Poetry for the 21st Century - Gothic Poetry of Simon Moses

Meditations on the Poetry Samples (new 05/19/03) - Essay by Simon Moses

Cell Phone Scum - (WEB SITE EXCLUSIVE!)

You are everywhere,

And your vileness is incalculable.

No! I don’t want to hear your conversation:
You have absolutely nothing to say.

And still you subject me

To your inane prattle;

Or the sight of your retarded smile

With metal clamped to the

Side of your face,

Like some artificial tumour

Which mirrors the

Very real tumour that

Masquerades as your brain.

And how delightful it would be

If you were to collide fatally with a tree

While babbling on your cell phone

When you should have been

Concentrating on your driving;

Instead of snuffing out

The worthwhile life of

Someone with discretion:

Someone with regard

For the private space

Of the civilised.

Why don’t you spend

The infinity of hours

That you transmit useless noise

From your own stupid self

To the idiot on the other line,

And read a book for goodness sake!

But you are the world,

And the world is you.

It’s too bad that

Dante isn’t around to

Designate a whole new

Circle of Hell for you.

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NEWS: UNNATURAL ATTACHMENT FEATURED IN 1STBOOKS AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT

MIAMI, FLORIDA 04/25/02 – The 1stbooks Library has chosen Simon Moses’ existentialist poetry book, “Unnatural Attachment” as its current feature in its Author Spotlight.

Together with a rave review that gushes, “Although Moses’ verses emotionally-weighty and thought-provoking, it appeals to an innately present human characteristic, fascination, and as such should appeal to a wide variety of readers.”

The 1stbooks “Author Spotlight” appears on the homepage at www.1stbooks.com which will ensure that Unnatural Attachment receives a tremendous amount of exposure. It is revealed on the site that the “1stbooks Library’s website garners 1.6 million hits per month, and is currently listed on more than 3,100 search engines.”

Poet Simon Moses is indeed deeply thrilled to have received this distinction from the 1stbooks Library which will undoubtedly take him a long way in achieving commercial and critical success for his “wild, existentialist poetry.”

Unnatural Attachment can be purchased online click here.

The definitive collection! – Simon Moses’ A Celebration of Failure contains 99 new and unpublished poems, as well as 42 revised and corrected classics from Alone: A Poetic Journey into Despair (1999) and Unnatural Attachment (2001).

Past readers of Moses’ aching, bitter, raging philosophical poetry will not be disappointed by new offerings such as “Hell Was Made for People like You” and “Nothing Sacred Could Be Applied to Her”, which rampage exquisitely alongside previous touchstones such as “Our Love Fell Like Hitler’s Dream” and “You Gave Me A Virus”.