05-12-2012, 06:16 AM
Poetry for shock value is barely poetry at all. It's like saying that a streaker is the same as a Botticelli nude. If you're going to write about a difficult subject, don't do it based on information you've found in comic books or someone's blogging fantasies -- really put yourself in the position (not physically, obviously). Good poets can write about any subject, from any POV, because good poets can suspend their own judgments at least for the length of the poem.
It could be worse