| | So I really don't like poetry.
Not that you need to know why or that I don't like it, but I'm just sick of poetry and how much people love it so I thought I'd put out a counterpoint. Sure, Shel Silverstein is awesome, but that's because it's funny and rhymes. It's not some abstract insight into the "human condition"...much. I just don't like flowery words and randomly placed inflections.
"The words so sweetly
as if in embers
crawl from my pregnant lips
in sighs of broken chains
we begin"
It's like I'm at lesbian camp all over again. Sitting in the wet grass at cocoa house listening to a bunch of hairy-legged counselors slam about how hard and amazing it is to be an independent woman. Some MFA could spend months pouring over that thing I wrote and come to the conclusion that it's the single most ground-breaking and awe inspiring representation of the life a of a harp seal.
Maybe I just don't get it. Maybe it's something with which you have to naturally be in tune, I don't know. All I know is that you can have your poetry, just leave me out of it.
I suppose this was spurred by Stumble. After all, for some reason they group prose and poetry together so while I get some awesome book sites and writing tips, I also stumble upon web pages that have nothing on them except a poem by some famous person that throws random words together and expects me to understand.
Okay I'll stop now. But if the poem above intersted you, check out Justine's Book of Poetic Bullshit at your local library.
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| | Posted 7/12/2009 11:53 AM - 6 Views - 2 eProps - 1 Comment
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