What’s wrong with poetry?

[rowens]

I need somebody like newsclippings with her qualifications and professional options to take me in, before I get kicked out of my sister's house.

I couldn't even get a job in this town teaching illiterate people to read, and that was volunteer work.

And I think Leanne, as always, misread my recommendations. I don't want to exterminate the intellectuals, I just want them to stop working so much, and stop thinking about commas so much.

There are lots of poems, and the poems I like the most are the ones that are trying to fill some sense of emptiness. Trying to deal with something that's gone, or something that was never here, or something that's not right, or doesn't allow you to live like you feel you could be or should be. I think there is something wrong with poetry, because if there wasn't, we'd all be able to be quiet, and not even feel any need to worry over it. I think there's something wrong with the world. And the biggest fault I see with the world is that I like it exactly as it is.