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weirdelf
weirdelf
Jun 27, 2007 ⭐ View statistics (Premium feature)

Corporate Poetry

I am a poet
I work in a bookshop
sounds like bliss
a pig in shit
yes and no
the beancounters measure value
by sales per square metre
poetry suffers
quality suffers
I argue
and argue
they punish
less hours
less poetry

I spit in the face
of any advocacy
of corporatism

— weirdelf, Jun 27, 2007

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Region, Country: Sydney, Australia, AUS

Favorite Poets: The Romantics, The Mersey Sound, The Beats and, of course, The Bard

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LF

lithium flower

18 years 11 months ago

?!

I just don't know what it is but it is half good and have questionable. Not one of my favorite works.
weirdelf

weirdelf

18 years 11 months ago

It's not a good poem

Just had a bad day at work. The first two lines and the last three are the only important ones. cheers, Jess
C

Conect11

18 years 11 months ago

ok, good

lith, now try to describe WHAT you didn't enjoy about the poem and why.
Q

Quillsvein1

18 years 11 months ago

Revolt revolt

Any resistance to the stultifying and life-destroying death culture of corporate America is welcomed--and it should be particularly welcomed in the realm of poetry, which after all has a rich heritage of revolt. Fight on!
LF

lithium flower

18 years 11 months ago

ok then

mostly 3 word lined poems aren't my types. It's scattered, but appreciative and jess was right about the good parts everything else was like a puzzle not put together right. No effense jess. I should the know best of all that they all can't be diamonds. but sometimes cubic zirconium or cheap plastic
weirdelf

weirdelf

18 years 11 months ago

No offense taken

At another time if you like I could explain some of the figures of speech that seem to have confused you. Well put about diamonds, cubic zirconium or cheap plastic cheers, Jess
RSScheerer

RSScheerer

18 years ago

You would do better

to own your own library - guardian of the works therein. I would suggest a bookstore, but I think part of you might die each time a book walked out the door. ~ Ronda
Frederick Kesner

Frederick Kesner

16 years 4 months ago

as do i

'spit in the face... of corporation' If I had a stake in my hand I would drive it down that evil heart as well.
Rett

Rett

16 years 4 months ago

I always find it interesting

That even a poet who treasures books wants to kill corporations. Those people that set the type, bind the books, send them to dealers whose buildings were built by corporations and the poets whose pens, papers, inks computers etc.. are built by corporations. But then again, we poets are not all that magnanimous. We bare our souls and will kill anything in words that are the outlets of frustration, love or hatred. Needs work, but quite interesting. Respectfully, Rett: “Anyone who sacrifices liberty for security deserves neither.” Benjamin Franklin
weirdelf

weirdelf

16 years 4 months ago

Craftsmen are not corporations

Even businesses are not necessarily corporations. I mean a very specific thing- the corporate structure which gives the corporation the rights of a human being but none of the accountability. Some publishing businesses have been fine purveyors and supporters of literature. Corporations have no motivation beyond profit. There is a huge difference. Cheers, Jess, reprehensibly irrepressible
whitetea

whitetea

16 years 4 months ago

Excellent. I agree,

Excellent. I agree, publishing companies much like the music industry do not value talent over profit
weirdelf

weirdelf

16 years 4 months ago

thanks whit,

I wonder if Rett in his proselytizing conservatism can justify the great evil, corporations. Cheers, Jess, reprehensibly irrepressible