09-01-2012, 11:34 AM
Even if you produce nothing but turds, if you're willing to go down the chute with them, rather than wipe yourself clean of what you believe, in order to satisfy, well anyone, then that says something. Unless you have a martyr complex. But then that says something else. Sometimes a poet is insane, whatever that means; and his poetry is saying a lot, and he does wish it would make sense to somebody, like it makes sense to him. Poetry has many roads it can travel. Even a road to Hell or humiliation. The road to compromise is the only dead end in my opinion, and if you deserve to drown you have to accept that.