01-09-2011, 09:32 AM
(01-09-2011, 09:22 AM)billy Wrote: they thought i was having a go at them when in fact i was just being bluntly honest. it was a raoe come pedo poem that as far as i could discern had no merit what so ever. it was cliche, lacking any poetic devices and a basically in your face this will shock you because of the graphic nature piece, which in all honesty was neither graphic or realistic.Oh yes I remember this. The poet sent me a message as well, saying what a meanie you were
it was something i'd expect from a low I.Q,'d village idiot with additional brain damage. weird thing was he'd got lots of praise for it being punchy and down to earth gritty etc. i just saw it as a bag of shite and explained to the poet why that was., i was asked to read another one then and see what i thought about that, needless to say it was the same but i didn't reply.
. The sad thing is that he's actually a good artist, when he leaves the paedo stuff alone, but he labours under the pretension that artless shock is redemptive somehow to both the reader and the writer.
"We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges." - Gene Wolfe

