04-26-2014, 09:00 AM
(04-26-2014, 05:07 AM)rowens Wrote: I posted this poem at the same time as another poem. Both of them weren't really poems, though they are. They are poems in the sense that I presented them as if they were poems; but they're not poems, they're simply fancy displays of spite and bitterness. My aim was self-indulgent inaccessibility. After the fact, I tried to read more into them, after I'd initially distanced myself from them by carelessly throwing them together. I made a few minor changes to make them less accessible and fixed some typos. That was it. Then I got more interested in the character speaking. And that's what I care about. But what other people say about the poem as a poem makes perfect sense in the context in which it's presented. But I have no intention for this poem to make sense. It all spins on the point of saying, "That is the point." What is the point? There is no point. It's a very inspired nihilistic thing. You can say whatever you want about it or take it any way you want. I don't like the poem. It was just another point for me to spin on and from.
Hmm... am i understanding you correctly to be responding, in part, to my comments as comments intended to help the poem make sense?
My comments were actually intended to address the poem's not making sense qua increasing and perfecting its not making sense.
Those were suggestions I felt would help it not make sense more perfectly.