I noticed that
my bookshop poem Bookshop in Writewood has responses
concerning my description of an Orrey but unfortunately more wiseacre
critics than readers
" It made
wonder what you was writing about,
is it a real bookshop, where is it " and a more incessant
comment "You called an Orrey
a "Planetesium, You are making up
incorrect Astronomy terms! the correct word is Planetarium ??!!"
-Since when has an
Orrey been a Planetarium. I thought it
was a teaching aid clockwork toy
named after the populariser The Earl of Orrey .
The Orrey could just
have easily been popularised by the Grand Graf
of Westernberger Blonken
Sonderdonden Clattersberg
Planetesium is poetic symbolic of scale planetessimal not
pedantic phrasology.
Proving that no one actually reads my poems one of my widely published and read poems
on at least two forums and on this blog is Dauntless Dick Dark Dee Dee
the romantic poem about the highwayman romance (which is one of my June posts here on writingbitofpoetry )
Dauntless Dick Dark Dee Dee
has been banned on one poetry site and my
poem deactivated for that sole
reason
that it is a poem
about Dick !!Turpin !
yes D---K Turpin Highwayman and the D---K word came up on the publishing sites filter software
doubtful the publisher ever even read the poem as it
has no illicit content.
this is their email to me as it
appears read via my filter software
"Your poem
contains the following types of content, or has violated the rules of
posting and it is removed from the site.
The reason of removal was;
1) P******gr*phy and S*****ually Expl*cit Cont*nt
2) s*****ual Sol*****ion/Cybers******
Our administration reserve the right to remove any material
deemed to be excessively offensive, hostile, or destructive"
I just altered D---K to Dark and reposted
Four job applications
going nowhere even in adult education
for job roles I once performed to the
exact criteria needed on the form but nothing
in response
one interview where
the interview panel waited three
days in tell me I was
unsuccessful but had some experience as
trainer but not in the job role
of development worker
Two weeks after
closing date have passed for the other jobs and within two
weeks after the closing date the
interviews were held -so hard
luck on my part that is the hard thing about redundancy you
work solidly for years and
years and then
you are made redundant to find
that jobs even with all years experience in your favour never
materialise
looks like a former
teacher of employability skills and ICT will end up long term unemployed
perhaps I should teach creative writing and
fortune telling instead
The UK chancellor has
a brilliant idea supported by the loud
press to name every benefit
claimant on an online
list so people can
see it their neighbours are claiming and for how long !!
suppose I will be registered
under R for reason
for leaving employment
=Redundancy
likewise will there
be a list of every bribe and back
hander politicians receive ?
oddly enough all these interview setbacks do not trouble me as I know
I will get back into the Education racket but every interview setback creates self doubt
that only ever affects my poetry writing for about a day afterwards
Pity it was a more
fruitful time for poetry
writing than job applications
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