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Dating back to the deluded poet in The Man Who Was Thursday, poetry and "anarchism" will always be to me a cringefest of an amalgam, more for the dupes or the impressionable liberal youngsters than for the radicals. This may be related to a buddy I used to have, a prominent local figure of poetry also known for being "anarchist", and this guy was a total manipulative histrionic narcissist who raveled in authoritarianism... also unsurprisingly a closet fascist with a discrete love for young boys and neonazi brutes.

On the other hand, poetry, as unrelated to any anarchism at least on the surface, greatly helped expanding my mind through free-play with words, syntax and especially the symbolic meta-discourse of metaphors. It connects you with mystical sensibilities that reach away from the dull asinine brutality of the dominant materialist world.

So yeah... try keeping poetry as the apolitical, un-ideological discipline it is better at?

Also why not a TOTW on electro music as well?