wolf stands for wolf i'd like to fuck

so these days, every time I'm confronted with poetry I reach for my revolver

blah blah blah Tumblr blah,

anyway I think if today's young hack poets want to write better poems, they should have a friend read their own poems aloud to them. the friend will inevitably stress the wrong words, or otherwise, assign no particular stress or emotion to any parts of the poem where they have no idea wtf the poet was thinking, which is probably close to the whole thing. this experience should reveal to the poet where some hand-holding may be necessary to ensure that an unknown reader can interpret the poem in such a way as to receive any of its intended impact

if you want to write vague ass poems that only you know how to interpret correctly, you can do those at your poetry reading, or maybe put out a spoken word recording no one will buy. but don't stick it in a print magazine, and expect me to chew on it until I make heads or tails of it when I am in the crib watchin the game havin a bud. it's on the same page as a short story that's perfectly legible even if it's bad

welcome to art i'm glad your first day was special

it's almost december. anybody wanna come mindflaying with me?

I test all my poetry in speakonia with all punctuation replaced with exclamation points

Quote from: VCRClock on November 30, 2025, 01:37:31 AMso these days, every time I'm confronted with poetry I reach for my revolver

blah blah blah Tumblr blah,

anyway I think if today's young hack poets want to write better poems, they should have a friend read their own poems aloud to them. the friend will inevitably stress the wrong words, or otherwise, assign no particular stress or emotion to any parts of the poem where they have no idea wtf the poet was thinking, which is probably close to the whole thing. this experience should reveal to the poet where some hand-holding may be necessary to ensure that an unknown reader can interpret the poem in such a way as to receive any of its intended impact

if you hadn't already compared my duck jokes to literature I'd think you were calling me out

Quote from: FLOUNDERMAN_CLOCK on November 30, 2025, 02:51:02 PMI test all my poetry in speakonia with all punctuation replaced with exclamation points

lol

I made that post coming off of reading a couple of local independent publications open to poetry/fiction/nonfiction/anything where the contributors seem pretty 20something

I am biased from years of accepting speakonia as normal, but I genuinely think that writing poety specifically to be performed by speakonia, knowing how it will enunciate 'oOoOo' or that it will pronounce 'ahahahaha' with the same stress pattern as 'embarcadero' or 'atascocita', is interesting, valid, and deserves a spot in AT LEAST a rinky-dink circle jerk literary journal. replacing all the punctuation with exclamation points is unironically flexing more dynamic range than a lot of this floaty hack poetry is. john madden!



slurpeeclock if you were not alluding to particular authors or works of literature I have been made a buffoon 2x: the first time for pretending to almost recognize some literary style, the second for not even understanding the level at which you were operating. I feel like the guy who goes into the library looking for a book/author combo ChatGPT made up. I have seen worse prose from people earnestly trying to do something more serious than duck jokes

we've finally evolved past dick jokes and it's all thanks to slurpee

i use bozo as a insult but he's the reason we have warnings on cigarette packets so maybe i should go back to sarcastically saying einstein

hang on..

communion...

transubstantiation...


"[...] the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve [...]"


IT'S A COOKBOOK

the Austin Film Society Cinema is screening the A Chinese Ghost Story trilogy this month, for those who were not wise enough to take phantomcatclock's advice three years ago

i signed an executive order that says i've seen them

Quote from: VCRClock on November 30, 2025, 08:07:58 PMslurpeeclock if you were not alluding to particular authors or works of literature I have been made a buffoon 2x: the first time for pretending to almost recognize some literary style, the second for not even understanding the level at which you were operating. I feel like the guy who goes into the library looking for a book/author combo ChatGPT made up. I have seen worse prose from people earnestly trying to do something more serious than duck jokes

you weren't wrong that you were probably recognizing some things, or the shape of them at least, but I was being more of a bob dylan and stealing bits and pieces of things I think are powerful and fitting them in while I was mostly riffing on the original joke and then riffing on my own riff and then following the weird emotional arc that was emerging from that while trying to put some words into the best order (looking at the time stamps it was written over the course of nearly an hour and a half lol)

I could walk through the thought process if anyone's interested, it's a pretty "me" mix of thoughtful/literary and farcically stupid

anyway I came here to post that, I just noticed Yeat's "The Second Coming" (you know the one- "the best lack all conviction", "slouching towards bethlehem" etc.) has like weird super half-assed why-did-he-even-bother half-rhymes at the ends of the first four lines

QuoteTurning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

and then he just doesn't even come close for the entire rest of the poem, and I'm trying to describe how brilliant it is and failing.
the way it's sort of lyrical but not really makes it feel like it's like floating in a void, your ear feels like it's expecting a rhyme and not getting it, just pockets of assonance and consonance, and it's perfect for the uneasy feeling he was building- those post-ww1 modernist feelings of structural collapse, and the anxious feeling of not knowing what will come next, soaked in apocalyptic imagery... look I'm just gonna say it, it's better than The Hollow Men.
"hey I like The Hollow Men" shut up, no you don't. read it again sometime. "eyes I dare not meet in dreams" is a banger but bro wrote "this is the cactus land" 💀💀💀 frfr dead ass, no cap, for thine is the, bet, 6 7 *dabs*.
then he does "here we go round the mulberry bush" in its entirety like lil wayne rapping the whole alphabet in the middle of a song, except he replaces "mulberry bush" with "the prickly pear." and what's a prickly pear? for thine is that's right, it's another fucking cactus. shut the fuck up about cactuses, t.s. eliot.

Quote from: Slurpee on December 04, 2025, 05:18:46 AMlil wayne rapping the whole alphabet in the middle of a song,

https://youtu.be/BBa-TB6-gQE?t=151