Years ago another poet tried to flimflam me by a word,
"Althusserian", of great beauty but very little significance,
so far as i could discover. Maybe now it has one.

It has always bothered me that the division in sonnets
between the octave & the sestet, comes about six
syllables short of dividing this 140 syllable form into
the Golden Section. E.g. 86 + 53 = 139 for a much
more numerologically satisfying arrangement. Or 137
= 85 + 52, which i have sometimes lineated as 13-11-13-
11-13-11-13 & 11-9-7-9-7-9. For a long time i only wrote
thirteen line sonnets ("treizains"), & the same numbers
i mentioned above for 137 syllables total can easily be
lineated into 11-10-11-10-11-10-11-11 & 10-10-11-10-11.

The trouble with Magnetic Poetry for me always has been
that its vocabulary, while perhaps "poetical" enough for
the non-poet, makes saying anything new & interesting
virtually impossible. However, with Shakespeare Magnet
Poetry, that just might have been solved.

Gustav Meyrink wasn't just your regular Decadent drug-taking
occultist visionary writer--he lived in Prague. (Unfortunately,
there is very little on the internet about him in English.) I
recommend all his novels--The Golem is a classic--they are
still in print in paperback, i believe.

When you get burnt out on hard rock, it's time for the
triple-saxophone noise music of Borbetomagus.