I wrote a poem...

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and it came out f'ing TWEE (it had a line about "if you could only say forever"!!). That makes me want to cry, which just frightens me further. I turn to you, the esteemed members of the Society for Elimination of Excessive Twee-ness, for advice. Should I just put on Reign In Blood? Please, stop me before I sigh again!

― Hunter, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

New self-obsession obliterating answers, please!

― Hunter, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

*whew* I'm glad that's over! I just realized this episode has less to do with tweeness and more to do with being a crap poet. I don't normally do that sort of thing, and I conclude it is best left to those with a real inclination/talent. Like making yr own beer. You may opine on that if you wish, thanks for your help in this difficult time.

― Hunter, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

cut it up into pieces, put pieces into hat, draw them out one by one = new old poesy

― Queen G, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I wrote a poem... and it came out f'ing TWEE

The mean part of me is shrieking "WHAT DID YOU EXPECT????" at the top of its lungs right now. This is why I stopped writing poetry. (One of the last poems I wrote was about how Satan was really sorry that he was so evil, but he couldn't stop horrible things from happening wherever he went and was therefore doomed to a lonely, miserable, misunderstood existence. I don't know how I managed to write a twee poem about Satan, but there you go.)

― Dan Perry, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Write about different stuff. Not Love and Death and Other Big Emotions - unless you're good or "feeling it", you're gonna land right in Tweeville, and you are gonna hate yourself. Write about what you're wearing, cars driving by, receeding hairlines, eating beans, red wheelbarrows, buying cigarettes, burping. Not this, but this. Please see: Charles Simic, Frank O'Hara (tho they often just talk about Other Big Emotions in new & creative ways, but it's the same idea - get outta da rut).

― Daver, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

And I only link to my own poems because I don't feel like trying to find links to other folks. Any & all whiffs of self-aggrandizement are purely coincidental.

― Daver, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

An angry God, and a twee Satan. Manichean dichotomies... TRANS_MUTE! *cloud of smoke* Is it me, or does Hell seem a lot more rainy and pensive this year?

― Hunter, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

seven years pass...

yo i wrote a poem!

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 28 May 2009 03:32 (sixteen years ago)

i aint putting it here or anything just sayin

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 28 May 2009 03:32 (sixteen years ago)

i'm kinda amped that like i went through the process of inspiration and teeth pulling and surgical editing and ended up with something i'm kinda satisfied with i aint really done that in years

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 28 May 2009 03:33 (sixteen years ago)

good stuff man

― brian krakow has a posse (bug), Thursday, 28 May 2009 03:38 (sixteen years ago)

i composed it on the laptop and then texted it to a friend and thoughtlessly closed the laptop. now the only copy of it in existence is in my phone and presumably in my friend's longhand

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 28 May 2009 03:42 (sixteen years ago)

copies i guess?

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 28 May 2009 03:42 (sixteen years ago)

wouldn't it just go into hibernate mode, though? or if you wrote it on word it'd be saved on word, no? that's what usually happens for me.

― brian krakow has a posse (bug), Thursday, 28 May 2009 03:45 (sixteen years ago)

i have my eee set to power down on closing the lid though lol

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 28 May 2009 03:50 (sixteen years ago)

ahhh

did you ask your friend to save the text?

― brian krakow has a posse (bug), Thursday, 28 May 2009 03:51 (sixteen years ago)

actually i asked her to write it out before she really read it so that she wasn't reading it in tiny/text window/with slashes/where the line/breaks should go cause/i/hate that shit

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 28 May 2009 03:52 (sixteen years ago)

so who knows what state its in tbh

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 28 May 2009 03:52 (sixteen years ago)

but iirc i have it in my text "outbox" so

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 28 May 2009 03:53 (sixteen years ago)

lol @ dan's twee poem about satan

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 28 May 2009 04:03 (sixteen years ago)

also congrats hoos on falling off the wagon

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 28 May 2009 04:04 (sixteen years ago)

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