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This is a common feeling. Poetry is not about reducing poems to paraphrases or deducing what they "mean". It's about enjoying the art of language. Look for relationships between words, tension, irony, juxtaposition, etc.
Wait, is this for real?
Because I noticed last night when I was getting close to waking up and I was fighting it that the world started spinning around me. Could be a coincidence?
they don't even rhyme
It's word art. You need to let yourself open up to impressions, rather than trying to study and understand it.
Let yourself connect emotionally, and let the words shape that connection.
I KNOW
I can just pick and choose them.
The same night that whitens the same trees.
We, we who were, we are the same no longer.
I no longer love her, true, but how much I did love her.
My voice searched the wind to touch her ear.
Someone else's. She will be someone else's. As it was before my kisses.
Her voice, her white body. Her infinite eyes.
there was always a driver inside ready to take over if shit fucked up but apparently it never did
nevada now awarded one of the cars a license
p badass if you ask me
That is because some poets suck. It should speak to everyone. Try reading the two that I linked.
I sit in my cubicle, here on the motherworld. When I die, they will put my body in a box and dispose of it in the cold ground. And in all the million ages to come, I will never breathe or laugh or twitch again. So won't you run and play with me here among the teeming mass of humanity? The universe has spared us this moment.
Purge.
it was in bank verse
LOL
Like literally I try to read it and my mind draws a blank.
That is pretty awesome.
Than, I didn't expect ten thousand lines, but you could have posted a snippet, if you have a favorite stanza.
Desc I am regularly jelly of your hippie upbringing
This is like trying to please everybody, which is to say, impossible.
I have found a strange kind of medium by altering things that are already there rather than introducing new elements.
Also my brain fights back and tries to impose limits on me. For instance, I can't always make myself fly or something because my brain has decided the rules already and flying is outside of them. Generally when I try to over-write that too much is when I wake up.
im too lazy to get a dog now and when i was young my mother claimed to be allergic to furry animals
which i later discovered was a lie
she denied me dog
So lame. I bet your favourite band is nickelback.
More like a learners permit.
they still need two people in the car when it is in motion, one to take over if it goes all skynet on us, and one to monitor the computer.
The license plate will be red, to denote to all passengers on the road that the car is "different"
their hope however, is that in 3-5 years, that they will be able to switch over to "green" plates, and allow people to just ride in them without having to monitor actions or anything.
Owning a car and being a lousy drunk will be safer than ever!
When you are told about the old man from Nantucket, let it inform your sense of ennui and the futility of life. Let it speak to you as someone who experiences the human condition. Or in this case, the human condition of having a very large penis.
Let me attempt to change that:
The first company to make a self-driving bed-car gets my money.
I think it was Vonnegut that wrote a bit about the fictitious poetry magazine that went under despite being inundated with submissions every month. People like to write "poetry" a damn sight more than they like to read other people's poems.
#FreeScheck
#FreeSKFM
but i don't feel that way about english majors. @Evil Multifarious has an incredibly tighter grasp on english and composition than i do- his education served him well. but i think he's also smarter than me in general and he was able to engage the material and grow from it. but in general, it feels to me like english majors don't have exacting standards from a school's perspective, or that they might not take the material seriously. when i speak with an english major, rarely do i feel like their grasp of the language or sociolinguistics or literary analysis or whatever 'dwarfs' mine. they may be a little more polished and know a few more facts, but in the aggregate they tend to not make me feel like they are significantly more educated than me. i don't know if i'd say that's a unique position for them but i can't think of any others that make me feel the same way.
btw no offense intended. just trying to be real, brahs. bouncing my thoughts around n' shit.
Contemporary poetry is pretty similar. Mostly poets reading other poets, and a lot of small press magazines (see: the majority of where contemporary poetry lives) get thousands of submissions each month, most by people who have never read the magazine.
Turtle chat is weird chat.
...I guess that's about having sex?
It's still mostly gibberish though.
I feel this way about the vast majority of Psych majors also.
I know way more about Psychology than the other Psych majors I graduated with, and let's be honest I am not king of psychology.