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|  | "Phanton Fell Swoop" by JJ Burke
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Hello, and welcome to the public discussion forum of Fantastic Horror. The topic of this thread is "Phantom Fell Swoop" by JJ Burke, featured in Issue #8.
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| | Re: "Phanton Fell Swoop" by JJ Burke
« Reply #1 on Oct 4, 2008, 5:23am » | |
as i was writing this poem (a few years ago, i'm not sure when), i saw how it had been prompted by invasion of the body snatchers. i had recently watched one of the movie versions and at some point had a dream related to that concept, and the feeling i meant to capture in this poem is what i remember from that.
i was one of the pod people, having already snatched and absorbed my human counterpart, except instead of a mass invasion of us pod people, i was only aware of myself being one among regular humans. and there was a gathering of family and friends, and they were all suspicious of 'the new jj' but i felt like i was just as attached to them as the old jj must have been. this created a mixture of guilt and amnesia and dread that stayed with me and always occurs to me when one of these snatchers flicks goes by.
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| | Re: "Phanton Fell Swoop" by JJ Burke
« Reply #2 on Oct 4, 2008, 1:01pm » | |
Oct 4, 2008, 5:23am, JJ Burke wrote:| i was only aware of myself being one among regular humans. and there was a gathering of family and friends, and they were all suspicious of 'the new jj' but i felt like i was just as attached to them as the old jj must have been. this created a mixture of guilt and amnesia and dread that stayed with me and always occurs to me when one of these snatchers flicks goes by. |
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Dr. Hartley: Well, JJ, our time is up for this session. Next week, we'll focus more on that mixture of guilt and amnesia and dread that has stayed with you.
Meanwhile, I want to remind you that such feelings are (heh, heh) normal; or, at least in the range of normal. Well, it's a broad range. That is, I don't want to mis-use the term, normal. After all (ahem) who is to say that one thing is more normal than another?
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| | Re: "Phanton Fell Swoop" by JJ Burke
« Reply #4 on Oct 4, 2008, 3:31pm » | |
I never would have come up with the "Body Snatchers" meme without help. It definitely helps me interpret the poem.
In fact, it may be worthwhile to alert the readers to this context -- perhaps it's even worth sacrificing the great current title and renaming the piece: "My Body, Snatched"
Or not.
In any event, I prefer the loss of mystery in exchange for an improved grasp of intent and meaning.
The use of rhyme and meter, by the way, suits my taste to a "T". The structure of the poem doesn't stilt its flow. Ironically, I seem to enjoy poetry most when it is not obvious to me that it actually is poetry.
Perhaps that means I don't fully appreciate the ... er ... POETRY in poetry. I guess it's yet another aspect of my curse: My brain contains plenty of left hemisphere, but an underdeveloped (and/or atrophied) right.
LONG LIVE LINEAR LOGIC!
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