A Modest Proposal (Meter Discussion)

[Leanne]

Did you just write that Leanne? If you did, you're my poetic guru. That was what I wanted to do: write high-flown twaddle. By twaddle I mean stuff that isn't personal. I feel the world has enough poems that are chiefly about the misery and importance of the person writing them.

Shem; clearly meter, feet &c are a bourgeois instrument of oppression and will eat themselves.

Yes, I just wrote it, and yes, it took me a couple of minutes -- or, if you look at it another way, it took me several years. It doesn't happen overnight. Of course, high-flown twaddle is a lofty goal (and possibly my new favourite term) and you will find plenty of it around here -- it's our most popular kind of twaddle. If you haven't already, you should probably join the Pig's Arse. (Yes, that is every bit as disgusting as it sounds.)