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Antonionioni

Email: baxter-t@o2.co.uk

Homepage: www.myspace/antonionionii

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Last blog entry: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 07:16:08 pm

Profile updated: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 08:49:19 am

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Biography

I write a sonnet every day about the news, booze, amusing, abusing, losing, snoozing and other stuff that rhymes with that. I have nowhere to post these at the moment, but sometimes I put them on MySpace. My old site, www.antonionioni.com is no accessible to me after I changed my email address (!) but it has them all from Sept 2006 to July 2009. I also do other poetry and the occasional play, short story or comedy, too. I have now started recording music, initially at home, but I will be going into recording studios soon. (The latest tracks are usually to be found on MySpace. Note the extra 'i' on the end of the URL.) I am not really a live performer by nature but sometimes I do turn up and do stuff live if I can be arsed!

I am based in Salford, only a short walk from Manchester city centre.

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Clones

This is the clone zone
All heads shaved to the bone
Cannon fodder out on loan
Before the roadside bomb has blown
See the bonehead
What the tattoo said
This is the dead zone
This is the clone zone

Sometimes

Some times are hard
like these times

Some times were even harder
like old times

Sometimes we complain
like these times

Some time we become plainer
unlike old times

Not-so-dear prudence

Hello there mate, how are ya? Not seen ya for a while.
What? Do I fancy goin’ somewhere for lunch?
Do I hell! Haven’t you heard of the credit crunch?

I don’t like shelling out
I don’t care if they’re selling out of everything
In the so-called sales
I’d rather spend my summers in Wales
In a tent halfway up Cader Idris
Than help out some other guy’s business
Staying under his roof
Paying for his food
New clothes to look good
Nah, not me!
I’ll have a near-naked lunch
One that’s almost free
One I’ve made myself
Out of Marmite sandwiches and tea

What’s that, mate? Can I give you a lift?
Nah, sorry mate, that car was drivin’ me over a cliff

Who needs a jam-jar?
Get on your bike
You won’t need to pay for gyms
You can kick out the jams
I’m peddling pedals here
It’s the end of expenditure
Here’s the deal, I’ll send it ya

You can’t bank on banks no more
The interest’s higher
In stayin’ sober
You’ll be rollin’ in it
If you don’t get stoned

If you wanna fall asleep prematurely
Do it for free and get yourself healthy
Boogie on down to the allotment
Save your salary, grow some celery
Don’t become a cabbage. Grow your own.
Don’t talk shit, just mix in some manure
Grow your own rhubarb
It’s not a scene for has-beens, so don’t do a runner
It’s where the future lies as you grow old and wise

Let’s not go to San Fran-Tesco’s
Less reasons to go to Morrisons’ Hotel
To hell with their out of town locations
Their car, bus and delivery-truck-friendly situations
Let’s not go to the Trafford Centre for the day
Let’s not blow what’s left of our pay
Let’s not fight our way through
The great tide of shit coming to meet us at it
Let’s not say ‘Get outta my way, or
I’ll hit you with my six carrier bags
Bag bag bag bag bag bag’

Okay, take care, mate
I know you’re gonna hate me
But things have changed a bit lately
Take care now
Take care

Sonnet 754 - Anthology

Reading successful poets’ self-pity -
But then they don’t make much - but if they did
As poets they’d still see skulls and debris -
It spurs me to emulate, lift my lid
Revealing wasp-infested stuff that’s hid
But it’s no different, apart from the art
A vase is a vase, a verse a verse. Bid
For one versus another and then part
With cash, but not much. Say thanks and depart
For they aren’t interested either in me
They teach subservience at schools - extra quid -
Belief systems and false gods that the smart
Materialist must ingest outwardly
Now fashion your passion as instructed

All poems are copyright of the originating author. Permission must be obtained before using or performing others' poems.

Last blog entry

Stella, you're a star

Posted on Tuesday 1st June 2010 7:16 pm

In the year 1366, Stella

Was first brewed in Leuven, Flanders, Belgium

In Britain it has been called ‘wife-beater’

A favourite tipple of violent chav scum

I sometimes buy it when the weekend comes

And drink it like a moron, getting pissed

Well, that’s what it’s for when all’s said and done

Especially when you know you won’t be kissed

Stella Artois comes high up in the list

Of famous beers exported all over

For centuries the horses pulled the drums

Along the rutted dusty tracks, through mist

And mud, the taverns full of fine fellas

Paying for troubles to be overcome

I know no-one's around right now, they're all out, doing things, but this sonnet is to commemorate Stella Artois, the Belgian beer - which incidentally is neither 'posh' (remember the ads, 'reassuringly expensive'?) nor the most popular lager in Belgium itself, but it hads always done well on the export market.

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Mingo Backhair

Mon 22nd Mar 2010 21:00

Hi there! Thanks very much for your comment. Sorry it has taken me so long to reply - I has been away on pirate business! Regards, Mingo.

Deborah Jordan

Wed 3rd Mar 2010 21:20

HI Tonionions, thank you for aaahing at my small reminder of my small cat. I'd like to thank you further by buying you some new glasses... that's all i can say..except..Rabbits...Debz x

spencer

Tue 16th Feb 2010 19:32

You can have your money back but I am not rubbing the cream in.
See you soon mate, are you coming over for the next open mike in my neck of the woods >?, your welcome anytime.

garside

Mon 1st Feb 2010 20:15

Hi Ant

thanks for your time and comment

steve x

stefan wilde

Sun 31st Jan 2010 22:54

A'kid-will you take a'snap'of me exiting your hole!into the jaws of death rode the six hundred-one was outta line-he got shot-they were not so hot-cos there were only five hundred and ninety nine-suck on that my fine four eyed softlad!-goodnight sweet child-Stefz

stefan wilde

Sun 31st Jan 2010 20:58

HEY! big A!what can I say re-'read this shit'but ta massively-I just gotta get into your poems and get my re-spex paid-like bigtime and seriously-I guess you could say I,m falling in love with you,you beautiful oaf!-MWOAH! Stefasdeffasjeff.

neil gardiner

Sun 31st Jan 2010 20:27

Hi Antonioni. Great poems. Like em all and ta a lot for your positive comments. Take care. Nells

Cat Parsons

Sun 31st Jan 2010 18:04

Hi Tony,
Thanks for your comment on 'Rainbow Bright'. I think it's evident, but it's about when my dad left home when I was a kid and how our relationship has been since.
See ya soon, Cat x

stefan wilde

Wed 20th Jan 2010 23:17

Dear antyonnyninnywotsit-you mean you slurped on two fresh russkies and could not even be bothered to share-especially with me being the winner of the *ucker prize for fings wot I rote! I,ll catch up with you when my trial for mass murder is witness tamperingly quashed-Stefalphonso C.

stefan wilde

Wed 20th Jan 2010 19:29

Hi antoioninpoioiniothingy(jest jesting)yes I too loved tinned russkies-had loads when I was just past being a little bubble from dads tinned plums-ta for the chortle!Stef-ps-are you sure those glasses fit-don,t make a spectacle of yourself-tee+hee

steve garside

Mon 28th Sep 2009 08:54

Hi Anthonioni

thanks for taking the time to read and make comment

steve x

Neil West

Sun 27th Sep 2009 18:11

Hi Antonionioni, I am pleased you read the work so far, I find your writing some of the most intersting and creative, you may be right in your criticism but there is an intended ambiguity about the time and place in the work as it confronts a universal issue. War personified is an ancient evil that has plagued humanity since its earliest inception. I feel the events take place somwhere in an alternate central Europe just before WWI as the old ideas of warfare as a getlemanly and honorouble settling of national differenceswere swept away by the horrors of mechanised genocide and nationalistic persecution.

Neil West

Wed 23rd Sep 2009 20:32

Thank you for the music? Thank you for the poem, Black Sabbath don't get mentioned in poems enough. I'm disappointed you don't like Iron Maiden but you seem to not like them so much it's quite charming if that makes any sense. You've brightened my evening again - thanks!

Deborah R Jordan

Wed 23rd Sep 2009 19:48

ta tonionions...before Feb?..oh..it ryhmes..ha ha..i was distracted by your glasses..have you shrunk? they seem a little oversized..shudda gon 2... u know the rest..
saw a couple of nice places today so hopefully...

maipenrai

Wed 23rd Sep 2009 09:31

Thanks Mate for your comments on "curtains"
Bernie

maipenrai

Wed 23rd Sep 2009 09:30

Thanks Mate for your comments on "it happened one night"
Bernie

nicky burrows

Mon 21st Sep 2009 11:26

Hi Antonioni,

Thanks for the comment, kind of makes us think of the pointlessness of it all, the suffering and inhumanity, and the fragility of existence that can be extinguished so quickly, in one foul blow.

Neil West

Sat 19th Sep 2009 20:27

Hi Antonionioni, thank you for your kind words, I can see from your profile photo you have a good eye for poetry (ho ho). I enjoyed reading your work too and followed to your blog. I was amazed, you must be one of the hardest working poets around. I enjoy the structure in your writing, it gives it a lot of musicality, I bet you rock when you perform!

Dave Bradley

Wed 16th Sep 2009 09:21

Hi Antonioni

I was going to thank you for commenting on mine but then thought, maybe it's pointless.

Look what you're doing to people! (-;

Daniel Hooks

Tue 15th Sep 2009 20:41

thanks for your comment on the poem pretender

Steve Mellor

Mon 14th Sep 2009 21:24

Hi Antonioni
Glad you enjoyed it.
It was 'inspired' by a comment in Discussions about the way new poets come on to the site, and then fade away.
By the way, what tricks did he do Ron, Ron, Ron?
ok, a pointless question.
I enjoy the sharp/brief shards you post
Steve M.

spencer

Mon 14th Sep 2009 21:06

Well thank you sir. I have an idea to bring this along , I have also started on a gritty short story kind of Philip Marlowe ish. Anyway I am glad you like some of the lines , sometimes when you tap away at the keyboard you kind of think -ehh, am I bonkers because I think this is OK ,I wonder if it has legs???.
Cheers
spencer

maipenrai

Sun 13th Sep 2009 20:31

Glad You liked "Them Downstairs"
Thanks.
Bernie

maipenrai

Sun 13th Sep 2009 20:29

Thanks Mate for your comment on "Scary Tale", it was Stephen King I was refering to, the Master Storyteller.
Bernie

spencer robertshaw

Sun 13th Sep 2009 17:20

Thank for looking at my work, but we are as a collective a little bit crap aren't we - the only way is to say something - but then some get upset , well what the heck.
A poet based in Salford, that's a pretty good place to get a few ideas from. Did you know there once was another poet down that way - Lenny Siberia , he is still going strong and I expect that you will.

Cat Parsons

Sat 12th Sep 2009 21:22

Hi! It's a little belated but thanks so much for your comments on 'that cough' it's great to see how differently it's been interpreted and the impact it has. Also thanks for your comment on 'lest we forget', I hope my silhouette isn't too dominating!
Thanks
Cat x

Jessie Alpal

Fri 11th Sep 2009 15:22

Thank you for your comment on my poem - Embryo. Im really enjoying looking through your work.

Jessie

Steve Smith

Thu 10th Sep 2009 13:19

Thanks for your comment Antonioni -it allowed me to read your sonnet 754 -Anthology - which I had missed.It is like smelling salts in a nutshell -pungent and awakening, a startling reward!
Steve Smith
Steve smith

Cate Greenlees

Thu 10th Sep 2009 09:49

Hi Antonionioni {what a mouthful of a name that is... I have to copy and paste it to get it right!!}
I could say in reply to your last comment "spoke like a true wit" but I wont cos these pun things can go on for ages!! lol
Thanks for taking the time to comment on For Whom The Wheel Turns. Much appreciated.
Cate xx

Janet

Wed 9th Sep 2009 11:12

Hi Antonionioni, thanks for your comment on haiku's. They weren't meant to be hard hitting, just honest and truthful.

Janet.x

winston plowes

Tue 8th Sep 2009 11:28

Hi Ant -

Thanks for your comments on Haiku drinks.
Se you soon.

Win

Steve Mellor

Sun 6th Sep 2009 12:16

Hi A. (may I be so bol)
Come on - be a man - own up. Do you pucker?
Steve M.

maipenrai

Sun 6th Sep 2009 09:37

Thanks Mate for your comments on "Silent Hours".
Bernie

Janet

Sat 5th Sep 2009 10:33

Hi Antonionioni,
nice to see you active on here again.
Some neat little poems you have posted too. Nice one.

Thanks for comment on Kinsella. You'll find the previous entry in the August blogs if you'd like to see it. :-)
Janet.x

maipenrai

Thu 3rd Sep 2009 16:34

Thanks Mate for your comments on "Pitiful Poets.
Bernie

Steve Mellor

Tue 1st Sep 2009 10:31

May I call you A?
Thanks for opinion. It was the sort of thing that was going thru' my mind. I actually made the gap bigger when I posted it.
Have I just disappeared up my own backside? Rhetorical!
Thanks
Steve M.

Steve Mellor

Tue 1st Sep 2009 07:56

Hi Antonionioni
Thanks for commenting. I wasn't sure whether I should have included the final line 'Bliss'.
What do you think? Superfluous to indicate my ignorance?
Steve M.

winston plowes

Sun 21st Jun 2009 22:16

Hi Antonionioni, thanks for reading ripped. Happy solstice, see you around Win

Trevor Wainwright

Sat 13th Jun 2009 16:34

Hi Antonioni: Thanks for your comments about Managementpot Tosspot, loved your one Clones.
Trev

Gus Jonsson

Wed 10th Jun 2009 22:01

Hi 'Toni
Thanks for the well thought out uot comment regarding My Grandfather, I was most encouraged.
Many Thanks again
Gus

Deborah R Jordan

Mon 8th Jun 2009 22:25

thank you Antonioninonio,
muchas gracias,
debz xxx

Christine Dawson

Fri 5th Jun 2009 10:49

Foreign films? I don't know what you mean! I used no sub-titles!
Thanks for reading and your comments,
Cx

Bill Kelly

Thu 21st May 2009 14:57

You're spot on about great minds. It's just a shame that the piggies harm the reputations of the decent people who are trying to do a proper job.

Melissa R. Mendelson

Tue 12th May 2009 17:59

I hope you do add music to your portfolio soon. You are a very talented writer and poet. :)

Melissa

Gus Jonsson

Thu 23rd Apr 2009 12:24

Hey ho Tone
The Medina is The name of the river that splits east from west on the Isle of Wight...a good old Roman name.. they called the IOW Vectis.
Many thanks
Gus

Christine Dawson

Sat 18th Apr 2009 00:11

Thanks chuck!
Cx

winston plowes

Wed 15th Apr 2009 11:23

Hi Ant, Thanks for commenting on "Where there's hope" Winston.

Francine Louis

Fri 27th Mar 2009 00:20

Such a nice gesture... however the problem is
it could be anywhere there... it will take time and effort to recapture ; )

bill

Tue 24th Mar 2009 08:58

hi Antonionioni. Glad to hear I'm not the only one who feels this way
-absolutely livid !

Jack Baker

Mon 23rd Mar 2009 16:07

Barbarossa v Barbarella is amazing, a total change of direction from your other work I have heard, could also be called: Women Always Win.

Steve Regan

Wed 18th Mar 2009 12:00

Hi, I particularly ilked you poem about colour TV. I left this comment on it... " I remember when very few people indeed had colour sets. Only posh folk such as doctors and guest house landladies in Blackpool had "coloured tellies", as they were called in those days. Most of us were so poor in Wigan back then we couldn't afford shoes to eat never mind coloured tellies.
thanks for your comment on my Love's Lost Courage poem, Antonionioni, but, you know, I think she is my one true love. Boo, hoo.

Zahi Sahli

Fri 20th Feb 2009 21:20

Hey, thanks for your comment on my poem. I added a new one.. by the way, I checked out your website and loved your sonnets, they're my favorite kind of poetry.

cheers

cjd

Tue 17th Feb 2009 23:18

Keep trying to talk to you but it's possibly not working? Will try again - also on f/b.
Cx

Zahi Sahli

Sun 15th Feb 2009 11:51

I see you love soccer too. I write on www.bleacherreport.com if you like to keep up with the news.. like your poems.

regards, Zahi

Janet

Wed 21st Jan 2009 10:51

Hi Antonionioni,
No, i don't do back massage.
I do spiritual healing and will send you healing energy.
Love Janet.x

Anthony Emmerson

Sun 18th Jan 2009 11:10

Hi Antonionioni.
Thanks for stopping by to read "... not the only fruit." A challenge to write and an even greater one to read. I'm enjoying your "God" stuff - always loved the BIG themes. Clever use of words and phrases very thoughtfully constructed.
Regards,
A.E.

Gus Jonsson

Fri 9th Jan 2009 23:50

Thanks Big A
U R a star....as well U know!

Gus

Deborah Jordan

Wed 31st Dec 2008 17:06

thank you Antonionioni, for your comments,muy apreciada. With the wonders that are copy, paste and googletranslate i speak badly in any language but some Italian is sinking in..slowly.

Feliz Año Nuevo, Deb

Gabriella Enriocco

Sun 7th Sep 2008 14:43

hola antonio como te llamas nene?
-----------------------------------------------------
WOW i love your poem DANGER WOOWW deffinately the best thing i have read in a long time [aside from my own works of course lol oh and my uncles 'chicken town' you now i'd never want to name drop ;)

besitos mijo
get back 2me when ya can x

sarah clark

Fri 11th Jul 2008 12:41

loving your danger poem
sez x

Shirley Collinge

Wed 2nd Jul 2008 10:53

Hi, Thanks for your comment. It's nice of you to take the time to read my poem 'Theatre of Hell'. Your poems are awesome. My fav is the three 6s one obviously. I think you know the one I mean. Sincerley Shirley

carol falaki

Wed 18th Jun 2008 20:07

Hi Antonioni
Have you seen the 14 by 14 website? they take sonnet submissions.
http:/www.14by14.com.
They only want stuff that hasn't been seen anywhere before.
I just wrote my first, might try another.
x Carol

Melissa R. Mendelson

Tue 27th May 2008 16:36

I am honored to be in the same category as Nina Simone. Thank you. :)

-Melissa

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