To all those member of the writing community...
if you have never had any training in poetry, please do not tell me what i am doing wrong. If you don't know what slant ryhme, dissonance, or iambs are than don't comment. Don't tell me to clean it up, ur wasting ur f****n breath. : ) poetry is an art, and any artist knows it takes deliberate technique and years of learning to utilize different skills and tools to become established enouhg to critique the work of others. if you have somehting of substance to say, knock urself out. if your just gonna say "nice write" or "awsome" or "it was alittle long" just so ur stupid ranking number goes up, than f**k off. Oh, and if you've never read Dickinson, Whitman, Bukowski, yeats, cummings, Dylan thomas, angelou, langston Hughes, william carlos williams, pinero, nikole blackman, and frost, or you dont know who said "out of the cradle endlessly rocking" just leave now. and im not being a snot. anyone who knows jack about poetry knows all these poeple. i am a student, a protige, and am not fully schooled as of yet. but tell me, if you know l;ess than i do, wut pretell could you possibly offer me as a writer?
"Some people never go crazy... wut truely horrible lives they must live..." --bukowski
"Life is a B movie, it's stupid and its strange, its a directionless story and the dialuge is lame, but in the he said she said sometimes theres some poetry, if u turn ur back long enough an let it happen naturally...." --ani F#cking Difranco
i am never going to be perfect, and i dont ever want anyone to think that i am again... i want to be loved for my imperfections... blood is thicker than water... love can't die, if it did it was never real... people only reveal what they want you to know, the rest takes years to figure out... i am a walking contradiction...i drive a broken down s**t box named Belle and i love her... i am slightly less than sane... i have more fun doing everyday things than most people do... i like painting my nails... i dont brush my hair enough... almost everything i own has paint splattered on it... i am reckless with my heart... i met ugly at too young an age, but dont regret a second of it becasue it has made me what i am today... i write because i have to... i am in love with words... i never give up, even if you think i have... Will you take me as i am, strung out on another man?... dont cross me, it may be twenty years, but youll get yours... i make random phone calls... i cry everytime i hear the song "Vincent (starry starry night)" and "tears in heaven"... i am kinda a bookworm... sex isnt a sweaty way to get off, its an expression of love, and ill never let it be less... i can take care of myself, but id rather be taking care of you... i see the best in people, especially the ones who don't deserve it... i don't judge people, i don't go by hearsay, i form my own opinions, and i revise them daily... i come off as a b***h sometimes if you don;t know me, but its only a defense mechanism... im not a dumb blonde and i can probably kick ur a*s in tetris... i cry every year on my birthday, and so do my three sisters... Holdiays are anticlimactic now that i am not four years old anymore... i wish i were four years old... i don't respect liars... if you lie to me ill catch you, and never trust a god damn word you say again... only, thats a lie... i dont know where i am, where im going, or what i want, but i know who i am better than most people know themselves, and im okay whith who that person is... when im scared i run, or push you away... i wish someone would see through me... i have just as many guy friends as girl friends, gay friends as straight friends, and i dont see the barriers most of society see... i have done too many hallucinogenic drugs and my mind is too open to too many possibilities... i draw faces... i am a mess... i only sleep when i get a bed time story, and only from him... i am genuinly sorry to the people who ive hurt, even if they deserved it at the time... i can't do grey, it makes me uncomfrotable, its gotta be black or white...i am not an impartial person, i love or hate... im white, but i can dance... i like meeting people and talking about the world... i reveal too much of myself to be comfortable... i talk in my sleep... i dont mind getting dirty... i hate disrespectful guys... i love tolstoy, hunter thompson, hurston, pinero, shakespeare, ginsberg, wally lamb, ani, dylan, lennon, Janice and every other great mind that has made me crack up a little more with each word... if your not busy bein born ur busy dying... i am addicted to cadbury cream eggs... i am constantly reminded that hopeless romantics have no place in this world... i dont like my laguage watered down and i dont like my edges rounded off... i paint disturbing pictures... i curse like a f*ckin truck driver, but never around little kids... i am an escape artist, but im working on it... i desperately want to lay in someones arsm and be told that everythings okay, but refuse to becasue it's a god damn lie... i dont like promises becasue people tend to break them... i only promise something if i mean it, and even if it means death i keep my word... i regret only one night of my life, and it was not a deciscion i made, nor a person i have loved... i dont regret love... i make a lot of very strange faces... i love little kids and babies but dont want my own yet... i like wearing my cowboy boots... i sing pretty well sometimes, but never when other people are around... i am vulnerable and scared, but i never let on... i love aqua teen hunger force... i am a dork... i still play on playgrounds, and still fit... i can srwal into small places... i sleep curled up into a little ball... i cant throw things out, take pictures down, or get rid of ticket stubs (im a packrat)... i remember the most bizarre things... i beleive people even if somewhere in time, i know they are lying to me... making sense and being rational are over rated... i follow my heart, am not afraid to crash and burn, and take unexplainable risks... i need to be single for a while right now... freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose... dont be afraid to ask me things... im human... i have flaws... i read people so well is scary... i live my life by the moon... i tend to shy away from guys that take an interest in me, even if i like them... i am worth the fight... i am not serious most of the time... the world is fucked up, and im living proof, but i make the most of it and am still an optimist. .. ..
go to my website to hear me perform my spoken word stuff if u like wut u read here... it linked up above, myspace
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