12-07-2014, 03:55 AM
Well since Slam is more akin to "American Idol" than legitimate poetry, and kept that way by being a contest judged by the overall lowest common denominator of the crowd, what else would you expect? I doubt very few on this site would have any success in Slam. I know I wouldn't. I forced myself to become a competent reader at one point, but I never liked it, and that was many years ago. Energetic public display is what gets the tribal blood rushing, certainly not cold intellectual Miloisms 
N'est-ce pas mon ami ?
N'est-ce pas mon ami ?
How long after picking up the brush, the first masterpiece?
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.