If a poem is only average unless it has grammatical anomalies, then - let me tell you - it's average anyway. In fact, it's even more average for being just like every other kid who read 'i sing of olaf glad and big' in high school and thinks that's the future. I'm all for people thinking they're the future, provided they really are the future, and not just some amateur-looking hack. Now what I'm trying to say is that you have stuff that will make you not look like an amateur-looking hack, but you're throwing it away to save your precious anomalies. You say they're "just waiting to become kitschy and, dare I say, even cool if only I have the personal fortitude." I'm sorry to say, it's not only you with the personal fortitude. Look here (
http://www.poemranker.com/poem-details.
jsp?id=80811), here (
http://www.poemranker.com/poem-details.
jsp?id=80726), here (
http://www.poemranker.com/poem-details.
jsp?id=80735), here (
http://www.poemranker.com/poem-details.
jsp?id=80427), here (
http://www.poemranker.com/poem-details.
jsp?id=79941), and here (
http://www.poemranker.com/poem-details.
jsp?id=80386). And that's only the 20 most recent. Terrify me? You're a dime a dozen on this site. Get some real quality and then come terrify me. See the following note for a continuatioin.