modal Rounders' Same Old Man. Otherwise, it's the sort of thing one might smile at if one found it anonymously scrawled on the door of public toilet - which isn't to taint public toilet folk verse by associating it with WAV's drivel, rather to suggest a more appropriate context for it. The dynamic sense of the thing in terms of narrative is entirely mired by the sentimental superfluity of the last verse as the poet vainly struggles to connect his subjective misery to the wider issues of the objective world that so constantly, and consistently, elude him. Or is that the point (one can't help but wonder)? If so, such noble sentiments are but the flotsam on the tide of a manifest bitterness of personal failure and general inconsequence that pervades his work as a whole and is the root and cause of its expressed racism. Even his desolate cry of I love the world being multicultural is one of the misanthropic outsider cast adrift in a search for the centre of his own little universe wherein he, and his Life's Work, is all that matters. Whatever the case, in Poem 19 of 230, Walkaboutsverse has provided himself with the perfect epitaph: A Straggler in the Human Domain.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 03 Oct 08 - 06:26 AM

"Wav, under your regulationist regime (what a silly term), how would you prove that YOU aren't a capitalist immigrant." (Volgadon)...birth certificate, passport.
To Stu and WSK/How much can a koala bear? - you may, then, be pleased to know that poem 19 of 230 did NOT become one of my Chants from Walkabouts. But as for "bitterness of personal failure" (WSK)...I'm quite content with my 4 techinical certificates, BA in humanities, travel through 40 countries, A-grade junior sports trophies, etc., thanks pal; also many of my poems were written when I had both a job and a partner; and, to Joe P, maybe from my next interview I will indeed get the job, instead of "Why ON EARTH did you come back?"/"You must be mad!"/"Most people go the other way!", because not everyone takes that attitude.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
From: catspaw49
Date: 03 Oct 08 - 07:35 AM

Maybe you have no job because you interview poorly. If you're anything at all in an interview as you seem to be around here, its no wonder you're unemployed! When asked a question in the interviews, do you quote from your "Life's Work" and ramble on ad nauseum about your single degree and forklift prowess?

Have you considered your lack of employment may simply be because you come off as such a complete asshole in your interviews? I can easily see how it could be the problem.

Spaw

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
From: GUEST,Ralphie
Date: 03 Oct 08 - 08:28 AM

666
Go Figure

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
From: GUEST,Ralphie
Date: 03 Oct 08 - 08:30 AM

WAV....
You had a partner?

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
From: GUEST,Volgadon
Date: 03 Oct 08 - 08:38 AM

"Wav, under your regulationist regime (what a silly term), how would you prove that YOU aren't a capitalist immigrant." (Volgadon)...birth certificate, passport.

How does that prove anything?
All that proves is that it is easier for you to be a cap. immigrant.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
From: catspaw49
Date: 03 Oct 08 - 08:41 AM

A capitalist immigrant who can't get a job...........

Spaw

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 03 Oct 08 - 12:16 PM

I'm an English repat, Volgadon, actually born the day Alf Ramsey's English team won the world cup, thanks. And, Catspaw, I do of course keep my political mouth shut at interviews, but am not so sheepish re. my fork lift truck licence, as one never knows when the usual fork lift driver may not be available.
And fancy Ralphie posting at 666!

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
From: catspaw49
Date: 03 Oct 08 - 01:29 PM

No forklift opening huh? Or are you doing better on the dole?

Spaw

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
From: GUEST,Volgadon
Date: 03 Oct 08 - 01:43 PM

I don't think any government gives a tinkers dam WHAT day you were born on. How do you prove that you emigrated from Australia to England on idealistic grounds? For all they know you are an Australian (after all, you lived most of your life there) who 'returned' to the motherland for financial gain.
Maybe all immigrants born on the day that Ramsey's team won the cup should be let into England.....

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 03 Oct 08 - 01:53 PM

Volgadon - you have picked all manner of bones with me but, fair go mate!, as an Aussie may say, I'm AN ENGLISH REPATRIATE: left at 3, RETURNED at 30.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
From: GUEST,Volgadon
Date: 03 Oct 08 - 02:11 PM

Answer the question, mate.
We all know you returned at 30, but why did you return?
How do you PROVE that you emigrated from Australia to England on idealistic grounds? For all they know you are an Australian (after all, you lived most of your life there) who 'returned' to the motherland for financial gain.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 03 Oct 08 - 04:43 PM

Volgadon - It occurred after studying "Pre-Colonial Aboriginal Society"; "Aborigines and the State", etc.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
From: GUEST,Volgadon
Date: 03 Oct 08 - 05:11 PM

What occured?

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
From: GUEST,Joe P
Date: 03 Oct 08 - 06:22 PM

So you 'returned' to the UK so that you could give land back to the Aboriginal people of Australia?

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
From: catspaw49
Date: 03 Oct 08 - 07:17 PM

Why do I smell another covert racism post about to occur?

And btw Wavypeaballs, Alf Ramsey molested Cocker Spaniels then sent them to your mother..........

Spaw

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 04 Oct 08 - 04:14 AM

THE WEEKLY WALKABOUT, E.G.

Poem 2 of 230: WALKABOUT WITH MY PEN

Once drove an old sedan, up north,
    From a place in Sydney to Cairns;
Then to Kuranda I went forth,
    By train, to look without set plans.

I browsed through the trendy market,
    With fresh fruits of tropical kind;
Walked to the creek through lush thicket -
    Nature's hand giving peace of mind.

I dined in a scenic cafe;
    Then, outside, as I wrote for yen,
Some passing Kooris called-out: "Hey,
    You go walkabout with your pen."

Request or question, I don't know -
    Assured voices, elderly men.
That's now several years ago,
    And I've seen the world - with my pen.

From walkaboutsverse.741.com
Or have a listen to it sung on myspace.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
From: s&r
Date: 04 Oct 08 - 05:03 AM

Oh everyone do listen to the above. Wav - I listened, and I thank you for the best belly laugh I have had for months.

Poetry it isn't. Song it isn't. It is wonderful comedy - honestly.

If you're not an intentional comic you should be.

Musically lacking, with the most tortured non-English stress patterns I have ever read or heard, it is the height of unintentional(?) farce.

I thank you sir for the tears of laughter; for the ache of the laughing muscles in my stomach, for the almost dislocated jaw and for the hyperoxygenation that can only come from the best act of the best comedians.

Are you real or are you an invented persona?

Stu

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 04 Oct 08 - 06:00 AM

..with a range of MC to B (newly worked out via playing a line, singing a line, playing a line...on my beloved English flute), it's one of 17 CHANTS from Walkabouts, Stu.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
From: catspaw49
Date: 04 Oct 08 - 09:11 AM

LMAO.....oh that's rich.....

Wavy has hit a new low!!!! This is a must listen and stu tells it like it is.

Wav, I don't know about MC to B but I can safely say your talents run the entire range from A to B................well, maybe not................maybe just A to A...............You really do suck.

Spaw

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
From: catspaw49
Date: 04 Oct 08 - 09:33 AM

Ya' know I'm not sure which particlar disastrous part of that piece (of shit) had me laughing the most but I have decided the word "tropical" is my choice. Tro-Pee-Kull?

On an overall basis though the singing itself outdoes all else in comedic value but as an individual laugh I'll go with tropical.

Spaw

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 04 Oct 08 - 01:00 PM

Sorry it's really not your beef Stu nor Spaw...but, remember, these things are subjective.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
From: GUEST,Volgadon
Date: 04 Oct 08 - 02:42 PM

Wav, how do you prove to the immigration authorities that your motives were pure?

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 05 Oct 08 - 05:29 AM

Testing, Volgadon.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
From: GUEST,Volgadon
Date: 05 Oct 08 - 05:54 AM

Come in, WAV, do you read me, WAV?
Wav, how do you prove to the immigration authorities that your motives were pure?

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
From: catspaw49
Date: 05 Oct 08 - 07:27 AM

He used his mother as a reference. Well known to the authorities, she was like a fine shotgun......two cocks and she blows! They could always count on her because just like a Liberian tanker, she went down all the time.

Spaw

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 05 Oct 08 - 12:13 PM

Me, Volgadon - nothing as I repatriated, with my passport and birth-certificate; and get off that catnip, Catspaw, and wash your foul mouth out of it.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 05 Oct 08 - 12:16 PM

S&R - Isn't that the one that has the "hoo-hoos" in it? That's the part where the tears of laughter were running down my face.

I'd still like to know how exactly WAV feels he's benefitting "good English culture" by emigrating here - sorry, repatriating - only to become dependent on the state.

Do you not feel guilty in telling people like me that we oughtn't to be here when my hard work and money are keeping you?

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
From: GUEST,Volgadon
Date: 05 Oct 08 - 12:48 PM

Ah, but Wav, why should repatriates be any different, especially if they lived most of their lives outside of their native land?

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 05 Oct 08 - 01:39 PM

"Hoo-hoos", Ruth, follow the words called out to me; the whistling follows the on-the-move words; and the humming follows the mention of "peace of mind". And, believe it or not, some have liked "Walkabout with my Pen".
Also, as I've said, maybe next time from an interview I'll get the job instead of "Why ON EARTH did you come back"/"You must be mad", etc.
And at least now, Volgadon, you've accepted the fact that I am a repat., if not, presently, a very successful one.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
From: GUEST,Volgadon
Date: 05 Oct 08 - 01:51 PM

But you have refused to answer my question, which is obviously uncomfortable.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
From: s&r
Date: 05 Oct 08 - 01:54 PM

Honestly WAV I don't think anyone gives a hoot what part of Australia you come from, or why.

Many of us would enjoy reading your poetry if you edited it and revised it and removed the suspect ideas. We might even make suggestions as to how it could be improved (steady now everyone before you suggest ways).

I hope you get a job. I hope you earn a lot.

Your employer might require you to learn new skills....

Please talk to a good singer and ask his/her advice.

Please send you poetry to a publisher other than a vanity publisher.

Please stand for Parliament.

Please join a morris team

Please don't buy any more commas from the comma shop


Au revoir

Stu

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 05 Oct 08 - 02:36 PM

So, having asked on the ENMU thread, it does seem to be Stu the teacher who left England for France - repatriate, pal, and we can have a go at "The Tyne Exiles Lament"...and dedicate it to Volgadon!
Also, do you think the Evening Chronicle, NE Poetry Journal, etc., are "vanity publishers" Stu...?

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
From: GUEST,Volgadon
Date: 05 Oct 08 - 02:47 PM

I like the song, but please, learn HOW to sing before hurling it at m.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 05 Oct 08 - 06:41 PM

"Also, do you think the Evening Chronicle, NE Poetry Journal, etc., are "vanity publishers" Stu...?"

Please list here, without linking to your bloody website, all of the publishers who have PAID YOU for your work. An equivalent PAID gig list would be very welcome.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
From: s&r
Date: 05 Oct 08 - 07:05 PM

I was published in the Red Star penny a word page at eight years old. It was poetry. I earned enough to go to the pictures.

I do not include it in my CV.

For interest: From the North East Poetry Journal Rules

Editorial Policy


*Poems are accepted in good faith to be the work of the named persons; the views they express are theirs alone.

*Poems must not be offensive or incite racial and religious hatred.

*Spelling mistakes, poor grammar, and misuse of punctuation marks are corrected as a matter of course.

*Poems are reviewed sensitively; changes are made only when absolutely necessary.

*No further permission will be sought from the poets prior to publication. However, if you wish to see a pre-print copy of your poems, please send a stamped self-addressed envelope when submitting your poems.

*Since the Journal caters for poets living in the North East, please make sure to state your location.

*The Poetry Journal can be downloaded from the Internet free of charge. If wish to buy a copy, please make your cheque for £3.50 payable to Lanchester Community Association.

Hardly a National then

Stu

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
From: s&r
Date: 05 Oct 08 - 07:13 PM

As of today this page has been visited 57 times It contains some poems. It can be downloaded free of charge.

Stu

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 05 Oct 08 - 07:47 PM

So they publish everything that's submitted.