Praise and Criticism for Prose Yet Again
Seems as though people are afraid of abstract poetry here in Prose, as if they think they'll fall into the shadowy abyss...
As for that and your internalized fears, all I have to say to you is...it's too late!!!!...
We're all swimming around in the abyss whether we like it or not....
I have to thank Prose for many things...It's praise and openmindedness, though infrequent at times has brought many magical results...The human eye is a many splendored thing because everyone experiences things in a fantastically unique way...Thank God or else we'd all be in a sci-fi movie where the powers that be were force-feeding us a unified way of thinking, and to deviate from this path would lead to death...As it is in America this is actually going on but at a much less accelerated rate as to barely notice unless if you're hyper sensitive(so, chances are, if you're on here and a poet, you have sensed it!!).
Poets have historically been called upon to fight the ever present bulldozer of conformity, and this is a constant and pervasive fight; although to many it is an unconscious fight!...
It's a fight nonetheless, and it exists like that woman I acknowledged yesterday at that car repair store by the gas station near my house(I don't like to name names) that I never knew existed until I deigned to acknowledge it's existence. Existence is silly that way.
What am I saying??? I guess that we should fight for our right to be better listeners, because it's hard to write a cutting edge poem, much less write a poem at all. Give a hoot, and try a bit of everything out; otherwise what's the point? Might as well be sanctioned to only eat bologna every single day for the rest of your life, That is all.