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By Larry Ziman | June 23, 2010
Poetry is the craft of using pointed words to make a fatuously petty point, a preeningly pithy point or some other pointy point pointedly in between.
Flimflam chitchat, disposable prefabricated factory poetry, masquerades as experi-mental avant-garde (are)t, a deadbeat charade of the soap-opera poetry follies camouflaging the belly-up effluvia of trivolous frivia.
Poetry is the craft of writing that creates the work of art called poem.
The ruse of discourse posing as poetry ploys the imagination.
Poets are trope troopers traipsing across a battlefield of conflicting emotions.
Ants climbing trees defines the s-ants of poetry.
Poetry, as other art, critiques civilization and culture privately.
Poems p(home) m(eye)nd.
Bukowski perfected bars poetica.
Inscrutable miasma art brainfogs the mind.
Artists book passage to the unpredictable imagination.
Poets dabble playfully in the impossibilities of language.
Bacchus boycotts the party bar of con-tempor-airy poetry.
A noet is a semi-amateur poet starving in a garret practicing the loneliest art of writing semi-amateur poetry called noetry.
Poetry’s post-mortem: Poetry may be dead, but great poems live on forever.
Your mind of minds knows in your heart of hearts that the poetry-powers-that-be-behind-closed-doors, the illiterary forces of darkness, are mad men and mad women living in a madhouse of their own design called the established poetreek ordure.
Why do poets think they’re prophets writing scriptures for posterity when posterity couldn’t care less?
The Diffy Cult of Poetry exclaims that the reader’s path to comprehension of a poem should be as difficult as the poet’s process of creating the poem so that the reader would experience that unexpectedly sudden epiphany exactly as the poet experienced it.
The avant-garde backwater poet-rebels are unruly artists in revolt undermining and overthrowing the literary status quo of the politically-correct post-modern poeseurs of the mainstream poetry establishment.
Art contemplates not only the human condition and the meaning of life but also the inhuman condition and the meaning of death.
Indecipherability is the highest achievement of the lowest-common-denominator poetry.
A backward poet writes inverse.
Poets act like fringelings parading on life’s periphery.
Great poetry is, of course, spectacular oracular vernacular.
Humerica will always be home to experimentally experimental experimenters experimenting experimentally.
Almost everyone writes poetry but scarcely anyone can write a poem (Clive James).
Starving poets write oweds.
Poetry is sound holier than silence.
Poems are heart bombs exploding in the mind.
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