The world NEEDS bad poetry.
01/15/2004 08:28 p.m.
Poetry doesn't need to be be beautiful. I think that's a really odd presumption we've all grown to have about poetry. I might be just making excuses for some of my less then pretty works, but really, why should we succumb to the notion that all poetry has to be flowy, rhythmic, perfect works of art? why not just art? Art is not always conventionally beautiful. Why should poetry be different. Alot of times poetry falls flat on it's face, or else it trip and stumbles all over itself. Why should it be graceful all the time. I think the world needs bad poetry. Ya, that's right, BAD BAD BAD poetry. Cheesy rhyming couplet poetry and poetry where the lines are jarring and saddening because the rhythym is so pitiful that you want to break your eardrums over the hard and soft sounds. We, as a culture, need bad poetry.

Beautiful poetry reflects what life can be, and the metamorphisis of life situations, like turning the mundane into something shimmering, or the tragic into something gorgeous.

BAD poetry is needed to embody the idea of what life really IS sometimes. The reality. Jarring, stubling, awkward, off pace and even boring.

Yes, the world would be lost without bad poetry to wake us up to the capabilities and the growth of other people around us. Everyone's a work in progress until they die, right?

I am currently Good
I am listening to "what rhymes with warm?" (I think: Storm, dorm...)