i have to keep myself entertained somehow

[beingfacetious]

Okay, flist, I need your help. As you'll recall from my last post, I have my second poetry class this semester, and I'm not excited about it. Since then I've actually read the poems we have to workshop for this week, and I'm like 87% they're bad but since they're poems there's not really any way to tell. So I decided that I was just going to have

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[papilio_luna]

I said "Ten's ~feelings~" because I think that has the highest opportunity for a large private lulz-to-public adulation ratio.

[_thirty2flavors]

I agree.

Also there is probably the most material.

[2nd2ndalto]

Thirded. I believe we would all find this endlessly entertaining. (I love you, Ten. Feelings and all.) And I realize four is hardly a representative sample, but I think the long red line after "Ten's ~feelings~" is hilarious.

[beingfacetious]

It's eight now; even more hilarious. xD

[goldy_dollar]

TEN'S FEELINGS ALWAYS

because he is just so deep

[beingfacetious]

IT'S SO TRUE. Also then people could think I'm slowly becoming depressed. Like they could start super happy and get sadder and sadder and less and less coherent...

[_thirty2flavors]

Plz write a poem called "Victorious" and/or "Victory"

[beingfacetious]

DONE AND DONE.

[hailtherain]

Omg Ten's ~feelings~ is just too good to pass up.

[beingfacetious]

It's just that he has SO MANY.

[iluvmusicals]

Oh man, these are all so good, but I went with your flist because you are friends with really entertaining people. Plus, I feel like Ten's feelings and Scrubs characters just make it too easy. :P

(You will post these, whatever you decide, right?)

[beingfacetious]

This is very true! It would have been really interactive because I would have had to like ask you guys what you would want in a poem about yourselves, and then somehow work in your usernames...

But, while Ten's feelings is going to probably be pretty easy, it will also be probably really freaking hilarious. So it's looking like that one. :-p

I promise to post them!

[bytheshoreline]

Being able to write veiled fanfiction for school is a glorious privilege. I have taken advantage of it on more than one occasion. Given my weird educational history, however, and the fact that I left school so often, I never got most of my work back. So these glories are lost forever to the DPS system. Alas.

You like some poetry, though, right? Who do you like?

[beingfacetious]

That is so sad. I actually emailed some teachers over Christmas to ask if I could get some final stories/papers back with comments on. I'm that student...and...proud?.......

I do like some! I adore e e cummings, because he writes about love the way love feels. And last spring in my YA lit class we had to do a 20-poem anthology for young adults and I hunted down love poems that didn't suck, and found some real beauties. "Incident" by Norman MacCaig, "Everywhere" by Mark Doty, "Having a Coke With You" by Frank O'Hara (READ THAT ONE AT LEAST OMG), and "The Masks of Love" by Aldan Nowlan, which goes like this:
I come in from a walk
With you
And they ask me
If it is raining.

I didn’t notice
But I’ll have to give them
The right answer
Or they’ll think I’m crazy.

[beingfacetious]

Actually here is the document I compiled them in, because in reading back through it I basically just want to copy and paste them all. Sooooo gooood.

https://www.yousendit.com/download/bFlHb3BFdGpubVUwTVE9PQ

My main problem, I guess, is with student poets. This batch in particular is just...exceptionally awful.
Like my dog with a piece of steak,
you abducted my heart off the dining room table,
running around the house, devouring it as you went
leaving my impoverished.

not kidding.

[bytheshoreline]

Ooh, I will definitely take a look at those! I am a fan of poetry. Like, I know there is some awfulness out there, but I love the good stuff.

WHAT. IS. THIS. EVEN.