Submitted by Tim Barrus, Aug 6, 2007 07:57

Good ridance to the perteptual focus on Feel Good Poetry, Happiness and Butterflies Poetry, and Poetry about some Idiot Poet's Lawn. You think I'm kidding. But no. Mainstream Poetry has marched Bootstep, Goosestep, and Rhetoricstep in military tune with a desperate culture's desperate need to reaffirm its grasp on making sure everyone follows the party line that the culture itself is the color of a rose. But another name would be darkness which is a place that when we turn the mirror around the sun does not shine brightly or otherwise. The Happiness Poets have reigned for far too long. There IS another side and it's about time we started listening to someone who fathoms how to turn the mirror around where our reflections are not quite so pretty or in awe of our own disingenuous flattery.

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