Responses to the Bad-poetry-written-when-I-thought-it-was-good thread:
1. The terminological response: "Please define your terms."
2. The hypothetical response: "If good poetry can become bad poetry,
how can we be sure that it really *is* bad poetry; and, if good
poetry
can become bad poetry, is it not possible that bad poetry may
become
good poetry?"
3. The categorical response: "Where is the line between good poetry
and bad?"
4. The cryptic response: "Good bad poetry is not all that far from
bad good
poetry *if* you know where to look."
5. The perfunctory response: "The last poem I wrote is my worst one; the
best one is the one I'm just now beginning to write."
6. The scatological response: "You can put this thread where the sun
don't
shine."
7. The Clintonesque response: "Depends what you mean by 'it.'"
8. The "presidential" response: "Writers of bad poetry are evil-
doers, and
we're going to hunt them down and smoke them out of their caves,
unless,
of course, they is [sic] very good at slithering away."
Hal
"If you have liver disease, tell
your doctor."
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