>> I've become interested lately, as apart from being excruciatingly aware,
>>> of
>>> the laziness of poetry. Poetry, as an art, along with elements of visual
>>> arts, has become a last refuge of the bone-idle, at least, if you write a
>>> novel, or a play, you have to put your back into it, it takes work,
>>> poetry,
David B. I can't tell you what you are missing. But I think you are dead on
right! I don't take it as a problem however. I have sleep issues. Before
going to bed at night, I have been able to overcome them by writing poems.
Special kinds. I have eliminated any pretext to meter of any sort. I just
let the words slop out. Within a half hour my head is already falling asleep
over the sloppy new text on my monitor. My nurses and doctors are very
impressed. Indeed my sleep issues have disappeared!
In everyone's excitement over this post-metric solution - useful apparently
for a variety of sleep disorder syndromes - my doctors and nurses have taken
to sending my poems to both professional and literary journals. It's been an
amazing success for all. Editors frequently respond how well my poems have
created new markets and much larger readerships that is now combined with
genuine reader loyalty. People are regularly found sleeping over their
magazines, their heads tucked between the pages! My collected poems are
about to arrive.
I am told both Europe and the Americas - and possibly Asian and African
markets - are opening up. People are literally asleep with excitement. My
agent tells me the American franchise of Walt Whitman Clubs - known for
their celebration of the power of laziness while versifying - has already
booked me for a cross country tour.
Ain't that something? All my fellow friends and poets now testify, they have
never seen me so stress free!
So long, David, as much as I value your opinion, I am about to snooze.
Stephen V
Blog: http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
Currently featuring a couch!
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