The Fucked up State of Poetry

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…

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5 Responses to “The Fucked up State of Poetry”

  1. Para says:

    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… Razz

    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.… Wink

    • oddpoet1 says:

      Yea, Just try­ing to help my poet­i­cally chal­lenged col­leagues. Smile Seri­ously, I poetry can be great it’s just that it’s not the only toy in Santa’s poetic sack.

  2. Para says:

    haha­haha… yesss… santa has many treats in his sack… Grin

  3. Murphy Clamrod says:

    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

  4. oddpoet1 says:

    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.

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