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See if you can spot the subversive subtext...
This is something I wrote a few years ago to protest censorship imposed on a site that was supposed to serve as a public writer's forum. In the end, the "corporate mentality" of the site's administrators made for an environment that true artists could no longer tolerate. The site was writtenbyme, and the domain was purchased around the end of 2001 by an Australian company called Conexim. I don't think this poem made that happen; I think it was that so many of their writers left.
So have fun finding the filthy phrases. 
anode, cathode
On my cul-de-sac, lit at night
by unseeing blinding eyes that
nevertheless
allow me to see and
allow you to see me,
and maybe that's why I don't feel
safe in the suburbs.
So I scrawl
on the stucco wall
incomplete sentences,
but though fragmented,
still somehow seem smooth;
as smooth as literary similies
like sibilant silk;
don't you want to pucker up and
kiss my assonance
on your computer screen?
That should alert you to my
alliterative tendencies.
But because my sentences are
fragmented, you think my mind
must be; so shocking,
but karma insists
that what shocks must also
be shocked.
Balance my electric anodic kick
with eclectic cathodic kitsch;
perhaps the spark won't arc,
but that's about as likely as
an Indic Kremlin.
So shocking. So what?
So stop sucking up to those
degreed dictators, those
perverted purveyors of
pseudoknowledge; listen
and learn a lesson from life.
Even the English professor knows
you as the campus sycophant.
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| March 1, 2007, 04:09 |
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Re: See if you can spot the subversive subtext...
Ya got a beautiful mind dear, and I hate to edit your post about censorship...the internet is not censored, but each website on the net has its own rules, guidelines (or lack of them) and it's totally understandable that a website administrator can decide what to edit and censor on his/her/their own website.
I can say that this site has adapted some rules due to past bad experiences, for instance the no politics or religion rule for the forums. That rule came about because some could not keep their "debates" contained to one thread topic, they instead carried their strong feelings all over the site, all over the forums, and into the chatroom and this sites personal messaging system, sometimes in a harrassing and threatening way.
I'm editing your website address you have posted, it's this sites rule not to allow any web addresses or urls in the forums. We do mention the name of a website sometimes, when it's for something like tech help, etc...and we only mention the name so it can be searched as a keyword.
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| March 10, 2007, 13:58 |
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Re: See if you can spot the subversive subtext...
Let me add, I would be the first to encourage you to possibly start up your own website for writers. A site where you could completely control with a "no censorship rule"
You do appear to have passion and talent, for sure!
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