tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2874155205423552780.post6694816603450692163..comments2014-12-31T13:17:49.358-08:00Comments on Poets Are Lame (and other stuff Mike Finley taught me): The Lazy Poet Test? (Do You Dare 2 Take It?)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02748441484232139833noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2874155205423552780.post-18090419218898325642012-07-21T07:16:58.169-07:002012-07-21T07:16:58.169-07:00yeah....that's what I was trying to say. LOLyeah....that's what I was trying to say. LOLAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02748441484232139833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2874155205423552780.post-82244368256698914442012-07-20T20:46:28.451-07:002012-07-20T20:46:28.451-07:00Why a Poem and Not Prose?
I acknowledge from the ...Why a Poem and Not Prose?<br /><br />I acknowledge from the outset<br />you lose 99% of readers <br />because they hate it this way<br /><br />we live in prose, we toil in prose, <br />we wish we could spend every minute in prose<br />because it's manageable and workmanlike<br /><br />and reasonable,<br />you can measure yourself against it<br />hell you can even write it<br /><br />whereas poetry raises so many doubts<br />it is a temptation to lay it on thick<br />and getting vacuumed up your own butthole<br /><br />sometimes a shark is taking bites of you<br />your chum is bleeding into the ocean around you<br />a poem allows it, and paragraphs don't<br /><br />or we wake from a terror dream <br />and there is God by the maple bureau<br />and he's clicking his mandibles<br /><br />and sometimes you just need <br />to stuff a hummingbird <br />in a milkweed pod<br /><br />and for that a milkweed pod is idealMike Finley ~ Big Vanillahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09944010073428661081noreply@blogger.com