I know that poetry is supposed to be cool or something, and maybe it is somehow sacrilegious for a writer to say so, but I hate poetry.
Poetry is the little brother with a speech impediment to proper stories, which have beginnings, middle and ends! A poem is a song without music. It is a the hiding place of those who love purple pros, and don't know how to use punctuation for best effect.
Perhaps I exaggerate my dislike of poems. I have a few that I do actually really like (my great uncle Len wrote beautiful poems, and a hilarious one about losing his dentures down the the long drop)... but I am not going to buy a book of poems. I am not going to read a blog dedicated to poems. And I can't understand their appeal to anyone outside of the people who write them.
Perhaps it is not that I "hate" poems, so much as I just heave no patience for them.
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