Petp

[twelveoone]

PETP
People for the Ethical Treatment of Poetry
1. Treat the poem as fiction.

2. Assume the first person protagonist is not the writer, despite the fact that there is some overlap.

1&2. People make things up, poets do more of it, and they being writers are supposed it make it more believable, they manipulate the words for maximum effect.

3.It is to the detriment of the poem itself to spend unwarranted attention to making the protagonist look good or OK because you the poet knows the audience may be fooled into thinking that it is not fiction.

4.Because you are a poet, don't think for a minute every incident, every idea is poem-worthy or worse profound, merely because somehow that is what you think poets ought to do.

3&4. Violation of these give poets a bad name, and just generally generate bad poetry.


5. Do not think somehow you or something is purer or more noble in an act
of fiction.

6. All things can be construed as a sort of metaphor, including the poem as a whole.

 

[twelveoone]

My comment about cat killing refers to another poem, that did not violate the ethical treatment of a poem, if you wish you, the writers, can post the poem in question here and I will eviscerate it.
I have great tolerance for new writers, you, sir, are not.

 

[todski28]

Where do I get a membership?

 

[twelveoone]

Where do I get a membership?

send a dollar in unmarked change po box...

 

[UnderYourSpell]

Could you add something of the ilk ........'If you want to write about a cock going in and out, it's all been said before, a lot better and you're boring the hell out of me' ..........?

 

[Matryoshka]

PETP
People for the Ethical Treatment of Poetry
1. Treat the poem as fiction.

2. Assume the first person protagonist is not the writer, despite the fact that there is some overlap.

1&2. People make things up, poets do more of it, and they being writers are supposed it make it more believable, they manipulate the words for maximum effect.

3.It is to the detriment of the poem itself to spend unwarranted attention to making the protagonist look good or OK because you the poet knows the audience may be fooled into thinking that it is not fiction.

4.Because you are a poet, don't think for a minute every incident, every idea is poem-worthy or worse profound, merely because somehow that is what you think poets ought to do.

3&4. Violation of these give poets a bad name, and just generally generate bad poetry.


5. Do not think somehow you or something is purer or more noble in an act
of fiction.

6. All things can be construed as a sort of metaphor, including the poem as a whole.

You mean like this?

This is a true fact
I'm not writing this for you
I'm writing it for the critics whispering in the corner
Because I am self-claimed perfection in beauty, brains and grace
My amazing feats are of course greatly profound and worthy of verse
Now you call me ignorant, conceited, stupid...
But I am pure of motive and dignified
Stone statue posing in town square

 

[todski28]

Could you add something of the ilk ........'If you want to write about a cock going in and out, it's all been said before, a lot better and you're boring the hell out of me' ..........?

Damn, I guess I had better stop trying then

 

[twelveoone]

You mean like this?

This is a true fact
I'm not writing this for you
I'm writing it for the critics whispering in the corner
Because I am self-claimed perfection in beauty, brains and grace
My amazing feats are of course greatly profound and worthy of verse
Now you call me ignorant, conceited, stupid...
But I am pure of motive and dignified


Stone statue posing in town square

except for the last line
and you can further remove it by adding another line

covered in bird crap

 

[twelveoone]

Could you add something of the ilk ........'If you want to write about a cock going in and out, it's all been said before, a lot better and you're boring the hell out of me' ..........?

of a hen house? a good barnyard poem would do wonders, haven't any lately.

 

[Magnetron]

of a hen house? a good barnyard poem would do wonders, haven't any lately.

In and out
In and out
Goes my cock

My prize winning cock

Pullet

Pullet with a mullet
Strutting like a rockstar that he is
Going in and out
In and out of the henhouse

While yours
Tis nothing but a lousy grouse

 

[twelveoone]

In and out
In and out
Goes my cock

My prize winning cock

Pullet

Pullet with a mullet
Strutting like a rockstar that he is
Going in and out
In and out of the henhouse

While yours
Tis nothing but a lousy grouse

fucking five!!!
with a big set of nuggets
the king of KFC

 

[UnderYourSpell]

Damn, I guess I had better stop trying then

lol

of a hen house? a good barnyard poem would do wonders, haven't any lately.

Might ruffle some feathers

In and out
In and out
Goes my cock

My prize winning cock

Pullet

Pullet with a mullet
Strutting like a rockstar that he is
Going in and out
In and out of the henhouse

While yours
Tis nothing but a lousy grouse

Applause!

 

[bronzeage]

PETP
People for the Ethical Treatment of Poetry
1. Treat the poem as fiction.

2. Assume the first person protagonist is not the writer, despite the fact that there is some overlap.

1&2. People make things up, poets do more of it, and they being writers are supposed it make it more believable, they manipulate the words for maximum effect.

3.It is to the detriment of the poem itself to spend unwarranted attention to making the protagonist look good or OK because you the poet knows the audience may be fooled into thinking that it is not fiction.

4.Because you are a poet, don't think for a minute every incident, every idea is poem-worthy or worse profound, merely because somehow that is what you think poets ought to do.

3&4. Violation of these give poets a bad name, and just generally generate bad poetry.


5. Do not think somehow you or something is purer or more noble in an act
of fiction.

6. All things can be construed as a sort of metaphor, including the poem as a whole.

This should be part of the 7th grade English curriculum.

Could you add something of the ilk ........'If you want to write about a cock going in and out, it's all been said before, a lot better and you're boring the hell out of me' ..........?

Truth.

 

[Matryoshka]

except for the last line
and you can further remove it by adding another line

covered in bird crap

Stone statue painted by pigeons
(Glad you got it . Hehehehe)

 

[Magnetron]

I typed that with one finger on my stoopid tablet in under 60 seconds before going to bed and never finished.

 

[Magnetron]

In and out
In and out
Goes my cock

My prize winning cock

Pullet

Pullet with a mullet
Strutting like a rockstar that he is
Going in and out
In and out of the henhouse

While yours
Tis nothing but a lousy grouse

Just another groupie
Chick waiting in line to get
Laid

 

[UnderYourSpell]

In and out
In and out
Goes my cock

My prize winning cock

Pullet

Pullet with a mullet
Strutting like a rockstar that he is
Going in and out
In and out of the henhouse

While yours
Tis nothing but a lousy grouse

Just another groupie
Chick waiting in line to get
Laid

Lose the capital letters starting each line unless it's a new sentence or an Acrostic

 

[Magnetron]

Lose the capital letters starting each line unless it's a new sentence or an Acrostic

You know, I've always done it this way, every single poem I've ever written. It feels very unnatural to not do it now.

 

[butters]

You know, I've always done it this way, every single poem I've ever written. It feels very unnatural to not do it now.

fashions come
fashions go
kick the trend
not the bucket
wear clothes on a porn forum
cluck as you strut
peri-peri fer yer nuggets?

 

[butters]

dear mr numbers,

i should like to quote you in entirety but
too much of a good thing
renders it
clique-say


(couldn't find my accent on this keyboard, skew-say, moi)

 

[Magnetron]

fashions come
fashions go
kick the trend
not the bucket
wear clothes on a porn forum
cluck as you strut
peri-peri fer yer nuggets?

A Scotsman once asked me why I capitalized the first letter of every line in my poems.



I ate his spleen deep fried with a side of potato wedges and a nice Coca-Cola.


slu-slu-slu-slu-slurrrrrrrrrrrrrp

 

[butters]

A Scotsman once asked me why I capitalized the first letter of every line in my poems.



I ate his spleen deep fried with a side of potato wedges and a nice Coca-Cola.


slu-slu-slu-slu-slurrrrrrrrrrrrrp

classy

 

[Magnetron]

classy

My poetry is alot like fast food also; makes your tummy rumble and goes right through you.

 

[butters]

My poetry is alot like fast food also; makes your tummy rumble and goes right through you.

a lot

yw

and sometimes fast food hits the spot.

 

[twelveoone]

a lot

yw

and sometimes fast food hits the spot.

and if you are not quick
leaves one


I view this as another of my usually futile efforts at education or viewed once again via diagram:

dumbass shit writer> dung poem< dim reader

Perfect together,
but not likely for long, as some one is going to wander off to the vastly more interesting reality TV.

good writer>interesting poem<good reader

this begins to crack


as long as you don't drop the pipe and set fire to the place