Daniel E. O’Brien

If you’re an Outsider Artist focus on the ‘Art’ not the ‘Outsider’

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@pacificraft Bill, I think you need to write another poem about how much of the world’s creative effort right now is going into coming up with football tactics?

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@thwupbooks Hate to quibble with the word experts here, but your phrasing seems a little stretched. To say ‘everything’ from addiction to midlife crisis implies a contrast or range, when addiction and midlife crisis seem to me to come out of the same category and be fairly similar roadblocks

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@gorsebloom good way to decide what poems to put in your magazine

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A Day In Provence

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Saw kids in school uniform for the first time this year

‘Take me back to the place that I know
On the beach, yeah yeah
Down on the beach, yeah down on the beach’

- Chris Rea

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win though archaic / negotiated a place
on the board / walk theatre display

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If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller, Italo Calvino

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‘“Hey, let us past! Go do your hugging somewhere else! Shameless!” But the only way to elude the human landslide that is striking us would be to walk faster into the air, to fly….There: I, too, feel suspended as if over a precipice….’

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Natural

Change the name to / Wellington Bays
when you’re / gambling on a brochure

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Stacey Teague is sort of a true name if you are a poet

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Very hard to find definitive information online but presumably branches of banks in Auckland will be closed on Auckland Anniversary Day, while all banking app, internet banking, electronic transfers and settlements will be running. Money is almost redundant at this point

[Daniel E. O’Brien @DobicoDan]

Fun Facts

New Zealand has more coastline than China

Japan has more than USA

Canada has the most

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Romanesco

Broccoli on Sunday / randomness of the
universe / green branches of fractal

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Roofs

people in buildings / record player
in grooves / already in the past

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the goalkeeper was a tomboy called Janet
red-bearded men were months from the equinox

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A returned subachiever
who lives simultaneously
in his mum’s
basement
and her
attic
so he can be permanently
upside down

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orcas swim close to / the waterfront
the name of / a going cafe

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the heater objects / thermally like
medication / you forgot to take

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all the ghosts don’t / understand each
other as they / gather at the wall and wave

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Sometimes I go to Becky and Steve’s hotel room
In Vegas
They’re drunk after a nighta the bar
And the housemaid is calling to wash the linen