(June 19, 2012 at 4:45 pm)gringoperry Wrote:(June 19, 2012 at 4:39 pm)Brian37 Wrote: One of the best jokes told to me, actually when I was a liberal Christian, long ago was by a friend at the time "I am the only Jewish kid sent to Catholic school, that way I get to feel twice as guilty about everything I do"/
Haha, love it. I read some of your poetry, btw, pretty impressive.
Awe shucks, but I do have my critics. Some people cant stand it because it isn't metered and I capitalize every line. But having been reading poetry for 25 years almost, you learn quickly that art really is subjective. Feel I get lucky and will defend tooth and nail the stuff I feel is good. But I will not put myself in the class of Plath or Poe. My strength is subject matter, not technique. I have never understood the poets who spend so much time on 50$ words and couplet meter so much that the message might as well be a dog whistle.
But thanks in any case.
