From: Natalie@yabbs
To: all@yabbs
Subject: just me complaining again
Date: Tue Jul 26 20:05:27 1994

oh...for the days when ppl wrote sonnets....*sigh* of course, i just got 
email from my best friend in which there was a hate sonnet...but are we 
the only ones who write them anymore? (and i write them badly) just me 
going on about what i like and don't like as much in poetry...i do NOT 
subscribe the the notion that anything that you write is poetry.  i had 
teachers who told us that, and to be honest, i'm ashamed of what i wrote 
then.  i destroyed it all...  poetry comes from 'the foul rag and bone 
shop of the heart' (to quote you know who), for me, anyhow...the idea of 
making a thing of beauty ot of the squalor and ugliness that is inside 
myself is what makes me write poetry.  now i know that others don't feel 
the way i do, and i respect that right.  but it'd be nice to find someone 
else who feels the same way i do...*sigh* i've about had it with modern 
poetry (and it's all eliot and pound's fault, darn it...you know i HAD to 
bring them into it *smirk*)...it doesn't speak to me...it's as if i'm 
stuck back in time...and i know a lot of what i write is very modern 
poetry, but that's because altho i think in the ways of other times when i 
write poetry, my voice is of the present...

did this make any sense to anyone other than me?

natalie