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On Monday, May 9, 2022 at 8:12:33 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> Michael Pendragon, you may have read a bit of Allen Ginsberg, Charles Bukowski and Jack Kerouac, but you obviously don't get their poetry. 

I understand it (let's face it, they aren't exactly challenging).  I just don't care for their style.

I am a wordsmith.  I appreciate well-crafted sentences, beautiful turns of phrase, ideas that elevate the "soul," and most of all *music* expressed through the spoken word.  I like rhyme, meter, alliteration, onomatopoeia, internal rhyme, etc. -- little flourishes that lift the lines above those of ordinary speech.  

Your above-listed idols lack these skills.  Ginsberg reads like a pompous college professor, Kerouac like a fortune cookie, and Bukowski like a drunken pissbum.  

You disagree?

Why don't you post that critical reading of a Bukowski poem you've been promising for the last ten years?


Michael Pendragon
"Kids will play around with other kids, having been one, I know that, but consent laws are indeed in place to keep adult predators from legally seducing children." 
-- Will Dockery, on playing with children