What is the deal with free verse?

[Brownlie]

I've read this term is deceptive, what do you think free verse should do?

[rowens]

Anything you can do with it without doing nothing with it.

All terms are deceptive. Or free verse would be stupid. It's stupid sometimes anyway.

What should you do with stupid?

Anything you can do with it without doing nothing with it.

[serge gurkski]

Maybe read Jazz poetry like Bob Kaufman:

"On

On yardbird corners of embryonic hopes, drowned in a heroin tear.
On yardbird corners of parkerflights to sound filled pockets in space.
On neuro-corners of striped brains & desperate electro-surgeons.
On alcohol corners of pointless discussion & historical hangovers.
On television corners of cornflakes & rockwells impotent America.
On university corners of tailored intellect & greek letter openers.
On military corners of megathon deaths & universal anesthesia.
On religious corners of theological limericks and
On radio corners of century-long records & static events.
On advertising corners of filter-tipped ice-cream & instant instants
On teen-age corners of comic book seduction and corrupted guitars,
On political corners of wamted candidates & ritual lies.
On motion picture corners of lassie & other symbols.
On intellectual corners of conversational therapy & analyzed fear.
On newspaper corners of sexy headlines & scholarly comics.
On love divided corners of die now pay later mortuaries.
On philosophical corners of semantic desperadoes & idea-mongers.
On middle class corners of private school puberty & anatomical revolts
On ultra-real corners of love on abandoned roller-coasters
On lonely poet corners of low lying leaves & moist prophet eyes."

http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poe...epoems.htm

or: Sunflower Sutra by Ginsburg:
http://boppin.com/sunflower.html

or just write sth. ;-)

or read rowen or bukowski etc etc etc

and see what it can do for you.

cheers