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I HOARD;I COLLECT; I RESCUE THE REMNANTS/THE PRECIOUS THINGS. THEREFORE, I AM. BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on June 16, 2020 by decayetude

A POEM! {FREE VERSE….ish } I Collect ALL things; I represent multitudes (of Lps and books and cds); I am reparative; I give all these phantasmagorical lovely things their rightful place in eternity; I save the traces of precarious capitalism. … Continue reading →

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THE BATTLES I FIGHT…WRITING EXERCISE (and more?):GRADUALLY SLINKING TOWARDS THE POST/ASLANT COVID NARRATIVE(S).THE PRELUDE(BOOK, ABOUT 7).BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on May 3, 2020 by decayetude

PHOBIAS(other peoples’s): polite word for dislike(occasionally, hatred); sometimes, a fear:”Ohh, wtf, that might be ME; I might be secretly like THAT; I better be nasty to them….” HOMO TRANS BI CAMP NON-GENDER BINARY   WELFARE BENEFITS CLAIMANTS; economically poor people … Continue reading →

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WRITING EXERCISE…. AND MORE.WHAT MAKES MY METRONOME WORK AND NOT WORK(“RIDERS”/”DRIVERS”).HOW CAN I USE THIS IS IN MY POST-COVID UNREAL/REAL OLD/NEW REALITY SERIES OF NARRATIVES? .BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on April 22, 2020 by decayetude

Let’s see where this goes….. As gay men, we made/make our (ever-changing/growing/receding{sometimes, in Covid time; occasionally expanding even then/now}REALITY…. to various degrees, depending on various macro and micro life /geographical configurations(and there is some choice in it, if we are … Continue reading →

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TWO GAY TRAIN-SPOTTERS.FICTION IS TRUTH.BY STEVEN BENSON.

Posted on January 30, 2020 by decayetude

He {the ersatz Sebaldian narrator}collected railway numbers, aka a train-spotter(Though he was higher than that in the train afficianado’s hierarchy, because he also liked railway STATIONS). Back in the ’80s. He traversed Welsh rail-tracks, meandering manically from Aberystwyth to Cyffordd … Continue reading →

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MORITZ MOSZKOWSKI:A PAEAN. BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on November 22, 2019 by decayetude

Moritz, you Gay-ify The dull World, with Your harmonic Twists and Turns.   I lOVE YOU; (And your Music); My fave F O R G O T T EN Composer.   Forsaken By the Musical Self-pro Claimed “Est-ab-lish-ment”. But NOT … Continue reading →

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NIGHT-TIME FLANERIE.AN ADVENTURE IN TIME AND PLACE.BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on August 31, 2019 by decayetude

It was the last summer Bank Holiday Sunday of the year…………. One of Liverpool’s(short-lived) lgbt nightclubs was closing….forever We were, it seemed, in that Martin Scorcese New York film, where the passive protagonist walks around, by night; and had various … Continue reading →

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IN/ON THE BRINK.A HODGE-PODGE: TO BREAK WRITER BLOCK. BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on May 6, 2019 by decayetude

“The Brink” is a “dry” bar/cafe/venue in Liverpool; it is where recovering alcoholics- amongst other nomadic denizens- often dwell.   I feel at home there; but I feel slightly threatened too. ———————————————————————–   I will now try to re-boost my … Continue reading →

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PRIDE(LIVERPOOL):GAY/QUEER UTOPIA:MAKE IT REAL. MY THOUGHTS.DO WE GO THE DISTANCE? JULY 2018.BY STEVEN BENSON.

Posted on July 30, 2018 by decayetude

I mean I “get”, I support, and I applaud (Liverpool)Pride; especially the herculanean work by Organisers(all unpaid), especially in regard to huge difficulties obtaining a site this year (2018); all done, more or less, at the last minute. WHAT A … Continue reading →

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“WHO AM I TO WRITE ‘US’?”.”HOMO-HISTORIAN”. REFLECTIONS ON “SOHO”(SCOTT):LOOSE BAGGY, QUEER MONSTROUSNESS. BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on May 23, 2018 by decayetude

Quotations(above) from Richard Scott:”My Soho” in his new collection of poems “Soho”, 2018) Read this collection: Scott: self-styled(but insecure) “homo-historian”. I love that phrase:). He evokes-in his multi-layered, Whitmanesque (replete with long lines/enjambement) semi-poetry/semi-prose- the aporia of a gay man … Continue reading →

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THE QUEST FOR THE ULTIMATE LOOSE, BAGGY MONSTER;BOOKS, MUSIC,BUILDINGS.BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on May 22, 2018 by decayetude

Just bought “The Magus”(Fowles)….. I am entranced by these epic leviathans, what James called “large, loose, baggy monsters”. Episodic travails and traversals, digressive,rhizomatic, multiple (sub)plots( some need a dramatis personae, a la Tostoi!); postmodern; contrapuntal narratives; you get my drift: … Continue reading →

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