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Reading the poets has been the dullest of things. |
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Even reading the great novelists of the past, I said, "Tolstoy is supposed to be special?" |
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I go to bed, I read War and Peace. |
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I read it, I read it, I say, "Where is the specialist in War and Peace?" |
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I really tried to understand. |
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I mean, and then many of the great poets of the past, I've read their stuff. |
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I've read it. All I get is a goddamn headache and boredom. |
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I really feel sickness in the pit of my stomach, |
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I say, "There's some trick going on here, this is not true, this is not real, it's not good." |
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You see poetry itself contains as much energy as a Hollywood industry. |
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As much energy as a stage play on Broadway. |
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All it needs is practitioners who are alive to bring it alive. |
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Poetry has always been said to be a private, hidden art. |
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Not appreciated. |
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The reason it's not appreciated is because it hasn't shown any guts, hasn't shown any dance, hasn't shown any moxie. |
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Poetry is generally very dull, very pretensive. |
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Uh, those who say the poet is very private and precious person, I don't agree with. |
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Generally, he is just a dumb, fiddling asshole writing insecure lines that don't come through, |
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Believing he's immortal, waiting for his immortality which never arrives. |
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Because the poor ****er just can't write. |
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Most poets, coets, whoets, carrots, can't even write a simple line. |
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Like, "The dog walked down the street." |
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Nothing should ever be done that should be done. |
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It has to come out like a good hot beer shit. |
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A good hot beer shit is glorious man. |
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You get up, turn around, look at it and your proud. |
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The fumes, the stink of the turd, you look, you say, "God, I did it. I'm good." |
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