06-03-2012, 01:57 PM
If he’s your mate, please still abate,
I care not to what you pretend,
just quit rushing to his defense,
as if he is really your boyfriend.
He’s a big boy now -you know-
so there’s just no use in pretending.
Really….no, he can take care of himself,
he needs not your ardent defending!
© -Erthona
About the caretaking attitude on another site, so severe that not even a slightly negative word may be implied. In several instances (straight) men were rushing to defend (straight) men, lest they get their feelings hurt. I had left a crit on a poem by a friend of mine, someone I had known for years, and some male sycophant of his threatened to have me thrown off the site. The real kicker was this guy told me I knew nothing about poetry when he had no conception of what I was talking about, and castigated me for using such nonsense terms as "dactyl". It was great fun, but it gets so repetitious. I did as I usually do and wrote a poem about it :p
I care not to what you pretend,
just quit rushing to his defense,
as if he is really your boyfriend.
He’s a big boy now -you know-
so there’s just no use in pretending.
Really….no, he can take care of himself,
he needs not your ardent defending!
© -Erthona
About the caretaking attitude on another site, so severe that not even a slightly negative word may be implied. In several instances (straight) men were rushing to defend (straight) men, lest they get their feelings hurt. I had left a crit on a poem by a friend of mine, someone I had known for years, and some male sycophant of his threatened to have me thrown off the site. The real kicker was this guy told me I knew nothing about poetry when he had no conception of what I was talking about, and castigated me for using such nonsense terms as "dactyl". It was great fun, but it gets so repetitious. I did as I usually do and wrote a poem about it :p
How long after picking up the brush, the first masterpiece?
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.