04-04-2017, 06:19 AM
Is it cos you're a freak? Or a weirdo? 
Don't love it or hate it when you read it, just experience it. Love and hate will come later, when it seeps into you and you realise that it's changed you and you're either quite pleased with the change or frustrated as hell. Love and hate are good. Apathy is bad -- the poems that leave you cold and wondering what it is you're missing since so many other people seem to just love this poet to bits but you think they're mostly fraud. Sometimes it's because they're too much like yourself. Sometimes it's because they're too much like someone you'll never have anything in common with.
Most of all, I love the poets who write in ways that I've never thought of. I want poetry that's new and exciting, that leads me to different places, that opens windows where there used to be only walls. You're writing tiny dribbles into a vast ocean of poetry that spans millennia -- at one time or another, everyone who's ever written anything worth reading has felt overwhelmed by that reality.
Don't love it or hate it when you read it, just experience it. Love and hate will come later, when it seeps into you and you realise that it's changed you and you're either quite pleased with the change or frustrated as hell. Love and hate are good. Apathy is bad -- the poems that leave you cold and wondering what it is you're missing since so many other people seem to just love this poet to bits but you think they're mostly fraud. Sometimes it's because they're too much like yourself. Sometimes it's because they're too much like someone you'll never have anything in common with.
Most of all, I love the poets who write in ways that I've never thought of. I want poetry that's new and exciting, that leads me to different places, that opens windows where there used to be only walls. You're writing tiny dribbles into a vast ocean of poetry that spans millennia -- at one time or another, everyone who's ever written anything worth reading has felt overwhelmed by that reality.
It could be worse