Comments on: The filthiest task. http://indianwriting.blogsome.com/2006/09/23/197/ "That was the beginning of the century; this is its end. I have been thinking not only of the people who lived there once, but also of the generations of dogs accompanying them in their everyday bustle, and one night— I don't know where it came from— in a predawn sleep, that funny and tender phrase composed itself: a road-side dog." - Czeslaw Milosz, Borderlines. Thu, 17 Dec 2009 06:56:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Phoenix http://indianwriting.blogsome.com/2006/09/23/197/#comment-502 Sun, 08 Oct 2006 17:24:25 +0100 http://indianwriting.blogsome.com/2006/09/23/197/#comment-502 Yes... some of us would be left with poems and rivers if the rest of us did not keep sensationalizing a profession. Nurses, doctors, scientists and all kinds of people come across disgusting situations in their occupation. There is no need to make an issue out of it. Excretion is not disgusting. By trying to represent her job as dealing with disgusting things, you are only making life tougher for her. You are projecting the idea that toilet-cleaning is a disgusting thing to do. We all have it under our skins. We all have shit under our skins. We all can clean shit and see shit-cleaners as normally occupied. It is not a big issue. Writing a poem out of it, like it is a big issue, is shittier! Yes… some of us would be left with poems and rivers if the rest of us did not keep sensationalizing a profession.

Nurses, doctors, scientists and all kinds of people come across disgusting situations in their occupation. There is no need to make an issue out of it.

Excretion is not disgusting. By trying to represent her job as dealing with disgusting things, you are only making life tougher for her. You are projecting the idea that toilet-cleaning is a disgusting thing to do.

We all have it under our skins. We all have shit under our skins. We all can clean shit and see shit-cleaners as normally occupied. It is not a big issue.

Writing a poem out of it, like it is a big issue, is shittier!

]]> by: Phoenix http://indianwriting.blogsome.com/2006/09/23/197/#comment-501 Sun, 08 Oct 2006 17:13:15 +0100 http://indianwriting.blogsome.com/2006/09/23/197/#comment-501 Yes... some of us would be left with poems and rivers if the rest of us did not keep sensationalizing a profession. Nurses, doctors, scientists and all kinds of people come across disgusting situations in their occupation. There is no need to make an issue out of it. Excretion is not disgusting. By trying to represent her job as dealing with disgusting things, you are only making life tougher for her. You are projecting the idea that toilet-cleaning is a disgusting thing to do. We all have it under our skins. We all have shit under our skins. We all can clean shit and see shit-cleaners as normally occupied. It is not a big issue. Writing a poem out of it, like it is a big issue, is shittier! Yes… some of us would be left with poems and rivers if the rest of us did not keep sensationalizing a profession.

Nurses, doctors, scientists and all kinds of people come across disgusting situations in their occupation. There is no need to make an issue out of it.

Excretion is not disgusting. By trying to represent her job as dealing with disgusting things, you are only making life tougher for her. You are projecting the idea that toilet-cleaning is a disgusting thing to do.

We all have it under our skins. We all have shit under our skins. We all can clean shit and see shit-cleaners as normally occupied. It is not a big issue.

Writing a poem out of it, like it is a big issue, is shittier!

]]> by: Kim http://indianwriting.blogsome.com/2006/09/23/197/#comment-495 Wed, 04 Oct 2006 21:41:32 +0100 http://indianwriting.blogsome.com/2006/09/23/197/#comment-495 I read your words. I followed all the links and read them. I sat with everything I learned over a two day period. And, I am still left speechless. What I can say to you and to the other writers is: Thank you for expanding my world, showing me how others lives and surivive, how it can be in a way I did not know how to imagine. I thank you for the education. Kim I read your words. I followed all the links and read them.

I sat with everything I learned over a two day period.

And, I am still left speechless.

What I can say to you and to the other writers is:

Thank you for expanding my world, showing me how others lives and surivive, how it can be in a way I did not know how to imagine.

I thank you for the education.

Kim

]]> by: Sharanya http://indianwriting.blogsome.com/2006/09/23/197/#comment-474 Sat, 23 Sep 2006 04:54:17 +0100 http://indianwriting.blogsome.com/2006/09/23/197/#comment-474 This was stomach churning to read. I hadn't realised that this shockingly horrible practice was still alive to this extent. (Aside -- That's a poem I've liked for ages, the one that intro-d me to Mary Oliver, even though I can't really recall any other single poems of hers. Thought it was interesting how you made that connection.) This was stomach churning to read. I hadn’t realised that this shockingly horrible practice was still alive to this extent.
(Aside — That’s a poem I’ve liked for ages, the one that intro-d me to Mary Oliver, even though I can’t really recall any other single poems of hers. Thought it was interesting how you made that connection.)

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