roachboy

i dunno about this, comrade.
for example, "rock n roll" culminated lyrically in iggy stooge's immortal line "now i wanna be your dog." it says many things in the context of the stooges song. is it a great lyric? situationally, i think it is. on the page--well, take a look.

some of the most interesting poet/performers do sound poetry. (think the four horsemen)
sound poetry is self-evidently performance material.
i'm not sure where or how that'd fit into this thread.
does it matter really how it reads on the page?

this in the end loops back onto the topic itself---how do you balance performance-oriented vs visually oriented poetry?
seems to me that you're subordinating the former to the latter---which reflects an aesthetic preference, i assume--but can you really do that in the context of asking about song lyrics?
i would think that performance criteria would be more central than would its function/value on the page.

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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear

it make you sick.

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