This is my problem, and it comes up over and over in workshops-- someone will say,
"Oh, gee, this is really nice, and it's very pretty, but why do I have to care?"
I am going to harpoon the damn so-what test.
Maybe next time, I will write a sweeping epic on the nature of
love, or death, or living, or cryonics,
and tie it to some sort of farmstand, or museum, or fishing metaphor
and they'll gobble it up.
But who REALLY wants to do that?
So what? SO WHAT?
Why do I care, then?
It's not useless!
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We were pretty honest in there, and maintained what I remember as a sense of humor. But who has time for comedy in poetry?
I took a class with Martin Espada and someone asked, "Why did you even bother bringing this in at all?"
It was a poem about ancestry. Sorry I wasn't writing about Vladimir Putin. Peter Gizzi said they could shove it.
Did you work with Peter at all? He was funny shit.
Hope you and Greg are well!