What’s wrong with poetry?

[shemthepenman]

now forgive me if I am wrong (and I’m kinda joining this a bit late in the day), but this whole discussion was set in motion by a few innocuous comments made by a couple of people about [forgive me] a rather poor poem [to be polite] and the spaces after the commas. And although there have been some interesting questions raised in this thread [particularly Todd’s about what originality is and why some good others not etc.] , it seems to me if one bases the great originality of a poem and evolution of language and poetry etc. on where one puts a fucking comma that’s what magicians call misdirection. There is a simple scientific process that one can adopt called ‘experimentation’. Instead of pissing and moaning that, oh no one understands me, rather try out the suggestions. Put a space there does it take anything away from the poem, does it add anything. Oh look, it does both, takes away you looking like a silly sod and adds a bit of readability. done.