are there things you dislike about poetry

[billy]

the "i am man whatchg strutt" sort of stuff, though i may have done so at one time

That male strutting is very Bukowski He was always braggin' about how cool he was and the varied adventures of his dick

yes but his stuff was about him, his life, and not about how he helped pull men out of or into depravity. it was about how he saw himself and others. not how if it wasn't for him all drunks would be able to seek help etc. i use to hate him, but i think that's because i didn't actually know anything about his poetry, all i ever heard about him was what others said. i doubt maya could write a cat poem like his.

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And to tie that in with what Billy asked about bad behaviour in another thread, I'm a notorious skirt-chaser. But needless to say, that rarely gets as far as my pessimistic heart trying to make a poem for the Poems For Fun category.

yeah but i get the feeling that you mix pessimism with sadness or depression or a negative thing. i'm more or less the pessimist but i'm a happy one. i see the for fun forum as just that. for fun, i'm sure a pessimistic poem could be for fun. when we talk about boxes and poetry thats the boxes i don't like. we can do anything with poetry in any way we choose. i just like to be able to decipher it now and again.
there's nothing wrong with skirt chasing or catching we're all adults who can tell someone it's okay or to fuck off. a poet skirt chaser. i thought i was the only one okay, ex one.