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authorCase Duckworth2015-03-01 18:07:48 -0700
committerCase Duckworth2015-03-01 18:07:48 -0700
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@@ -19,11 +19,11 @@ What is poetry?
19Inasmuch as life is, so is poetry. 19Inasmuch as life is, so is poetry.
20Here is the problem: life is very big and complex. 20Here is the problem: life is very big and complex.
21Human beings are neither. 21Human beings are neither.
22We are small, simple beings that don’t want to know all of the myriad interactions happening all around us, within us, as a part of us, all the hours of every day. 22We are small, simple beings that don't want to know all of the myriad interactions happening all around us, within us, as a part of us, all the hours of every day.
23We much prefer knowing only that which is just in front of our faces, staring us back with a look of utter contempt. 23We much prefer knowing only that which is just in front of our faces, staring us back with a look of utter contempt.
24This is why many people are depressed. 24This is why many people are depressed.
25 25
26Poetry is an attempt made by some to open up our field of view, to maybe check on something else that isn’t staring us in the face so contemptibly. 26Poetry is an attempt made by some to open up our field of view, to maybe check on something else that isn't staring us in the face so contemptibly.
27Maybe something else is smiling at us, we think. 27Maybe something else is smiling at us, we think.
28So we write poetry to force ourselves to look away from the [mirror][] of our existence to see something else. 28So we write poetry to force ourselves to look away from the [mirror][] of our existence to see something else.
29 29
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ What this means is: a poem should be self-extracting.
39It should be a rare vanilla in the bottle, waiting only for someone to open it and sniff it and suddenly there they are, in the orchid that vanilla came from, in the tropical land where it grew next to its brothers and sister vanilla plants. 39It should be a rare vanilla in the bottle, waiting only for someone to open it and sniff it and suddenly there they are, in the orchid that vanilla came from, in the tropical land where it grew next to its brothers and sister vanilla plants.
40They feel the pain of having their children taken from them. 40They feel the pain of having their children taken from them.
41A good poem leaves a feeling of loss and of intense beauty. 41A good poem leaves a feeling of loss and of intense beauty.
42The reader does nothing to achieve thisthey are merely the receptacle of the feeling that the poem forces onto them. 42The reader does nothing to achieve this---they are merely the receptacle of the feeling that the poem forces onto them.
43In a way, poetry is a crime. 43In a way, poetry is a crime.
44But it is the most beautiful crime on this crime-ridden earth. 44But it is the most beautiful crime on this crime-ridden earth.
45 45