From: utzoo!decvax!duke!mike@uniq.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.poems
Title: Re: Untitled (Is it poetry?)
Article-I.D.: uniq.130
Posted: Mon May  2 20:36:26 1983
Received: Wed May 18 19:11:46 1983
References: ihlts.131

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Date:Mon, 2-May-83 20:36:26 EDT


Well, gee, this "thing" sure flows like poety; at least no worse than
excellent prose. Has anyone out there tried to read Joyce's "Finneagin's
Wake"?  Believe me, this sample here is much, MUCH more coherent, but
the same elements are in it.  Umm, 'handfull of fingers', I'd use a
'handfill' but what the heck.  I really, rally, ehnjoin the grate yoose
of vild imagery and had come up with similar 'things' (again), in my
more poemey-creative daze.  In my mind a "poem" has a point to make,
it has to succeed in making that point, and if it does it in a unique
way, then all the better.  If it's to let off steam for the author,
then perhaps it's a more private-type "poem"; if it trys to offer a
different view of the world, OK.  Poets/musicians/artists are plugged
into the world a little tighter than the standard populus (eh?), and
so, I feel, they *really* respond to weirdness/changes/dangers better
(and quicker) than most.  I said 'screw the world' a long time ago,
in order to keep what self-esteem I might have had at the time, and so,
now, I just can't write anymore - it's like 'who cares', 'so what'...
This 'poem' that I'm *supposed* to be discussing is OK, a yes vote from
me... not a great piece of craziness, but typical of 'good' bizarre writings
that I have seen.  I admit that a bit more continuity would have helped
(I *love* variations on a theme!), but a few more re-readings will probably
bring that out.  Any votes for net.joyce ?!?!?!?
	Take care -
				Mike Hall
				...we13!uniq!mike