are there things you dislike about poetry

[billy]

the patently perfect poem or turds. i don't think anyone but the writer loves them. i love an original poem but the problem is, many poets equate original with great or good, often they just write original shite. formal education or an education from a wolf pack. education is education, if you read and write half decent poetry, you're pretty much an educated person and afar as language goes. a formal education gives a person some of the rudiments that a non formal education gives. i don't see it as being about background or what education one had or didn't have. personally i had virtually no school taught education. (yes, you may guffaw you bastards) nut i don't resent it. in fact i sometimes envy (though that's a strong word) their knowledge, their readings of great poetry and poets, their understanding of what a semi fucking colon is? they have the perfect set of tools. all they need do is learn how to use them. i learn from them, i see how they write a sonnet or villynilly and try to emulate the form; often a form i don't care for, but it pushes me. i see people say think out of the box and i often don't get it. can't we think out of a box when writing form poetry?
why does it have to be out their breaking boundaries to be great poetry. often the trouble with poetry that's written outside the box is the fact that no other fucker sees it why not write on the side of the box where we can peaek over and spy it mmmm

the patently perfect poem; it's often the type of poem the newb tries to write. i have no problem with that; in fact i like to see it because i know there's hope that craft will lead them out of temptation. after all, isn't that why this hovel called the pig pen is here. to workshop the shit out of the patently perfect poem. i know for a fact my poetry has improved because of it.