And you can't remember where your heart once lay

[sovay]

My poem "A Correct Interpretation" has been accepted by Not One of Us. It is the poem I wrote for the yahrzeit of the molasses flood, incorporating other Boston disasters and the way that time has gone strange since the spring of 2020. The title comes from Nigel Kneale's The Stone Tape (1972), defining a ghost: "Let's say it's a mass of data waiting for a correct interpretation."

The rest of my day was lost to my lungs. thisbluespirit linked me a treasure trove of British TV plays which is waiting for me like an event horizon; it has already furnished several items about which I have been curious for decades and one which I did not expect ever to see. It would be nice to be able to do anything with my brain at all.

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[yhlee]

Yay poem!

Thinking of you.

[minoanmiss]

*sends oxygenating vibes*

[asakiyume]

So glad for a molasses flood poem in Not One of Us

*heal up, Sovay's lungs*

[rydra_wong]

a treasure trove of British TV plays

WOW. I will be diving into that. Oh, they have Rodney Ackland's Absolute Hell, which I saw and remember as being amazing! It's Ackland's de-censored version of his play The Pink Room, from 1952; in 1988, a few years before his death, he re-wrote it to make explicit all the stuff he'd had to bury to get past the censors (it's a very queer play).

So it's fascinating because it's absolutely a work of the 1950s but saying out loud all of the things that could only be said in code.

Also it contains a passage that has spoken to me all my life:

"Well, I've always, ever since I was a child, felt it was so 'rude', so absolutely unbelievable and sort of surrealist, for two people not of the same sex to have sex together that I must say it does give me a really rather terrific and most horribly, I'm afraid, perverted -- kind of thrill."

[vass]

Congratulations on the poem. I am sorry about your lungs.

[poliphilo]

And there I was thinking all those TV plays were lost beyond recall. That's a quite extraordinary stash.

[pameladean]

Oh, excellent poetry news!

I send kindly thoughts to your lungs.

And hugs to you. P.

[thisbluespirit]

Congrats on the poem, and I'm delighted to know the YT person's stash was of interest! ♥

[choco_frosh]

Congrats, and sorry that your lungs hate you.
< hugs >

[oracne]

Yay sale! Also yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay that YouTube channel.

[strange_complex]

Congratulations on your poem. That Youtube channel of the TV plays really does look good as well. I scrolled down, and then scrolled down some more, and it just kept on going, seemingly forever! Definitely lots of interest to explore.

[gwynnega]

Yay poem! I hope your lungs have a better time of it soon.

That YouTube channel looks amazing.