A Poem: Fatigue

O Fatigue,
I’m too tired to
Write a poem about you
To be honest.

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Just reading this exhausts me.

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poetry about poetry. I like it. :wink: :dark_sunglasses:
reminds me of this:

" Of all the sickly forms of verse,
Commend me to the triolet.

It makes bad writers somewhat worse:
Of all the sickly forms of verse,
That fall beneath a reader’s curse,
It is the feeblest jingle yet.

Of all the sickly forms of verse,
Commend me to the triolet."

triolets aren’t bad, but they are very hard to write!

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I was taught poetry at the Iowa writer’s workshop

And I have read a hell of a lot

Never read that poem

And don’t want to read it again

If people don’t know what they’re doing

They should give it up

We have coloring books

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Knock it off @Daze. If you dislike someone else’s creative writing, just don’t read it.

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50th grants every year for writers

Who are they going to

Blacks Arabs native Americans Asians

Try being a white woman writing in America today

50 thousand

151515

All the award money going to inner city intellectuals

Think they can ever find DeWitt Iowa on the map?

@everhopeful’s a European and not competing for grants, though. This is just a fun pastime for him. I wish you didn’t take it so personally.

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Not. I’m responding to the other poem.

Listen.

Paid my dues

Did the work

No return

Even Whitman gave up

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Poetry doesn’t pay well, you’re right. I was a poet, too. I had some minor success. I also gave up.

My co-person has an MFA in creative writing, one of the most gifted writers I’ve ever met. It’s copywriting and advertising that pay our bills, though, not her art.

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I’ve wasted 27 years of my life @Rhubot

Sorry for gloom and doom

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You’re also one of the most gifted writers I’ve ever met. I’m sorry it didn’t pan out for you.

I miss your blog, you know. I understand why you shut it down. I’m just putting that out there.

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That made me laugh a lot :slight_smile:

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Well, the other poem was by Andrew Barton “Banjo” Paterson who died in 1941 so he’s not getting any grants these days either.

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My kids: mom all your cry out in writing

If you just would have cried us some money

I wish art paid the bills. I would be out making movies still.

The most I ever made was 23K

That was working two jobs

Phil says I’m just a big mooch now

Phil doesn’t sound very supportive. Does he have a job himself? :unamused: