03-31-2014, 05:29 AM
Wow, Heart, that's a pretty unpleasant experience... but of course you need not fear here, we are all living together in an ivory tower 
If 95% (a generous 95%, of course) are not interested in reading what I write, then I will write as well as I am able for the remaining 5% so that they need not settle for something less than what they enjoy. We have all, of course, lamented from time to time that poetry has died -- this, like many other things poets say, is hyperbole. Even if it is dead, we maggots and other parasites will continue to squirm about in its corpse until we are strong enough to infest another.
If 95% (a generous 95%, of course) are not interested in reading what I write, then I will write as well as I am able for the remaining 5% so that they need not settle for something less than what they enjoy. We have all, of course, lamented from time to time that poetry has died -- this, like many other things poets say, is hyperbole. Even if it is dead, we maggots and other parasites will continue to squirm about in its corpse until we are strong enough to infest another.
It could be worse