Don't blame the form

[rowens]

We're living in a multimedia context. If you put ode to joy over a suicide or rape scene in a movie it's going to change ode to joy. But the fact that ode to joy is known to be a joyous song adds to the horror. But since such things as that have been done to death, there needs to be a new way. Either people are going to recognize these cultural cues/or they're not. So I don't think we're arguing on anything. I'm just making broad statements that I tend to believe that just goes along with me just talking, and like Tan Lin says, I had to go through my bookshelf a while to find a good quote, ''After a certain point, there are no more things to be said, talking is a nonsensical covering for the rude silence that cannot be concealed.'' I used that quote at the beginning of a self-published book years ago that I never published.

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I don't like beat poetry.