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Fu*king Censorship

They’re at it again. There’s a sector of our so-called “artistic community” who insist on operating strictly on terms that equate their freedom of expression to some school project approved by teacher and headmaster. Already when the Stitching case first came to light we had many a protest about “the death of expression” and mock funerals. J’accuse had taken a very clear position back then – this was a case of the law’s transient provisions needing a re-application and updating in accordance with the mores of society. What we also found obnoxious was the niggling need of our “artists” to obtain a “nihil obstat” from every authority before staging “provocative” pieces. In my not too humble opinion they missed the point completely. Provocative pieces HAVE to be staged without authority’s acquiescence. Take to the streets if necessary – under pouring rain in the midst of Valletta commuters declaim all the “fucks” you like and picture as many “vaginas and penises” as your might require to provoke.

Instead our artists will sit and weep in a corner and when they are not bemoaning the lack of funding for their social projects they will be telling us how all that they have to say and do is being suffocated by that behemoth called CENSORSHIP.

Enough I say. The Stitching appeal was based and framed within the context of the old laws. Why are we surprised that the court was consistent in upholding the ban? Isn’t that why the laws were changed in the end? Have things really remained the same? Is our artistic community suffering the pains of further censorship? Like hell they are.

Go ahead and stage the bloody piece.

 

Howl. Allen Ginsberg.

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by 
madness, starving hysterical naked, 
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn 
looking for an angry fix, 
angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly 
connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night, 
who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat 
up smoking in the supernatural darkness of 
cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities 
contemplating jazz, 
who bared their brains to Heaven under the El and 
saw Mohammedan angels staggering on tenement roofs illuminated, 
who passed through universities with radiant cool eyes 
hallucinating Arkansas and Blake-light tragedy 
among the scholars of war, 
who were expelled from the academies for crazy & 
publishing obscene odes on the windows of the skull,
who cowered in unshaven rooms in underwear, 
burning their money in wastebaskets and listening 
to the Terror through the wall, 
who got busted in their pubic beards returning through 
Laredo with a belt of marijuana for New York, 
who ate fire in paint hotels or drank turpentine in 
Paradise Alley, death, or purgatoried their 
torsos night after night 
with dreams, with drugs, with waking nightmares,
alcohol and cock and endless balls, 
incomparable blind; streets of shuddering cloud and 
lightning in the mind leaping toward poles of Canada & Paterson,
illuminating all the motionless world of Time between, 
Peyote solidities of halls, backyard green tree cemetery 
dawns, wine drunkenness over the rooftops, 
storefront boroughs of teahead joyride neon 
blinking traffic light, sun and moon and tree 
vibrations in the roaring winter dusks of Brooklyn,
ashcan rantings and kind king light of mind, 
who chained themselves to subways for the endless 
ride from Battery to holy Bronx on benzedrine 
until the noise of wheels and children brought 
them down shuddering mouth-wracked and 
battered bleak of brain all drained of brilliance 
in the drear light of Zoo,
who sank all night in submarine light of Bickford's 
floated out and sat through the stale beer after
noon in desolate Fugazzi's, listening to the crack 
of doom on the hydrogen jukebox, 
who talked continuously seventy hours from park to 
pad to bar to Bellevue to museum to the Brooklyn Bridge, 
lost battalion of platonic conversationalists jumping 
down the stoops off fire escapes off windowsills 
off Empire State out of the moon, 
yacketayakking screaming vomiting whispering facts 
and memories and anecdotes and eyeball kicks 
and shocks of hospitals and jails and wars, 
whole intellects disgorged in total recall for seven days 
and nights with brilliant eyes, meat for the 
Synagogue cast on the pavement, 
who vanished into nowhere Zen New Jersey leaving a 
trail of ambiguous picture postcards of Atlantic City Hall, 
suffering Eastern sweats and Tangerian bone-grind-ings and 
migraines of China under junk-with-drawal in Newark's bleak furnished room, 
who wandered around and around at midnight in the 
railroad yard wondering where to go, and went, 
leaving no broken hearts, 
who lit cigarettes in boxcars boxcars boxcars racketing 
through snow toward lonesome farms in grand-father night, 
who studied Plotinus Poe St. John of the Cross telepathy 
and bop kabbalah because the cosmos instinctively 
vibrated at their feet in Kansas, 
who loned it through the streets of Idaho seeking visionary 
indian angels who were visionary indian angels, 
who thought they were only mad when Baltimore 
gleamed in supernatural ecstasy, 
who jumped in limousines with the Chinaman of Oklahoma on the impulse of winter midnight street
light smalltown rain, 
who lounged hungry and lonesome through Houston 
seeking jazz or sex or soup, and followed the 
brilliant Spaniard to converse about America 
and Eternity, a hopeless task, and so took ship to Africa, 
who disappeared into the volcanoes of Mexico leaving 
behind nothing but the shadow of dungarees 
and the lava and ash of poetry scattered in fireplace Chicago, 
who reappeared on the West Coast investigating the 
F.B.I. in beards and shorts with big pacifist 
eyes sexy in their dark skin passing out incomprehensible leaflets, 
who burned cigarette holes in their arms protesting 
the narcotic tobacco haze of Capitalism, 
who distributed Supercommunist pamphlets in Union 
Square weeping and undressing while the sirens 
of Los Alamos wailed them down, and wailed 
down Wall, and the Staten Island ferry also wailed, 
who broke down crying in white gymnasiums naked 
and trembling before the machinery of other skeletons, 
who bit detectives in the neck and shrieked with delight 
in policecars for committing no crime but their 
own wild cooking pederasty and intoxication, 
who howled on their knees in the subway and were 
dragged off the roof waving genitals and manuscripts, 
who let themselves be fucked in the ass by saintly 
motorcyclists, and screamed with joy, 
who blew and were blown by those human seraphim, 
the sailors, caresses of Atlantic and Caribbean love, 
who balled in the morning in the evenings in rose
gardens and the grass of public parks and 
cemeteries scattering their semen freely to 
whomever come who may, 
who hiccuped endlessly trying to giggle but wound up 
with a sob behind a partition in a Turkish Bath 
when the blond & naked angel came to pierce 
them with a sword, 
who lost their loveboys to the three old shrews of fate 
the one eyed shrew of the heterosexual dollar 
the one eyed shrew that winks out of the womb 
and the one eyed shrew that does nothing but 
sit on her ass and snip the intellectual golden 
threads of the craftsman's loom, 
who copulated ecstatic and insatiate with a bottle of 
beer a sweetheart a package of cigarettes a candle and fell off the bed, and continued along 
the floor and down the hall and ended fainting 
on the wall with a vision of ultimate cunt and 
come eluding the last gyzym of consciousness, 
who sweetened the snatches of a million girls trembling 
in the sunset, and were red eyed in the morning 
but prepared to sweeten the snatch of the sun
rise, flashing buttocks under barns and naked in the lake, 
who went out whoring through Colorado in myriad 
stolen night-cars, N.C., secret hero of these 
poems, cocksman and Adonis of Denver-joy 
to the memory of his innumerable lays of girls 
in empty lots & diner backyards, moviehouses' 
 rickety rows, on mountaintops in caves or with 
gaunt waitresses in familiar roadside lonely petticoat upliftings & especially secret gas-station 
solipsisms of johns, & hometown alleys too, 
who faded out in vast sordid movies, were shifted in 
dreams, woke on a sudden Manhattan, and 
picked themselves up out of basements hung
over with heartless Tokay and horrors of Third 
Avenue iron dreams & stumbled to unemployment offices, 
who walked all night with their shoes full of blood on 
the snowbank docks waiting for a door in the 
East River to open to a room full of steamheat and opium, 
who created great suicidal dramas on the apartment 
cliff-banks of the Hudson under the wartime 
blue floodlight of the moon & their heads shall 
be crowned with laurel in oblivion, 
who ate the lamb stew of the imagination or digested 
the crab at the muddy bottom of the rivers of Bowery, 
who wept at the romance of the streets with their 
pushcarts full of onions and bad music, 
who sat in boxes breathing in the darkness under the 
bridge, and rose up to build harpsichords in their lofts, 
who coughed on the sixth floor of Harlem crowned 
with flame under the tubercular sky surrounded 
by orange crates of theology, 
who scribbled all night rocking and rolling over lofty 
incantations which in the yellow morning were 
stanzas of gibberish, 
who cooked rotten animals lung heart feet tail borsht 
& tortillas dreaming of the pure vegetable kingdom, 
who plunged themselves under meat trucks looking for an egg, 
who threw their watches off the roof to cast their ballot 
for Eternity outside of Time, & alarm clocks 
fell on their heads every day for the next decade, 
who cut their wrists three times successively unsuccessfully, gave up and were forced to open antique 
stores where they thought they were growing 
old and cried,
who were burned alive in their innocent flannel suits 
on Madison Avenue amid blasts of leaden verse 
& the tanked-up clatter of the iron regiments 
of fashion & the nitroglycerine shrieks of the 
fairies of advertising & the mustard gas of sinister intelligent editors, or were run down by the 
drunken taxicabs of Absolute Reality, 
who jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge this actually happened and walked away unknown and forgotten 
into the ghostly daze of Chinatown soup alley
ways & firetrucks, not even one free beer, 
who sang out of their windows in despair, fell out of 
the subway window, jumped in the filthy Passaic, leaped on negroes, 
cried all over the street, 
danced on broken wineglasses barefoot smashed 
phonograph records of nostalgic European 
1930s German jazz finished the whiskey and 
threw up groaning into the bloody toilet, moans 
in their ears and the blast of colossal steam whistles, 
who barreled down the highways of the past journeying 
to each other's hotrod-Golgotha jail-solitude 
watch or Birmingham jazz incarnation, 
who drove crosscountry seventytwo hours to find out 
if I had a vision or you had a vision or he had 
a vision to find out Eternity, 
who journeyed to Denver, who died in Denver, who 
came back to Denver & waited in vain, who 
watched over Denver & brooded & loned in 
Denver and finally went away to find out the 
Time, & now Denver is lonesome for her heroes,
who fell on their knees in hopeless cathedrals praying 
for each other's salvation and light and breasts, 
until the soul illuminated its hair for a second, 
who crashed through their minds in jail waiting for 
impossible criminals with golden heads and the 
charm of reality in their hearts who sang sweet 
blues to Alcatraz, 
who retired to Mexico to cultivate a habit, or Rocky 
Mount to tender Buddha or Tangiers to boys 
or Southern Pacific to the black locomotive or 
Harvard to Narcissus to Woodlawn to the 
daisychain or grave, 
who demanded sanity trials accusing the radio of hyp
notism & were left with their insanity & their 
hands & a hung jury, 
who threw potato salad at CCNY lecturers on Dadaism 
and subsequently presented themselves on the 
granite steps of the madhouse with shaven heads 
and harlequin speech of suicide, demanding instantaneous lobotomy, 
and who were given instead the concrete void of insulin 
Metrazol electricity hydrotherapy psychotherapy occupational 
therapy pingpong & amnesia, 
who in humorless protest overturned only one symbolic 
pingpong table, resting briefly in catatonia,
returning years later truly bald except for a wig of 
blood, and tears and fingers, to the visible mad
man doom of the wards of the madtowns of the East, 
Pilgrim State's Rockland's and Greystone's foetid 
halls, bickering with the echoes of the soul, 
rocking and rolling in the midnight solitude-bench 
dolmen-realms of love, dream of life a nightmare, 
bodies turned to stone as heavy as the moon, 
with mother finally ******, and the last fantastic book 
flung out of the tenement window, and the last 
door closed at 4. A.M. and the last telephone 
slammed at the wall in reply and the last furnished room 
emptied down to the last piece of mental furniture, 
a yellow paper rose twisted on a wire hanger in the closet, 
and even that imaginary, 
nothing but a hopeful little bit of hallucination
ah, Carl, while you are not safe I am not safe, and 
now you're really in the total animal soup of time
and who therefore ran through the icy streets obsessed 
with a sudden flash of the alchemy of the use 
of the ellipse the catalog the meter & the vibrating plane,
who dreamt and made incarnate gaps in Time & Space 
through images juxtaposed, and trapped the 
archangel of the soul between 2 visual images 
and joined the elemental verbs and set the noun 
and dash of consciousness together jumping 
with sensation of Pater Omnipotens Aeterna Deus 
to recreate the syntax and measure of poor human 
prose and stand before you speechless and intelligent 
and shaking with shame, 
rejected yet confessing out the soul to conform to the rhythm 
of thought in his naked and endless head, 
the madman bum and angel beat in Time, unknown, 
yet putting down here what might be left to say 
in time come after death, 
and rose reincarnate in the ghostly clothes of jazz in 
the goldhorn shadow of the band and blew the 
suffering of America's naked mind for love into 
an eli eli lamma lamma sabacthani saxophone 
cry that shivered the cities down to the last radio 
with the absolute heart of the poem of life butchered 
out of their own bodies good to eat a thousand years.
What sphinx of cement and aluminum bashed open 
their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination? 
Moloch! Solitude! Filth! Ugliness! Ashcans and unob
tainable dollars! Children screaming under the 
stairways! Boys sobbing in armies! Old men 
weeping in the parks! 
Moloch! Moloch! Nightmare of Moloch! Moloch the 
loveless! Mental Moloch! Moloch the heavy 
judger of men! 
Moloch the incomprehensible prison! Moloch the 
crossbone soulless jailhouse and Congress of 
sorrows! Moloch whose buildings are judgment! 
Moloch the vast stone of war! Moloch the stunned governments! 
Moloch whose mind is pure machinery! Moloch whose 
blood is running money! Moloch whose fingers 
are ten armies! Moloch whose breast is a cannibal dynamo! 
Moloch whose ear is a smoking tomb! 
Moloch whose eyes are a thousand blind windows! 
Moloch whose skyscrapers stand in the long 
streets like endless Jehovahs! Moloch whose factories 
dream and croak in the fog! Moloch whose 
smokestacks and antennae crown the cities!
Moloch whose love is endless oil and stone! Moloch 
whose soul is electricity and banks! Moloch 
whose poverty is the specter of genius! Moloch 
whose fate is a cloud of sexless hydrogen! 
Moloch whose name is the Mind! 
Moloch in whom I sit lonely! Moloch in whom I dream 
Angels! Crazy in Moloch! Cocksucker in 
Moloch! Lacklove and manless in Moloch! 
Moloch who entered my soul early! Moloch in whom 
I am a consciousness without a body! Moloch 
who frightened me out of my natural ecstasy! 
Moloch whom I abandon! Wake up in Moloch! 
Light streaming out of the sky! 
Moloch! Moloch! Robot apartments! invisible suburbs! 
skeleton treasuries! blind capitals! demonic 
industries! spectral nations! invincible mad 
houses! granite cocks! monstrous bombs! 
They broke their backs lifting Moloch to Heaven! Pave-
ments, trees, radios, tons! lifting the city to 
Heaven which exists and is everywhere about us! 
Visions! omens! hallucinations! miracles! ecstasies! 
gone down the American river! 
Dreams! adorations! illuminations! religions! the whole 
boatload of sensitive bullshit!
Breakthroughs! over the river! flips and crucifixions! 
gone down the flood! Highs! Epiphanies! Despairs! 
Ten years' animal screams and suicides! 
Minds! New loves! Mad generation! down on 
the rocks of Time!
Real holy laughter in the river! They saw it all! the 
wild eyes! the holy yells! They bade farewell! 
They jumped off the roof! to solitude! waving! 
carrying flowers! Down to the river! into the street!
Carl Solomon! I'm with you in Rockland 
where you're madder than I am 
I'm with you in Rockland 
where you must feel very strange 
I'm with you in Rockland 
where you imitate the shade of my mother 
I'm with you in Rockland 
where you've murdered your twelve secretaries 
I'm with you in Rockland 
where you laugh at this invisible humor 
I'm with you in Rockland 
where we are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter 
I'm with you in Rockland 
where your condition has become serious and 
is reported on the radio 
I'm with you in Rockland 
where the faculties of the skull no longer admit 
the worms of the senses 
I'm with you in Rockland 
where you drink the tea of the breasts of the 
spinsters of Utica 
I'm with you in Rockland 
where you pun on the bodies of your nurses the 
harpies of the Bronx 
I'm with you in Rockland 
where you scream in a straightjacket that you're 
losing the game of the actual pingpong of the abyss 
I'm with you in Rockland 
where you bang on the catatonic piano the soul 
is innocent and immortal it should never die 
ungodly in an armed madhouse 
I'm with you in Rockland 
where fifty more shocks will never return your 
soul to its body again from its pilgrimage to a 
cross in the void 
I'm with you in Rockland 
where you accuse your doctors of insanity and 
plot the Hebrew socialist revolution against the 
fascist national Golgotha 
I'm with you in Rockland 
where you will split the heavens of Long Island 
and resurrect your living human Jesus from the 
superhuman tomb 
I'm with you in Rockland 
where there are twenty-five-thousand mad com-
rades all together singing the final stanzas of 
the Internationale 
I'm with you in Rockland 
where we hug and kiss the United States under 
our bedsheets the United States that coughs all 
night and won't let us sleep 
I'm with you in Rockland 
where we wake up electrified out of the coma 
by our own souls' airplanes roaring over the 
roof they've come to drop angelic bombs the 
hospital illuminates itself imaginary walls collapse 
O skinny legions run outside O starry
spangled shock of mercy the eternal war is 
here O victory forget your underwear we're free 
I'm with you in Rockland 
in my dreams you walk dripping from a sea-
journey on the highway across America in tears 
to the door of my cottage in the Western night

 

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19 replies on “Fu*king Censorship”

Fine Jacques have it your way. 1. We did not stage protests or fucking funerals. we staged rehearsals of the play in various places to audiences of various ages. We have and can stage the play 2. When a court upholds a ban, that ban lives on. Yes we can ‘publish and be damned’ but things have gone beyond the point of merely staging the play. The point is that I want to show that our judges are not worthy of being in their position. I want to show that the o called expert on Human Rights in Malta who opined all over the legal journals with his screwed up interpretation of the play can’t even understand the text let alone comment on. I want to tell that master pornographer Fr Joe Borg, who thinks its ok to take excerpts from the play out of context read them to hundred of thousand of xarabank viewers 9 and translates for those who don’t understand), where to get off. I want to tell Ex-Chief Justice Mifsud Bonnici, who is suddenly an expert in English Literature to finally F off and let us get on with living. so yes this member of the ‘so-called artistic community’ is going to go on fighting because as it is those b*stards up at university, that menagerie of Judges down the road in republic street and that woman in San pawl tat-targa will continue to hold her head up high and quite rightly tell me that no Malta is not Europe

Divorzju, parla Agnesi. Malta…Europe…Malta…Europe. Tonio Borg. Malta…Europe…Malta…Europe. Grrrrrrrrrrrr!

Chris. I can see where you are coming from and you will be surprised to find out that there are many points on which we agree. So let me try:

1. To begin with I stand by my position with regard to the lack of importance of this appeal judgement because of the change in the laws. So first of all the main reason I am not wont to kicking up a fuss is that the other arm of the state – the government – has seen the flaw and moved to fix it.

2. As for the case per se and the approach of the court I had gone on record ages ago that even a minimum appreciation of the literary and dramatic value of such pieces would lead the court to stop thinking literally. The problem is one of interpretation of the law and not of the law itself. I remember writing that by the standards of the court we should also ban performances of Macbeth since there is not much difference between parts of Stitching and Lady Macbeth’s “unsex me here” scene.

3. I would not exactly consider Fr Joe Borg as a standard for anything beyond being a regular guest on Bondi’s programmes as an “expert” of sorts. I do not know who the woman in San Pawl tat-Targa is and unfortunately I might have to agree with you that some judges (and not just Jojo) might not have the same literary approach as is required to get a proper feel of the average man’s appreciation of literary messages.

4. Fight on! You have all my backing for what it’s worth (I am often called an armchair critic though in quite a Don Quixote way I do feel that my pen/keyboard can be much more powerful than anything else).

@Peppi. Zgur ma qrajthiex kollha. Qisek qorti kostituzzjonali… trid tikkumenta u mank tindenja taqra l-iskritt.

One question from one that has no idea of the law.

Does this mean that if Stitches is performed today, and someone would take the producers to court, under the new law, the court would not find the producers guilty of anything and thus, at last, Stitches can be performed in local theatres on this island?

It means two things. Firstly that in order to produce the play there is a new system in place that allows the producers to be their own “censors” insofar as classification is concerned. Secondly you will always be open to the possibility that some dumbfuck decides to literally interpret a play – not necessarily blasphemy or obscenity in that case but even, let’s say, contemplation of murder and proceeds to report it to the authorities. In which case other laws (and interpretations) will come into play. This kind of test will always be there – we just have to hope that our judiciary get a bit more “literary” and a bit less “literal”.

I have not read the Appeals Court judgment and doubt if you Jacques or the other commentators did. Therefore I will refrain, at least now, from commenting on the judgement. However I think the main point to be discussed is not the “literal” vs the “literary” view but the limits of freedom of expressions in the light of the values of society. I also deplore the stupid ad hominem comments on Fr Joe Borg, Judge Mifsud Bonnici and others.

Assumptions David assumptions. I did read the case, I do think the judge were more concerned with literal than literary reading of the law and I do think that the final judgement distorted the concept of freedom of expression. As for stupid ad hominem comments I am sure that others can defend themselves perfectly without you making a hash of it.

As I stated previously, the point at issue was the protection of values and the limits of freedom of expression. I quote the conclusion reached by the learned judges of the Court of Appeal after examining European Court of Human Rights judgements

“Hu, ghalhekk, li l-Bord ta’ Klassifika f’dan il-kaz agixxa tajjeb u korrettement. Il-projbizzjoni tal-produzzjoni teatrali tad-dramm ma kinitx wahda kapricjuza jew esagerata f’dan il-kaz, izda kienet tirrispondi ghal bzonn socjali tal-protezzjoni tal-moralita` pubblika fis-socjeta` Maltija, kif
ukoll ghal bzonn illi d-drittijiet ta’ haddiehor jigu protetti.”

The fact that I am not happy with the reaction to the decision has nothing to do with whether or not I agree with the substance and content of the case. In actual fact I do believe that the learned judges have made quite a hash out of this situation and that an appeal to the Strasbourg courts will indubitably rectify the unfortunate and absurd situation that such a judgement creates.

The law cannot and will not be an arbiter of literary content and taste and we cannot let the right to feel offended prevail over the right to express oneself.

Every day in hundreds of faith establishments across the island there is staged a ritual during which, members of a congregation actually believe that the body and blood of a god made man is transubstantiated. It is a metaphorical celebration of what they would call the victory of life over death. The moment somebody attends one such ritual and claims to be offended by the gory implications of what is after all a very bloody affair you will suddenly stop declaiming these learned judges and the dangerous precedent that they have set.

I can only agree on one thing David, that people like you need to be protected from the danger of being offended by such plays as Stitching. Which is why I believe that a clear warning on the ticket and before the performance should suffice to keep you safely ensconced away from any challenges that the brutal reality of the world might throw your way.

Ite missa est.

If the law cannot be an arbiter of literary taste, are the infinitely wise judges in Strasbourg to Biblically wash their hands off this case?

We know that according to Maltese, European and international laws there are limits to freedom of expression as is the case of obscenity (the leading United States case Miller), and also the reputation of others (as in libel and defamation laws). There also similar laws in many countries against offending others (hate legislation, and the UK Public Order Act, blasphemy laws and others).

The relevance of transubstantiation to the Constitutional Court Judgment on Stitching defies all forms of human comprehension. In the thousands of years the miracle described as “body and blood …. is transubstantiated” (I think it is the other way round) has been celebrated and in the whole wide world where similar ceremonies are held, no one has objected to this aspect of the celebration as being gory.

Since ita missa est is old hat, I will end with immorru fil-paċi ta’ Kristu.

What’s this Dave? A battle of seniority? For that matters plays and dramas have been held for much longer than what you call a miracle. You must feel really uncomfortable in your lose-lose situation because either you have not read Stitching and are speaking from your arse or you have read it and find it offensive (incidentally the court does not find Stitiching offensive or blasphemous – it simply accepts the assessment of the Film Board) which simply shows that you have as mediocre a grasp of literary metaphor as the average man. Which makes sense in the end.

You do not want to limit freedom of expression in case of obscenity you want to apply the socialist scythe of collective ignorance … “if you cannot understand it, then it is best not put on as a show.”

And by the way … it’s itE missa est.

Do judges qualify as average men? Is Stitching staged for unaverage men?

I do not think you read the judgement carefully. I quote again:

“Ma hemm ebda dubbju li l-produzzjoni kienet xorta twassal il-messagg li trid tibghat kieku uzat kliem, qawwi iva, izda mhux necessarjament li jikkontjeni dagha, oxxenitajiet, perversitajiet, u dawk li huma insulenti u espressjonijiet tassew degredanti jew razzisti u dan ukol u fil-konfront ta’ diversi persuni minhabba n-nazzjonalita`, is-sess,it-twemmin, u stat taghhom fost affarijiet ohra, anke fuq imsemmija.”

Ikolli nammetti, sieheb, li ghandek ragun. Ma qrajthiex kollha ta’ Ginsberg. Pero’ naf li xi hadd kien hazzez “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by censorship” fuq dik ir-rampa originali li tinstab Balluta Bay, in the heart of Maaaaaahltaaaah’s tourist hub. Dejjem dehrli li kienet xi ftit ezagerata bhala stqarrija, izda helwa fl-istess hin, hemm, mitfugha ghall-gharrieda taht dak il-bini kitsch colonial by some budding Banksy (naaaaaat!). Ta’ Ginsberg ma qrajthiex kollha. Altre cose, si, pero’. Next stop Stassers (laqam ghal Strasbourg fost id-diaspora Britannika dan). Pleasures yet to come, eeeeeeeeh…

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