the unknown citizen

[DanNinjaMan]

This also helped me a lot with writing a paper. Hearing someone read it aloud helps a lot.

[pennilesscripple]

i'm glad, ninjaman. poems are meant to be heard out loud, and you have to listen to them more than once to really get them. best wishes with your paper.

[abadixx9]

thank very much ..for upload i have exam and this video help me a lot.

[pennilesscripple]

i'm happy to hear that

take care

[Kirilltraceur]

Hah..

I got the noose comparison/metaphor

Great poem and vid.!

[pennilesscripple]

thanks mate

[XaveJamesGrey]

Nice editing.  Bravo!

[DANE842]

Why have I not been getting these in my inbox? I thought you'd dropped off the map and missed the finesse with which you managed to skewer the culture. Welcome back to my field of view.

[pennilesscripple]

good to seeya, dane

i still keep my big toe in the youtube shark tank

and i see you around, dropping sane comments

[PhilosopherFresh]

Whoa, this was awesome!

5 ***** faved!

[pennilesscripple]

thank you

i enjoyed making it

nice to seeya :o)

[SpokenVerse]

Alfred Molina is one our greatest British actors. You might remember him as Doc Ock from Spiderman 2. This audio came from the Poetry Out Loud website, where you can find Anthony Hopkins reading Prufrock among others.

[pennilesscripple]

thank you, yes

i know, i ganked it from that site :P

great site

do you happen to know who the speaker is for the attached video, 'too much'? (Wordsworth's "The World is Too Much with Us.)

he's a famous British actor, but I can't remember which one, and i lost the box with the details on it (it's from an old tape).

i also made a video of louise erdrich's 'advice to myself' if you're interested

take care, and thanks for your fabulous readings--they're a real treat

[frumpyframpton]

Ironically, the other tabs I have up are about men's dress clothing. I've even been learning to tie a tie. Soon I'll be a hireable mass of conformity and will be able to get on with the puttering away of my adult life. Glad to see you back at it =]

[pennilesscripple]

oh, sad sad sad

next up: 'how to tie a noose'

nice to see you, frumpy

[dmio2]

Inspirational. I can only aspire to that level of drone-ness. Back to stacking bricks in an open field

[pennilesscripple]

just stay focused on your work, and don't pause to look at the big picture, and you'll get there, dmio. if that doesn't work, try pharmaceuticals and the mass media. :P

[not2tees]

As long as the Bureau of Statistics is happy, I'm happy.

[pennilesscripple]

oh tees you are such a good citizen!

[kevinthe1st]

Outstanding!

.....yet scary......

[lapislazuline]

i was just wondering where you were at...

been off dropping notes in the pyramid

i bet ;) ive got a number WK697978B i was assigned it when i got on the treadmill. arthur c clarke once wrote that

we should all have numbers and not names because that way we would all be

individuals....you know no pesky repetitions of peoples names....i think he

was talking out of his crack :)

[pennilesscripple]

nope i've been digging at the foundation, chipping away the mortar with my nail  file. could use some help....

always nice to see you WK697978B

[lapislazuline]

i have a large selection of shovels!

btw it was isaac asimov not arthur oopsie!

[softparade51]

great poem. thanks for the post pc. :)

[iamnotapoet]

Great video.... Sweetie & i love seeing vids like this.

-- Eric ZORK Alan & Sweetie [Professional poets & BED VLOGGERS]

-- iamNOTapoet . com

[pennilesscripple]

yeah it's a great poem

[themajikat]

Gorgeous!

[leone2tube]

Well, if that is'nt John!

you know....John?

John Doe....

exellent poem, great vid!

[pennilesscripple]

thank you

[LizBizToo]

oooooo....as he ties a knot around his neck..!

[michaelispan]

Well . I rate five stars.

[thesavedavechannel]

PC, i saved the text in a file to send him.

he will know about this as soon as the mail can get to him.

ty.

[pennilesscripple]

thank you for supporting him through this rough patch

[thesavedavechannel]

his soul is beautiful.

it is my pleasure.

[fckuvrymch]

holy crap.

[medicinesocks]

damn.

we should have heard.

well done miss c

[pennilesscripple]

yeah

and he should have shouted

[bbbleaver]

if anything was wrong, we would certainly of heard.

[zzz33333]

very, very, very, very good.

[ozjthomas]

Thanks, Penni, I like this poem a lot.

[pennilesscripple]

you're welcome oz

[ReliableInsider]

You make civilization sound like a -bad- thing.

Hmm. Maybe it is.

[pennilesscripple]

you have a spot on your tie

[ReliableInsider]

I wish these shirts weren't so constraining. This suit coat feels like a straitjacket.

[zzz33333]

haven't you seen that pennilesscripple video with the different doors? what's it called...?

it's like, behind one door there's lots of money and jet-skis and cancer and diabetes and 25,000 deaths from starvation every day and world war and nukes and rape and child abuse and did i mention nukes and rape and starvation and cancer and child abuse and suicide and...?

and then behind the other door there's a healthy community with healthy people on a healthy planet.

[zzz33333]

door 1 is civilization. what's so great about it???

[pennilesscripple]

"let's make a deal"

you're harshing peter's mellow. he prefers witty banter to real conversation.

because after all, life is all about escape and entertainment.