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If I open this site and see one more tragically hip goth girl, or wannabe Eric Draven, especially those with blood featured prominantly in the piece; if I see one more badly done Anime figure with "Precious Moments" eyes and Pokemon mouth; if I see one more disparaging remark meant to wound rather than support, I think I'll go runing into the street screaming. What the fuck ever happened to innovation and orginality? Why the desperate cookie cutter menality that excludes all efforts which do not fall within a certain "outcast mainstream's" approval? I see so many trying to paint themselves as the misunderstood artist, the loner, the disaffected -=eyeroll=- Here's a thought: perhaps individuation should start with daring to bring something forth that isn't just another version of what has already been done to death.

What brought this rant on? I just read a lovely poem listed in Favorites of the Day. As I scrolled down through the Comments, some asshat posted a "War and Peace" length comment that basically boiled down to: "Waaaaaaa no one ever clicks on *my* poetry. Waaaaaaa *I'm* so good and no one notices. Waaaaaa *my* stuff is sooo much better (AND provided links...can you say pageview whore?) as examples of how poetry should be written. Well, I read those links, much to my chagrin, and it *did* remind me of a famous author: Dr. Suess...say it with me..."One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish..." I have a late breaking world news flash: rhyme and meter alone do not make it poetry. The Free Verse piece linked was equally unimpressive: forced and stilted, filled with mind numbing alliteration and the obligatory dripping blood, yet I forced myself to finish it. Yes, I know what I'm typing is not supportive either; however, this person offered his/her work up as a model of what is good and worthy, as an example of how poetry should be written. I'm an English teacher; I can say this person is, at best, delusional. The piece s/he critiqued was far superior, and best of all innovative and original. Okay, I'm done now. Had to get that off my chest, and better here than in a Reply to that negative, whiny, condescending Comment.--AG
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phoenixdaisy's avatar
It's times like this that I almost wish you could fav peoples journals. I'm going to link this one, BlueBlack's rant (which led me here), and the first rant all in my journal. I appriciate people willing to speak their minds.