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"I was met with the poet’s greatest enemy; indifference."
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John Cooper Clarke"Not only do I not have a mobile phone, I havent got a computer. I dont employ any artificial intelligence of any kind. People say to me, "Oh, you should have a computer, they can do this...." I say "Look, I know how fuckin great they are. Thats why, thats the very reason I cant have one." You know Ill just watch a bit of Dion and the Belmonts, then Ill go out...oh, no, what was that Elvis film....oh that reminds me, that Grace Kelly movie...Ill just download this Marx Brothers clip. You know what I mean, Id never get out of the fuckin house. Id fuckin die. Youd find me dead with a pizza box with mi arse in the air and mi pants round mi ankles in front of a flickerin fuckin computer screen. He never went out when we bought him that computer, he never went out again, he never went through the fuckin door. The milk stopped being delivered and he fuckin died."
John Cooper Clarke, also known as JCC and "The Bard of Salford", is an English performance poet and comedian who was often referred to as a "punk poet" in the late 1970s. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, he released several albums and performed on stage with punk and post-punk bands and has continued to write and perform since. The title of his first poetry anthology, Ten Years in an Open Necked
"I was met with the poet’s greatest enemy; indifference."
"It was quite a tough school. Put it this way, we had our own coroner."
"All my life, all I wanted to be was a professional poet. To me being a professional poet was better than notching up a hat trick at Old Trafford.....You get to wear fine clothes and perfume and nobody pulls you up on it. You get out of bed late in the day and nobody calls you a lazy bastard. A state of reverie and the virtue of idleness are paramount. Any poet will tell you this."
"You can count on him. Hell always let you down."
"[Luxury item] A boulder of opium twice the size of my own head."
"Do not go mental, and with that, goodnight."