New Jack is Dead

[Tiger the Lion]

Most of my writing is prose fiction. I rarely post any of that. My poems I ad lib on the spot. I wouldn't know how to revise them if I wanted to. I have so-called Learning Disabilities. I don't have any technical sense. What comes out is as it good as it's going to get.

I've grown weary of the revision merry-go-round.  I'm starting to feel like Howard Hughes watching Ice Station Zebra over and over and over.  I just wrote a poem but if I post it anywhere it will be in one of our discussions.  You inspired it in your other post in the other thread.

I know revision is important....well, I don't know it, I don't really even feel it, but it's the law in the main threads and I try to be law abiding out of respect for the glory that Pig Pen can be.  I've learned a lot of humility from the critiques and that was a necessary corrective as I came in back in January thinking I was hot shit when really I'm cold snot (a favorite saying of my father's).  "Slick as greased owl shit" was another.  Now that's poetry.

If Tom (Tektak) were here, he would emphatically say "good egg." 
The sentiment above sorta defines the PP as I see it. 
The poet is always at the disadvantage that he can never see his own work 100% objectively. Some revise too little and some revise too much, or at least too quickly. I rarely manage a substantial revision without losing the "soul" of the poem. But that is down to my personal process and how I feel about a poem once it's "out there." There are poems from 5 years ago that I only feel qualified to revise now. I much more often take advice and observations and apply them to new work. What I'm saying is that if Bob, Rita and James gave me comments on POEM A, I may not revise POEM A much, but damn sure POEM B is written with consideration from what I learned form POEM A. 
***And this, once again prompts me to thank Duke, Busker, Knot and others who consistently offer advice that often looks unemployed. It all goes in the toolbox, revisions or not. 

P.S. Now that I'm done rambling, I only chirped in because you referred to "the law." There really are no laws. An honest exchange of advice and ideas. It's not complicated.