Okay I've finally figured it out I mean if

b''h 

6 Oct 2013

Okay I've finally figured it out I mean if

You dig having labels for everything and

Everybody knows that you do even though you

Say that you don't because it's not cool or

Something to admit you label everything and

All so anyhow I finally figured out a good

Label for myself I'm a certified anti-poet and

That doesn't mean that I am like against poets or

Anything it just means that I hate all this

Phony stuff that snooty poets say about being a

Poet and all and how they say that poetry is

This or that like they give it all these

Labels and then if what you write doesn't

Fit in with their labels or whatever then 

You're not an official poet so anyhow it 

Came to me in like a flash of lightning that

If you're not a poet according to them then

You might really be an anti-poet like me. 

D L Firestone Feinberg

Reviews

[jacob erin-cilberto]

great stuff...poets being snobs and thinking they really know what poetry is.

i found that the longer i have done this, the less i feel i know about it.

we just do the best we can in relating life through words.

[Firestone Feinberg]

I just read an article from an online encyclopedia about What Is Poetry. The author concluded that poetry had something to do with words. I guess it's okay to be a snob and so on, but it seems to me that that elitist attitude killed poetry. So that most people don't even want to read it; they got turned off... I'm like you. The more I grow the less I know... and to me that's grand! Thanks again Jacob. --d

[jacob erin-cilberto]

the elitists are usually the worst poets also...

their work is stiff, form accentuated and often lacks real heart.

[Firestone Feinberg]

you are a blessing

[bobc]

D...made me smile again. (But I'm beginning to wonder if you think I'm one of those fancy-pants, word-slicker, official poets who label everything they see. I kind of like anti-poets too.) Keep 'em coming...bobc

[Firestone Feinberg]

Yo I think I'm even one of those snobs -- despite my protestations... here I am defining what poetry should be... haha