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gmonkey42And I was not disappointed! 19 stories! Read this poem and weep for humanity! Can't you just picture Ennis sitting in his truck, writing that with a stubby pencil in a little secret notebook? And then closing the notebook, kissing it and tucking it away in a secret compartment under the seat so his wife doesn't find it? And then applying a new coat of nailpolish and whipping out his copy of "Tiger Beat" because he's somehow transformed into a twelve-year-old girl?
But seriously, this is a huge pet peeve of mine: in order to qualify as poetry, a piece of writing does not necessarily rhyme but must have some kind of rhythmic structure. Even if it's free verse poetry, the author pays attention to how the words sound. If it's a bunch of rhyming lines with no attention paid to rhythm then it's not poetry! Maybe it's rhyming prose, I don't know what to call it. Wait, yes, I do: "turdpile."
I'm big on the turd metaphors lately.
Speaking of which, the other thing a piece has to have to count as poetry is figurative language. Which the above-linked piece, I admit, has.
But seriously, this is a huge pet peeve of mine: in order to qualify as poetry, a piece of writing does not necessarily rhyme but must have some kind of rhythmic structure. Even if it's free verse poetry, the author pays attention to how the words sound. If it's a bunch of rhyming lines with no attention paid to rhythm then it's not poetry! Maybe it's rhyming prose, I don't know what to call it. Wait, yes, I do: "turdpile."
I'm big on the turd metaphors lately.
Speaking of which, the other thing a piece has to have to count as poetry is figurative language. Which the above-linked piece, I admit, has.
