Delusions of grandeur. Pretend poets think they’re special. Which is ridiculous. Poetry never saved a life. It hasn’t cured cancer. I’m certain it never will considering how much liquor it drinks.
Have you read Lewis Carroll? Pure nonsense.
So this is a message to everyone who pretends to be a poet (and that is every poet living and/or dead): get a real job. You will be happier and so will your family. Poetry has never solved any problem. You know what has? Money and hotels.
If my lazy-ass son had a real job, instead of masturbating all day and calling it a poetry blog, he wouldn’t keep asking me for money. I wouldn’t keep telling him no, and I would love him.
Poetry is easy. I will show you. I literally wrote this off the top of my head three minutes ago.
The Ballad of Knowgood Carp
I know damn well
when I cast my spell
I will be okay
on the Judgment Day
because I have more money
so I can buy God's honey
and if I want to bone ya'
what I'll do is phone ya'.
Do better than that, B.S. Eliot. I defy you.
Knowgood Carp, Owner of all the Hotels on Block Island and Some in Connecticut
Pungent Sound Journal of Pulp Poetry 
Sadly, if you want to be a poet, or a writer, or an artist, or anything art, you likely will need a real job, to keep body & soul together. And that is a great sorce of inspiration, in itself. Yay, so much winning?! π
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I could never be a poet because I could not do the suffering. I cannot be a pretend poet because I cannot even pretend to be suffering.
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That sounds like living right.
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It’s all very well you stamping your foot and having a poutrage. Some poets ARE overlooked and DESERVE to be remembered. And while they may not be as LUGUBRIOUS as T.S. Eliot they are just as good!
I give you this challenge: C.Elwydd Abel Prentiss.
Read any THREE of his published poems and tell me I am wrong.
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Thanks, Josie. Please forgive my father. If he didn’t have poutrages, he would have nothing to say at all. Also, thanks for bringing Prentiss to my attention. I enjoyed the poems, and I enjoy your blog.
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So exactly how many of his poems did you read?
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I read two of them.
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Made me laugh, Lovegood Carp!
Gwen.
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Thanks, Gwen. Very glad to hear it.
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