@zebratron2084 Like, for sure!

@kistaro It's like, fractally awful. ;_____; I could have just as easily said "pathos" instead of "bathos." I just want to give this woman a hug and say something really nice about... her makeup or cooking or grandkids or something, anything to steer the topic from her poetry. O_o;;;

@zebratron2084 Many people are passionate about things! Many people are incompetent at things. When people are passionate about things they are incompetent at, the Internet happens.

@kistaro As do a guy in a jumpsuit and a couple of robots. :D

@zebratron2084 @kistaro I guess at least it's not the worst I've heard...

@Soreth @kistaro I dunno, I do get serious Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings vibes from her.

@zebratron2084 @kistaro Whoa, harsh.

;)

@Soreth @kistaro

The dead swans lay in the stagnant pool.
They lay. They rotted. They turned
Around occassionally.
Bits of flesh dropped off them from
Time to time.
And sank into the pool's mire.
They also smelt a great deal.

@zebratron2084 @Soreth And if YOU can SMELL a GREAT DEAL too, come on down to CARSON’S PAWN & BAIT SHOP for —

@kistaro @Soreth (good line!)

@zebratron2084 @kistaro @Soreth as a kid I noticed I liked my (still not very good) poetry a lot more after discovering that I could do free verse/blank verse without it shattering the universe or messing up anything in particular.

@Leucrotta @kistaro @Soreth Yeah. Seriously. I honestly do think that a little academic experience could do wonders for this woman. Just a crash course in meter and traditional structures and the fact there's more to poetry than rhyming couplets with zero scansion.