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Paul Blackburn

Email: paulb@opticalbusstop.com

Email: paul@godline.com

Homepage: www.paulb.opticalbusstop.com

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Last blog entry: 6 days ago

Profile updated: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:08:31 pm

 

Biography

My dear children bless you all.

Today I stand before you as your new spiritual leader, a lamb of God who has a direct line to several saints who can intercede on your behalf and cause miracles to happen.So, if you want benefice and/or prayers said on your behalf please feel free to contact me with a small donation (min £50).

I have found in all of my work with the sinners of this world that one thing drags them all down into the direst wickedness and iniquity - that my friend is the evil that is money. Yeah, verily I say unto thee - Rid yourself of all that weighs you down and takes you into the ways of the Devil, namely your money, and send it all to me so that I can dispose of it in a holy way.

I will also officiate, for a large fee, at Exorcisms, Marriages, Baptisms and Orgies.
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What they said about Paul's Poem "The Canonisation":

"Tensile strength poetry!" Ricardo Reis,
"...touched by a stroke of genius" Sophie McKeand

What they said about Paul in general

"You rocked like a bastard!" Tony Walsh - later Tony sobered up and wrote "Sorry, typo - I meant you're off your bastard rocker !"

"Odd in a profound way. Profound in an odd way. Odd in an odd way. Way in a way way." Moxy Casimir

"He makes me look like a wimp!" Hunter S Thompson

"Odd, very odd indeed!" Alabaster DePlume

"I sometimes wonder what is in his head" Abi Idowu

"I loved your compering" Rachel Pantechnicon

"He may be a genius or an idiot, either way he's not staying at this school!" Paul's headmaster expelling him from school.

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AUDIO FILES
Here are two audio files of my poems. The first is "Doctor Curio" a studio recording with music provided by an American called Ron Caruana. The second, "The Policeman in my head", was recorded live at the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool. Click on a link to listen.

http://www.opticalbusstop.com/Poems/Audio/Dr_Curio.m3u
http://www.opticalbusstop.com/Poems/Audio/Policehead.m3u
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VIDEO FILES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd2-AvzI_lg

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The Exorcist
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When I was young living with my mummy
People said that I was funny

When I was three and possessed by Satan
I turned nasty and I killed my matron

My head revolved 360 degrees
And I wore bright yellow dungarees

They called for a bible and they called for a priest
Because my soul was soiled and I was a beast

I ripped out hearts and was vicious and mean
But I was exorcised when I was fourteen

Devils, Goblins, witches and racks
Pentangles, circles, mass’s in black
By the power of the angels obey the devout
Go leave this sinner, out demons out!

Credo in unum deum…

I am now pure I am now good
I don’t like killing or spilling blood

I’m no longer one of the living dead
My dungarees are in the shed

So if you’re feeling funny, violent or mean
Want to pluck out an eye or bite a spleen

Don’t kill another person or suck another tongue
Remember me when I was young

And if your bad habits still persists
Call for me I’m the Exorcist

Here comes the Satanic message from our sponsor: Dneef a si norbzo eessoo

I’m a necromancer, a devil dancer, a cross between a leprechaun and Bengal Lancer

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

Last blog entry

Your Smile

Posted on Sunday 7th March 2010 9:22 pm

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It was your smile that first attacked me
I was decimated in the force of it
And your hair hung-down and moving
It shook me. It shook me!

It was your smile that first enwrapped me
I was corrupted in the feel of it
And your face shone golden, golden!
The very halo of your smile

It was your smile that first entrapped me
Caged me in the nap of it
And down deep thundered, thundered
The wellings of Mount Etna

It was your smile that first attached me
Umbilical in the join of it
And it is your smile that still remains
Branded in here, in here!

 

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Ann Foxglove

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Wed 10th Mar 2010 15:47

WOW! My dad used to work for the BBC in the special effects dept and he WAS the flea circus! He designed it, made it and was crouched under it pulling tiny strings etc.. I have Michael Bentine's autograph. And my dad did lots of stuff for Spike Milligan too (Q5 etc) Sorry for blowing my dad's trumpet, but he was great.

 

hatta

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Sun 7th Mar 2010 21:37

They're totally beguiling!I can see a musical/book... I can see videos! Tone and subject are so perfectly matched. They're marvels.

 

Chris Dawson

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Sun 7th Mar 2010 19:01

I'm in the next one? That's very worrying, not to mention quite mystifying.... unless it's about a bearded lady, and I shall be very upset if it is!
Cx

 

Gus Jonsson

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Fri 5th Feb 2010 20:48

Tis me self not more than a week ago.... got bought a razor 4 xmas....


Got to take me ID into the pub.... grief eh... once ya got it ya never lose it.... by the way I'm strugglin to get a sound bite on !.25 meg... will this be the case.???

Yer Beautiful boy Gus

 

Antony Owen

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Fri 5th Feb 2010 10:00

The quote from your headmaster cracked me up.

Youtube clip reminds me of the gritty urban poetry of jacqui smallridge.

The expressionism of contemporary performance poetry interests me, give it to em Paul !

 

Ann Foxglove

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Sat 9th Jan 2010 19:45

Meant to say, did you used to like Edgar Broughton Band- Out Demons Out - you must have!

 

Chris Co

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Sat 9th Jan 2010 15:49

Hey Paul, came here to look for and have another look at that great new surreal video/poem you put on the site recently.

Any direction to it would be appreciated.

P.S

Any chance of performing Last train to Shitsville at the Tudor?

Would love to see the train....if a backing tape could be done that would be even better.

If not possible- not to worry.

Chris

 

Ann Foxglove

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Sat 9th Jan 2010 11:03

Hello Paul - I am iced, if not snowed, up here, on the top of a hill a mile out of the village and there was a ring on my doorbell! Was it my longed-for coalman with my even more longed-for coal? Was it a friend come to see if I'd run out of comestibles? Was it a poor stranger fallen in the snow in need of help? No, it was two blimmin' WatchTower salesman! Now, if you still had the wonderful video for the Exorsist on here I might have asked them in and corrupted them with it. But, sadly, I had to let them go on their righteous way. So you see how you've ruined my day yet again! ;-)

 

Ann Foxglove

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Fri 8th Jan 2010 16:44

Where's the Exorsist gone?????????????????? I wanted to hear it again, I told my son to find it on the bloggs, but it's gone! Has god taken it away? Please put it back or my head will start spinning round. I can hear it but I can't see it. Woe is me!

 

Ann Foxglove

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Tue 5th Jan 2010 14:15

I love My Friend Comes From Manchester, you are cool.

 

Dave Morgan

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Tue 5th Jan 2010 12:55

I've just become your 6000th visitor Paul, you some popular bastard! Just listened to the Exorcist again, brill. Rock poetry rivals rap poetry, not enough of it about. Rock on Tommy.

 

winston plowes

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Tue 8th Sep 2009 11:27

Hi Paul,

Thankyou Paul, Francine and Janet for your replies in the haiku form. Paul - Can you actually buy nicotine free cigarettes? I'm not sure. If you can then, yes they would certainly fall into the right category here.

Cheers, (and not with Bavaria Regular) Winston x

 

Suzy Dent

Wed 27th May 2009 11:20

Hello Paul, i would like to say thankyou for your assistance with my profile photo. I like a man with a sense of humour. Suzy.

 

Nabila Suriya

Sun 17th May 2009 17:28

thanks for all the support you have given me and fellow students re events coverage and promotion on this site. Much valued

 

Francine Louis

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Wed 13th May 2009 12:50

Love how you qualify your poem 'The Mind Reader' as 'Wonderful'... sounds like me ; )

 

Matt Lawless

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Thu 15th Jan 2009 10:50

I can appreciate that. If you haven't already read any Jorge Luis Borges though, I would definitely recommend him.

 

Janet Ramsden

Thu 9th Oct 2008 09:47

Hi Paul,
Great new profile, but you'll have to do more than make me laugh to get my hard earned cash. ha ha.

love Janet.xx

 

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