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Why people don’t read modern poetry

  • 19 August 2019

 

Selected poems

 

Eyeroll emoji(Why people don't read modern poetry)

Maybe because

                      line drops and see herethese ticsof gratuitous style insert some random

Latinate bon mots so the uncouths            will stumble and then continue            kickkkking

            when they are down and fogged upWith a [   ] pair of [   ] because it's [   ] [ ]

          What about compoundnounsthatrunlike thisSomething here about the glory of native bush even tho      you have never been beyond zone 3 on PT

Add doleful '....' Beckettian misery here   (Phew, your 20th century Lit Minor was not a waste!)

So winning so woke you never even zzz

              Rhymes r for babies, you gotta put your ass - on - ance

Continue to fill up the page just

        Break                 it                                   up

        DISRUPTING THE DOMINANT NARRATIVE IS DOPE

                                               More is                      More   is         More

             Now work in a simile like a metaphor                                 boa constricting                                                   a riddle

               @&%%# looks good doesn't it?

— Thuy On

 

 

 

Spelling B minus

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