what about how an internet persona is more entertaining than books that include a how-to doc as a preface
im not sure what poetry should be doing
but the more something is something the more whatever is like whoa
i don’t want myself or anyone else to learn anything new ever again from this point to forever amen
said the only worthwhile poetry is poetry that makes people either fistpump or cry and was laughed at, that’s a start i guess
read this Cathy Wagner post about university teaching
teaching has been discouraged to the point where people who would be good at it should instead start wheatfield bonfires for a living
just learn to like doing something else man
poetry sux
music sux
time to go practice backhandsprings
I just wrote this in a response to this, and I’m reposting it here because it feels right:
I’m going to use numbers here because it’s late and I’m zonked.
1. Time is the greatest hero and greatest villain to culture. 99%+ of what’s been published in the last ten years, small press or big…