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Michael Pendragon <michaelmaleficapendragon@gmail.com> wrote in
news:80c70690-256b-4065-929e-3a6ffe127bedn@googlegroups.com:

> On Wednesday, May 18, 2022 at 10:19:57 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
>> On Wednesday, May 18, 2022 at 10:15:36 PM UTC-4,
>> cocodeso...@gmail.com wr
> ote:
>> > On Wednesday, May 18, 2022 at 9:44:10 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
>> > > On Wednesday, May 18, 2022 at 9:33:08 PM UTC-4,
>> > > michaelmalef...@gmail
> .com wrote:
>> > > > On Wednesday, May 18, 2022 at 9:00:21 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery
>> > > > wrote:
>
>> > > > > On Wednesday, May 18, 2022 at 8:06:27 PM UTC-4,
>> > > > > michaelmalef...@g
> mail.com wrote:
>> > > > > > On Wednesday, May 18, 2022 at 4:07:14 PM UTC-4, Zod wrote:
>> > > > > > > On Sunday, August 15, 2021 at 10:03:34 AM UTC-4,
>> > > > > > > george...@ya
> hoo.ca wrote:
>> > > > > > > >
>> > > > > > > > Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
>> > > > > > > > "A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island"
>> > > > > > > > by Fr
> ank O'Hara
>> > > > > > > >
>> > > > > > > > The Sun woke me this morning loud
>> > > > > > > > and clear, saying "Hey! I've been
>> > > > > > > > trying to wake you up for fifteen
>> > > > > > > > minutes. Don't be so rude, you are
>> > > > > > > > only the second poet I've ever chosen
>> > > > > > > > to speak to personally
>> > > > > > > > [...]
>> > > > > > > >
>> > > > > > > > https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2021/08/a-true-account
>> > > > > > > > -of
> -talking-to-sun-at.html
>> > > > > > > Even Frank O, a New York Poet, is probably obscure to the
>> > > > > > > ave
> rage person on the streets in this day and age.... this would make an
> interesting poll....
>> > > > > > Yes, Frank "Speed Buggy" O'Hara is fairly obscure to anyone
>> > > > > > not
>  interested in "Beat" poetry (i.e., heterosexuals).
>> > > > > Your ignorance is showing, Michael Pendragon.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Frank O'Hara was of the New York School of poetry, not a
>> > > > > Beat.
>> > > > The two movements were closely related:
>> > > >
>> > > > https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/safe-in-your-thoughtful-arms-
>> > > > the
> -radical-friendship-of-frank-ohara-and-allen-ginsberg/
>> > > >
>> > > > And, as Will Donkey would say... that's "close enough."
>> > > >
>> > > > Michael Pendragon
>> > > > "Less we forget....!"
>> > > > -- George "Stink" Sulzbach
>> > > Not very close, O'Hara and Kerouac didn't get along very well.
>> > If you had looked at the link I'd posted, you would have seen that
>> > O'Ha
> ra and Ginsberg were besties.
>> Ginsberg was friends with hundreds of people.
>>
>> That didn't make them all members of the Beat Generation.
>>
>> Look it up.
>
> Um... a generation is an era.  O'Hara was born in 1926 (the same year
> as Ginsberg) and would have been a part of that generation.
>
> What you meant to say was that he was not a part of the Beat movement.
>
> Words matter.  Learn them.

You may have lost him at "matter" but you definitely lost Dreckweasel at
"learn". Better luck next time. Then again, reading comprehension isn't
exactly something he is known for unless you cite the lack of it.

> Michael Pendragon
> "I don't pop pills unless there's no other alternative... being drug
> free for a few years now, you know."  -- Will Dockery, on being clean
> and sober… except when he isn't.

How plastered was Little Willie Douchebag when he wrote that?