poemranker ::Replying

ReplyTo a comment on The Stone Seeker and the Stacking by darkshark.

SupremeDreamer21 Jan 2005

Cigarettes. Might want to correct that spelling...

Now, what exactly was your intention with this... "poem"? No doubt some literary mag would stick it on the first page, but ask yourself, as in the position of the reader, these serious questions:


What the fuck is this poem saying? If anything?

Does it sound like some asswipe is trying to sound amazingly profound?

Does the poem seem written by some 19th century zombie-relic who has an irritating, condescending love of his own voice and ability to lay heavy with the poetical gilding?

Has this poem offered a fucking thing for me, the reader, to make it worth reading?

Do I feel cheated and worthless for wasting my time reading it?


Now, really consider it. Or you can just explain yourself or tell me to fuck off, it's all fun in the end as I see it.