Bullshit
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This is bullshit
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This
That
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Old jazzy analogy
where the gasps and gaps hold importance
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White space empty
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As important as your poesy prose
eroticised linguistics
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How the page commands
and dominates
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The words
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Butchered
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For consumers
Feasters
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Fervent poetry junkies
Getting their fix
Ravenous
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There’s always some motherfucker
waiting to tell you what you can’t do
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Spread it wide spread it thin
i will
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Lose or gain meaning
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fuck
and clarity
.
you
.
in the spaces
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up
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Paul Stewart
Award-Winning Writer, Poet, Scottish-Italian, Subversive.
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There is always a moment — small, quiet, almost forgettable — when the spark stops being a warning and becomes a state. It never looks like a turning point from the outside. It’s not a dramatic shift. It’s not a cinematic beat. It’s a subtle internal click, a recalibration so slight that only someone who has lived this cycle as many times as I have would recognize it.
By Elisa Wontorcika day ago in Poets
Comments (9)
100% relatable. It’s easy for the nay sayers to say, “you’re doing it wrong”, but fuck that. To me, it’s about creating in however you want to express yourself. Love this, Paul
There's no better motivation than someone telling us that we can't do something. Loved this!
Hell to the yeah. This fucking slaps. A joyride.
There are rules to poetry, yet most of those rules are meant to be challenged and in cases …broken, Write on Paul
Nope. My response to this is...we shouldn't allow anyone or anything to dilute our voices. We are who we are.Thumbs up, Paul.
Poetry junkies haha. Ya writing poetry there is no set way-poetry is so open and complex. I felt the wrath
Lol poetry junkies. They can tell us what we can't do, but we won't listen 🙂↔️ Exploring the blank space again I see! amazing work, Paul.
Wow, the power in this piece. You put a lot of anger into this one. Well done, Paul <3
Your use of white space in this poem for so perfectly with the tension and anger. Everything felt perfectly timed with the spacing to emphasize the meaning. I loved how you intermixed the words of the last eight lines to highlight the importance of what comes between the words. Again a very Paul poem. One that begs the question, are you having a rough day?