What are you doing right now?

[EndOfTheEarth]

Besides posting on here and replying to this thread. Original credit for this goes back to Fate and Nathan on MX.

[nathan_p]

By those standards you could say exactly the same of the Bible >.>

[EndOfTheEarth]

I do say exactly the same of the Bible. And modern poetry for that manner.

[nathan_p]

With modern poetry it's a direct reflection on the quality of the writing, not on the kind of nuts who read the book.

[EndOfTheEarth]

...nah, I've read plenty of modern poetry with high-quality writing. It's the subject matter.

[nathan_p]

Then it seems I've been hanging around the wrong poets.

[EndOfTheEarth]

Here's one from the writing class I took this semester. If you're not bored after the fourth stanza, I'll be amazed.

[EndOfTheEarth]

Or better yet, read the one in here by Niedecker

[Fake]

By the same logic, practically everything has killed someone.

[nathan_p]

Modern poetry is a weapon of mass destruction >.>

[EndOfTheEarth]

That's true :D

[Fake]

And that's not even going into suicide.

I'm sure at least seven people have killed themselves as a result of me talking to them when I was in one of my little emotional ruts.

[Fake]

Guns don't kill people.

J.D. Salinger kills people.

With his fucking mind.