There's a lot of good poetry out there, but I suspect that enjoying poetry is deeply unfashionable. If I start a post with poetry, almost no one will read it, not even to get to the bits after the poetry. It is a cruel and uncaring world we live in.
Perhaps more than unfashionable it's divisive? It's pretty unlikely that someone is going to like a specific poem that someone else suggests. (At least based on my reaction to most poems other people seem to talk about.) And then we've also generally been polluted by thinking that poetry is what we were force-fed in the three day unit on poetry that we had in high school, so as adults there is I think a fair amount of unlearning to do before it starts to make any sense whatsoever as something to be appreciated.
I am one of those people with no close friends. There are people who are closer than others, and a huge bevy of acquaintances, but I've been able to say I have a "best" friend for maybe 8% of my life. I don't know what to do about it; my therapist and I are discovering it's mostly to do with my mother, and overly dramatic friends in my young life.
(I am just now catching up on the fact that you've been posting here, as I've wanted to for a good year and change and failed to do because Reasons.)
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There's a lot of good poetry out there, but I suspect that enjoying poetry is deeply unfashionable. If I start a post with poetry, almost no one will read it, not even to get to the bits after the poetry. It is a cruel and uncaring world we live in.
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(I am just now catching up on the fact that you've been posting here, as I've wanted to for a good year and change and failed to do because Reasons.)
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