07-30-2015, 04:22 PM
All of those ideals are important and no doubt plenty of poets will say that one or more of them are why they pour so much energy into this game -- but at the end of the day, it's really nothing more exotic than mental masturbation. Poets are wankers, and if it feels good, that's the only reason you need to do it.
Unfortunately, like most masturbation, you feel good for a bit but eventually you realise how unfulfilled you really are. You keep doing it because it gives you short-term release, but if someone came along tomorrow and offered you millions of dollars (actually, thousands would do) to stop, you'd realise how unsatisfying poetry actually is.
And then you'd keep doing it anyway, because you're a masochist.
Unfortunately, like most masturbation, you feel good for a bit but eventually you realise how unfulfilled you really are. You keep doing it because it gives you short-term release, but if someone came along tomorrow and offered you millions of dollars (actually, thousands would do) to stop, you'd realise how unsatisfying poetry actually is.
And then you'd keep doing it anyway, because you're a masochist.
It could be worse