why?

[Todd]

I started writing rant-like angry diatribes which were low on imagery and high on word play. I mostly gravitated to free verse and started out with confessional topics because it's what I was reading (Plath, Gluck, Sexton, Olds, Forche). I gradully started developing metaphor and imagery, and my stuff got less about me being pissed off. I wrote some love poetry but most of it was deconstructionist, ironic, and stark. I'll post one of my early love poems for you guys to see in the critique forum." I almost think it would be cool to put a thread here called: "My early shitty work" and post some of the crap we first started writing...though that may be too painful for some to want to dredge up.