Thomas Lynch
Thomas Lynch
eventually generally jump lazy means oriented task
I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll make the effort.
bare believers compelling ethics fact matter sounds strikes true
It strikes me that after all the archbishops and politicos and true believers have their say on the ethics of the matter of euthanasia, bare fact sounds very compelling and very challenging.
against authority cox people run unknown
It's not that I'm against Cox and the people who run Cox right now. We don't want to give that much authority to an unknown company, No. 1.
This is what it's like to be God.
corpse correct
It is not enough to be a corpse any more. Now, you have to be a politically correct corpse.
itself pair shape takes
Usually a poem takes shape accoustically - a line or a pair of lines will repeat itself in my ear.
funerals interested mourning people
I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one.
life
Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.
instinct
The instinct to preplan has been around for a long time.
sex grief emotional
Well the themes for me were and remain sex and love and grief and death - the things that make us and undo us, create and destroy, how we breed and disappear and the emotional context that surrounds these events.
effort language situation
So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.
deeds doing-you knows
... by doing you shall know What it is you have to do.
utterance way hobbies
But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.
writing sublime important
If I were assigned poems I suppose I'd write more of them but it is entirely voluntary and for the most part ignored in the market sense of the word so the language to me is most intimate, most important, most sublime and most satisfying when it gets done.