{"id":4170,"date":"2013-03-14T09:00:32","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T09:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=4170"},"modified":"2013-03-09T15:16:16","modified_gmt":"2013-03-09T15:16:16","slug":"anthony-wilson-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/anthony-wilson-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>On Twitter<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><em>after Kenneth Koch<\/em><strong><\/p>\n<p>Jokes on Twitter<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nMostly<br \/>\nI am with<br \/>\nthe man<br \/>\nwho said:<br \/>\n\u2018Missed<br \/>\nthe dawn chorus.<br \/>\nPlease retweet.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nMornings on Twitter<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nAre wasted mornings<\/p>\n<p><strong>Poetry on Twitter<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>You cannot find<br \/>\nSeamus Heaney<br \/>\non Twitter<\/p>\n<p><strong>Multiple Identities on Twitter<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>Many people<br \/>\nHave several identities<br \/>\non Twitter<br \/>\nbut do not use them<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pictures on Twitter<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>Every one<br \/>\nis worth<br \/>\none hundred and forty characters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>God on Twitter<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>God is everywhere<br \/>\non Twitter.<br \/>\nHe is everywhere<br \/>\non Facebook<br \/>\nat the same time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To My Stalkers on Twitter<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>Hello Fran!<br \/>\n<strong><\/p>\n<p>Autumn Mornings on Twitter<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nA breeze<br \/>\nstoops<br \/>\nto kiss<br \/>\nmy cheek<\/p>\n<p><strong>Self-Hatred on Twitter<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>Facebook<br \/>\nhates itself<br \/>\nfor not being Twitter<\/p>\n<p><strong>Meeting Your Life Partner on Twitter<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>Many people<br \/>\nhave met their<br \/>\nlife partners<br \/>\non Twitter.<br \/>\nThis was before<br \/>\nthey met<br \/>\nin real life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Identity on Twitter<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>This is my username<br \/>\n\u0336 \u00a0so use it!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Twitter in Bed<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nI\u2019m not falling<br \/>\nfor that one!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Racial Abuse on Twitter<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>It still exists<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stephen Fry on Twitter<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>Did you know,<br \/>\nStephen Fry<br \/>\ninvented<br \/>\nTwitter?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Surrealism on Twitter<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>This is an onion,<br \/>\nnot a poem!<br \/>\n<strong><\/p>\n<p>Hashtags on Twitter<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>One day soon<br \/>\nthere will be<\/p>\n<p>a hashtag<br \/>\nfor everything<\/p>\n<p><strong>Footballers on Twitter<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nhave many followers<\/p>\n<p><strong>Twitter vs Facebook<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>You need<br \/>\nto get out<br \/>\nmore<\/p>\n<p><strong>Celebrities on Twitter<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>They use it<br \/>\nto parade<br \/>\nthe minutiae<br \/>\nof their lives<\/p>\n<p>like the rest of us<\/p>\n<p><strong>Onions on Twitter<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>The best onions<br \/>\non Twitter<br \/>\nare Spanish onions<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sonnets on Twitter<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>will<br \/>\nnot<br \/>\nfit<\/p>\n<p><strong>The End of the Affair on Twitter<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>You sitting there<br \/>\na doe in mist<br \/>\none shaft of sun with dust<br \/>\nin it \u00a0life without you is bare<\/p>\n<p><strong>Profile Pictures on Twitter<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>Are preferable<br \/>\nto those<br \/>\negg things<\/p>\n<p><strong>Favouritism on Twitter<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>I would like<br \/>\nto favourite<br \/>\nthe world<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Stark Truth of Twitter<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>Twitter is a room<br \/>\nwhere everybody shouts<br \/>\nand nobody listens<\/p>\n<p><strong>Haiku on Twitter<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nHaiku<br \/>\nis much older<br \/>\nthan Twitter<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shakespeare on Twitter<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>Somewhere, somebody is typing<br \/>\nthe Complete Works of Shakespeare<br \/>\ninto Twitter<\/p>\n<p><strong>Self-absorption on Twitter<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>But that\u2019s enough about me<br \/>\nlet\u2019s talk about me<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pornography on Twitter<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>That got you interested<br \/>\ndidn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to leave Twitter<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>is the name of a book<br \/>\nnot a set of instructions<\/p>\n<p><strong>Networking on Twitter<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>can be time-consuming<\/p>\n<p><strong>Self-Knowledge on Twitter<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>Another bloody writer.<br \/>\nJust what Twitter needs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Just Checking Twitter When You Should Really Be Doing Something Else<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>fuels your insecurity<\/p>\n<p><strong>Canada on Twitter<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>I have been searching<br \/>\nfor my favourite Canadian poet<br \/>\non Twitter<br \/>\nbut have had no luck<\/p>\n<p><strong>Philosophy on Twitter<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>There is even<br \/>\nmore of this<br \/>\non Twitter<br \/>\nthan there is<br \/>\npornography!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fish on Twitter<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>Mostly<br \/>\nI am with<br \/>\nthe woman<br \/>\nwho said<br \/>\nshe was curating<br \/>\na subterranean<br \/>\nsanctuary<br \/>\nfor freshwater fish<br \/>\nand called it<br \/>\nan underground carp ark<br \/>\n<strong><\/p>\n<p>Kindness on Twitter<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>is underrated<\/p>\n<p><strong>Poem for the Lonely on Twitter<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>Hello<br \/>\n<strong><\/p>\n<p>Mornings on Twitter<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>are energetic mornings<\/p>\n<p><strong>The New York School on Twitter 2<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>\u201cThe pattern that may carry the sense, but<br \/>\nstays hidden in the mysteries of<br \/>\npagination.<\/p>\n<p>(I am not John Ashbery.)\u201d<\/p>\n<p>is the profile of John Ashbery on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Commuting on Twitter<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>Each day<br \/>\nyoung men and women<br \/>\nwalk past my house<br \/>\nwithout thinking about Twitter<\/p>\n<p><strong>To My Love at the Close of Day<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>Without doubt<br \/>\nof all my life\u2019s adventures<br \/>\nknowing you<br \/>\nwas the best<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gossip on Twitter<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>The celebrity<br \/>\nat the end of our road<br \/>\nhas got builders in<br \/>\n#justsayin<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wallace Stevens on Twitter<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>It was snowing<br \/>\nAnd it was going to snow.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Time Travel on Twitter<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>It is possible to be unfollowed<br \/>\non Twitter<br \/>\nseconds before being followed<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nThe New York School on Twitter<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>Frank O\u2019Hara<br \/>\nis alive and well<br \/>\non Twitter<\/p>\n<p><strong>James Schuyler<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>Hasn\u2019t tweeted yet<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Love of My Life on Twitter<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>I would happily lose all of them<br \/>\nIf it meant I could hold on to you<\/p>\n<p><strong>Comedy on Twitter<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>Twitter is a gift to comedians<br \/>\nnot the other way round.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Future on Twitter<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>Just imagine<br \/>\nwhat Spike Milligan<br \/>\nwould have done<br \/>\nwith Twitter<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pants on Twitter<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>Yes, even these.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saved Searches on Twitter<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>I looked everywhere<br \/>\non Twitter<br \/>\nbut all I wanted<br \/>\nwas you<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recommended People on Twitter<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>I would cross the street<br \/>\nto avoid them<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher Hitchens<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>did not bother with Twitter.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nMultitasking on Twitter<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>It is perfectly possible<br \/>\nto be at one\u2019s toilet<br \/>\nand on Twitter<br \/>\nat the same time<\/p>\n<p><strong>Poetry on Twitter<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>Kenneth Koch<br \/>\nlives in Atlanta<br \/>\nand is a leader<br \/>\nfor KPMG\u2019s<br \/>\nForensic Technology Services.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In Twitter as in Life<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>We have to write better than we can.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anthony Wilson<\/strong> is a poet, writing tutor and lecturer.\u00a0 He has just published his fourth collection of poems, \u00a0<em>Riddance<\/em> (Worple Press). <em>Love for Now<\/em>, a prose memoir, was published last year by Impress books.\u00a0 He can be found online at <a href=\"http:\/\/anthonywilsonpoetry.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.anthonywilsonpoetry.com<\/a>\u00a0 Twitter: @awilsonpoet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; On Twitter after Kenneth Koch Jokes on Twitter Mostly I am with the man who said: \u2018Missed the dawn chorus. 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