Our ideas and aspirations for poetry rarely coincide with poetry as it actually exists. When they do, that's a moment worth remarking on. Poetry as it actually exists, in all its mediocrity, only exists because of the hope or possibility that it will coincide sometimes with what we want it to be. It is not valuable in and of itself.
Our ideas
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for poetry
are like coin sides--
they're
a fifty-fifty
proposition.
Poetry,
I wanna say,
has its
flip side.
i am nodding my head. i like that you can acknowledge this as factual, without seeming grumpy or panicked about it.
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