There's No Reason To Be Nice And Good

[chris_the_princess]

                     There's No Reason To Be Nice And Good
                                                                     for Sarah Ewald

I'm bad
because the orgasm of the world is death,
and I want to be good.

No vicious envy curtails my pride,
I don't use faggoty words like 'curtail';
only a master reader could be as slavish as that.
What was that someone said about indifference to your hearers.

No, 
I don't even ask a question
but tell you of, in one off effort:

the secret of the curling hair,
the softness of persistent stress.

They don't make too many good things anymore,
it's so easy and so much better to be bad,
they make just enough.

In a sense of context, this poem intrigues me. I am more interested in the rhythm and format at this second though. The first three lines confuse me. It seems line 3 should have followed line 1 and not line 2 following line 1. It seems more logical. Also in line two when you refer to the 'orgasm of the world' are you saying what turns earth on? Because earth is an inanimate object. If you are referring to humanity, I would like to hear your elaboration on the idea of death. In a one sentence summary for the rest of the poem, I feel that it is more of a thought process and not a structured flow of words. There is nothing wrong with free writing, I just feel that if you could improve the process to be a straight line instead of a curvy graph, it would greatly improve your poem. Nevertheless it is thought provoking.