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Why do you think she is terrible? Isn't she considered one of the best American poets ever? Most of her good stuff she wrote in two years, which was like over 300 poems. They're pretty haunting considering they were published after she died when it was undisclosed whether she really wanted them published. Also the fact that she was a hermit and her material never deviates to her historical context (American Civil War) makes her work timeless. She separates the heaviness from darkness, that's my thoughts anyway.

Have to read some Poe and Baudelaire. I'm familiar with Poe but I don't know a thing on Baudelaire except he was one of those
'decadent' fellows like the main characters in Picture of Dorian Gray.
 
The only times it ever had a decent chance were when Gilliam offered to do it and Aronofsky was working on it. Gilliam said it couldn't be done which is basically proof that it shouldn't, and Aronofsky just dropped it like everyone else.
 
I like to post here because it's a good line that I can walk in order to improve slight errors in my verse.

Ergh.

Nonetheless, critiquing isn't hard at all.
 
Is this site dyin' or what?

Oh well. Here's a cool poem I read today called Frenzy by Anne Sexton.

I am not lazy.
I am on the amphetamine of the soul.
I am, each day,
typing out the God
my typewriter believes in.
Very quick. Very intense,
like a wolf at a live heart.
Not lazy.
When a lazy man, they say,
looks toward heaven,
the angels close the windows.

Oh angels,
keep the windows open
so that I may reach in
and steal each object,
objects that tell me the sea is not dying,
objects that tell me the dirt has a life-wish,
that the Christ who walked for me,
walked on true ground
and that this frenzy,
like bees stinging the heart all morning,
will keep the angels
with their windows open,
wide as an English bathtub.
 
Is it just me or have you all been posting death/funeral songs recently just as so many people are coming in with these frankly nauseating Valentine verses?
 
it's still on his computer we havent quite finished it yet, were gonna do it like recess and lunch on monday maybe get my buddy in and do a rhyming duo thing with him. make our own hip hop crew :p
when i get a copy ill remember to post it
 
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