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TNA notes ( Why is it that TNA brings out my marky side )

Hee that was fun. I always enjoy it when I can forget the real world and lose myself in something.

Also Abyss's Black Hole is cool.
Why is it that in the midst of all these people who I really like, and know to be good, the two people I end up being totally ga-ga over are AMW?

Oh and if someone can remember this far back (2003) what's the deal with Goldylocks and Erik Watts? I missed the explanation but I'm sure there is one. Why is she suddenly rushing over and looking all worried around him?
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And for the Poetry Month thing, about which I have been unspeakably slack.

Half-Caste by John Agard Get Back Pimple 1966, published by Penguin.

Excuse me
standing on one leg
I’m half-caste
Explain yuself
wha yu mean
when yu say half-caste
yu mean when Picasso
mix red an green
is a half-caste canvas
explain yuself
wha yu mean
when yu say half-caste
yu mean when light an shadow
mix in de sky
is a half-caste weather
well in dat case
england weather
nearly always half-caste
in fact some o dem cloud
half-caste till dem overcast
so spiteful dem don’t want de sun pass
ah rass
explain yuself
wha yu mean
when yu say half-caste
yu mean tchaikovsky
sit down at dah piano
an mix a black key
wid a white key
is a half-caste symphony
Explain yuself
Wha yu mean
Ah listening to yu wid de keen
half of mih ear
Ah looking at yu wid de keen
half of mih eye
and when I’m introduced to yu
I’m sure you’ll understand
why I offer yu a half-a-hand
an when I sleep at night
I close half-a-eye
consequently when I dream
I dream half-a-dream
an when moon begin to glow
I half-caste human being
cast half-a-shadow
but yu must come back tomorrow
wid de whole of yu eye
an de whole of yu ear
an de whole of yu mind
an I will tell yu
de other half
of my story
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I've actually heard him read this live. He is so good. His other poems, the ones that I've heard, are fantastic as well.

We read it in school in an Anthology, it was part of a section called "Other Cultures and Traditions" which was definitely my favourite part of the whole thing. I could, and probably will, recommend most of the poems in that section. But this is definitely my favourite.