I’m going to improve the Art form with some wondrous insights into the state of Poetry, Here goes, you better not read this if you’re sensitive, better yet, read it. You probably need it.
I’m in one of those moods. What the fuck. I seldom write about other Poets because most of them suck and what would be the point? I’m not going talk about command of the language especially with my penchant for saying fuck at least ten times a write. Well I lied I am. While I have been called obscene I can handle that because I am when I want to be. Please don’t make the mistake of thinking I use language for simple shock value; while that does come in handy and I have employed it, for example “Dear Mom, go fuck yourself!” I am what you hear. Fuck is a good honest word. So fuck you. And if I wanted to shock you and you pissed me off I would say something like, “I’ll dig up your dead Mother and skull fuck her” That’s shocking, see the difference?
But I can also be mellifluous when I want to be, see, the choice is mine. My point here is for those Poets who care about the craft try reading and not comic books, too many of you have limited vocabularies and imaginations and a Poet with a limited vocabulary and imagination is fucked, see? It fits.
Subject matter.
Lose the “I!” gave a cursory look (see I didn’t use I) at some of my writes and only about 30% use I, meaning moi. This is my personal preference, I try to look at universal themes like getting laid under an assumed name, castrating by ex-wife’s lawyer or boring things like Death, Justice, immorality, eternity etc. Shit you should be looking at but your too busy whining. Do me a favor and check yourself out, If you are constantly using “I” you are boring the shit out of your readers, Stop whining will ya? Your readers will not tell you cause they don’t want to get a negative review on their next whineathon. Yea, I don’t have to worry about that cause no one reads me so I can piss everyone off with impunity. Sometimes it pays to be unloved.
I will return to this subject matter later because Bambi is on TV and his Mom just got hammered with a 30 odd six, and I’m getting a little misty eyed. I don’t wanna lose my edge here.
To be continued…









Losing the I is great advice Quas… sometimes when I’m too distraught I use it just to get out what needs to be let out, but those are usually the poems I stick in the archives or don’t post… those are more like diary entries. But we all do it, I think (use ‘I’, that is.. why do you always got a dirty mind…sheeshh). It’s fun to challenge a thought and not use I. The write always comes out better.. but of course those streaming poems… well, the I’s have a tendency to flow and sometimes that’s ok. After all, you start putting rules on poetry and it soon becomes anti-poetry… the kind of poetry that would be written by a guy who looks like he had an oaken shaft stuck up his ass… just sayin…
I think the best way to deal with writing poetry is to not get stuck in a certain form, certain style. Try different things. Rhyme.. no rhyme.. internal rhyme… acrostics… different line variations… scattering words around the page… collabs… old world.. modern… whatever. I know the writing group pages helped me out a lot there, challenging my view on words and putting them together.
Now the next phase of your write is gonna be… wait for it.… lose the ellipses… I can see it already.…
Yea, Just trying to help my poetically challenged colleagues.
Seriously, I poetry can be great it’s just that it’s not the only toy in Santa’s poetic sack.
hahahaha… yesss… santa has many treats in his sack…
I just lost all respect for all those poets
I thought
I knew
I could continue to read them… however
I just couldn’t live with the shame of knowing
I didn’t try to stop them from using the “I“
I am sorry oddpoet
I am oh so sorry
I think…
I will
stop
I yi Yiiii… Ya been sent by Demon Lords to torture me I see. It’s fun every once in a while to fuck with everyone. I dust a variation of the write off bout once a year. Intellectual stuff like You suck cock as a poet or why you blow and should kill yourself. They are always my most read writes. I usually put a caveat in where I say, “If you ask yourself, Is he talking about me?” I probably am. Thanks Man.