05-30-2013, 08:16 AM
What is a poet's job in society? To masquerade as the saddest members of society and join in lynch mobs calling them freaks? Perhaps poetry is purely a show of technical skill, perhaps that is all that people should be concerned about here, but I'd hate to see the heart ripped out of poetry because once that's done all you really have is superfluous skill.... Unless maybe you can hypnotize someone with your rhymes and rhythms. If you're a poet there's a good chance you're crazy. If there is any truth to be gotten from history poet's in the past have been crazy... Or perhaps we can all shrug and say "To hell with it all we're going to die anyway!" 