{"id":56,"date":"2012-01-17T00:24:34","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T05:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=56"},"modified":"2017-11-22T13:59:03","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T18:59:03","slug":"poem-my-poetry-is-shit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/17\/poem-my-poetry-is-shit\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: My Poetry is Shit"},"content":{"rendered":"

My Poetry is Shit<\/span><\/h1>\n

by Top Pun<\/span><\/p>\n

My poetry is shit
\nWould I say ingest?
\nAnd I
\nIn awe seriousness
\nSay poetry is the write thing to do
\nBut once stripped of this experience
\nEvery iota digestible digested
\nIt’s daily nutrition had
\nThen
\nLittle remains
\nBut excrement
\nPardon me if you have stepped into it
\nThen again, defecation is immensely underrated
\nFertilizer makes great beginnings
\nAnd sometimes we just need some reading material
\nWhere we find our self
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Ah yes, to meld the epic themes of poetry and shit.\u00a0 Once again, to revisit the high and mighty themes of poetry and the lowly and the mundane.\u00a0 Everyone poops.\u00a0 Not everyone gets poetry, if they even happen to read poetry.\u00a0 Even fewer are blessed with the inclination to write poetry.\u00a0 As many writers and perhaps most poets know, the writing process can often be more fruitful and beneficial to the writer than the poor reader.\u00a0 Perhaps this is due to poor writing.\u00a0 Perhaps this is due to poor reading.\u00a0 I have to confess that there is a certain selfishness in writing poetry.\u00a0 Writing poetry can be a solitary and private experience.\u00a0 And as with many privy experiences, it may be best experienced by oneself.\u00a0 If a poet is lucky, and maybe even talented, then what is left after the writing experience may be of great nutritive value to the reader.\u00a0 Unfortunately, this is not always the case.\u00a0 In such cases, that which remains may be of little value, even offensive, perhaps to even more than one sensibility.\u00a0 When it comes down to it, I find much of life humorous.\u00a0 And when I find life not humorous, I often search for humor, as an alternative to weeping.\u00a0 I must confess that I like to have a robust proportion of weeping to be weeping of joy than be weeping of sorrow.\u00a0 Fortunately, most of the raw material of life, surreal as it may be, is fertile material for comedic observations.\u00a0 When others get it, all the better.\u00a0 When others don’t get it, well, it happens!\u00a0 Most of my poetry and other writings and that being somewhat comedic due to my propensity for humor and my inescapable perception of puns and the reality around me.\u00a0 Like my son told me recently, when describing me to other people, rather than saying one thing twice, I say two things once.\u00a0 Perhaps paradoxically, this may result in brevity but doesn’t make the reading of such short works any less brief.\u00a0 And when reading my poetry many people want briefs.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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