Poetry sucks

[MikeNaked]

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And English departments that force students to read it should be done away with. It's gay.

And for an analogy:

Poetry : Literature actually worth reading

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Finger paintings by a blind kid with Down Syndrome : Mona Lisa

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Didn't read the whole thread but I wanted to point out that music, film, and art all suck too.

[MikeNaked]

I like a look of Agony,
Because I know it's true --
Men do not sham Convulsion,
Nor simulate, a Throe --

The Eyes glaze once -- and that is Death --
Impossible to feign
The Beads upon the Forehead
By homely Anguish strung.

- Emily Dickenson

I love that crazy bitch.

[Saddlepoint]

Roses are red
Violets are blue
You're probably gay
YSSCKY

[imported_anacardo]

The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
by Randall Jarrell

From my mother's sleep I fell into the State,
And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.
Six miles from earth, loosed from the dream of life,
I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.
When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.

One of my favorites.

I'm also a huge, huge William Blake fan.