When it's good, it's good.
When it's bad, it's simply awful.
Poetry's made every day like bread.
Depends on the poem.
Doggerel ... poetry from the kennel.
Poetry is not always good but it is not bad.
As I was going
Up the stair,
I met a man
Who wasn't there.
He wasn't there
Again today.
I wish, I wish
He'd go away.
It’s good to write poetry, but not read it.
Some people here, recited poetry in their youth, in a French chapeau, holding a cigarette in a funny way, while discussing Sartre.
When I was about 13ish, I wanted to be a writer. So I put a small desk in the garage attic, and along with my typewriter, an ice bucket with a glass of my Dads scotch and his pipe with Captain Black did exactly that. On day three of my new found “road to fame and fortune†I did not snuff the pipe very well and.....well....I burned the garage down....