Do you ever feel completely hopeless?

[Jen]

I should be working on my book right now.
I should be sending it to agents and figuring out what to do about Mixed Identity, which no agents wanted.

But I'm not. Instead, I'm reading crap like this (http://ncfwhitetigress.livejournal.com/22400.html#cutid1), probably because I want to feel better about myself and my prospects. But it's just making me feel even more hopeless.

I was talking to a friend who said that one of the reviewers had written the following comment on the work of a student in our class: "Why are you even bothering to write?"

That's what I'm thinking, over and over again as I read this. And here are some quotes, provided for reviewing purposes.

So they snip and cut for an extra buck, while shitty justifications to us are sent

Fuck all their excuses and tell those deuces who like to cause little ones pain

That the cash flow will end as well as the days of their psycho witchdoctor reign

So next time you’re in a maternal position and the doctor comes to you with a proposition

That he take away your precious newborn and return him to you with his foreskin shorn

The answer should never be “yes” or “maybe,” so just cut the crap and not the baby

To hell with this horrific form of legal sexual assault, this type of symbolic castration

Some day true sexual freedom will take over and consume our beautiful nation


Could there possibly be any more cliches in this one segment of the poem? I can't think of anywhere else where one could possibly be added, it's so chock full of them. I mean, I know the author has a social message, but please, if you can't write without cliche, leave the writing to the writers.

Has the internet really made everyone think they're a writer or poet?

At least it delivers some laughs as well:

But that day’s not today and male-bashing continues in other forms as well

Like with the terrible attitude that most forms of entertainment and media like to sell

That if a guy sees a girl and her crotch he dares stroke, it’s sexual assault by a misogynist bloke

But a kick to a male groin is some kind of joke and that’s all on that topic that needs to be spoke

So, in the author's opinion, guys should feel free to stroke girls' crotches whenever they feel like it. Is this a world we want to live in? Well, I'll be it's a world Kiwi wants to live in, but as for everyone else, what the hell?

There is hope for humanity, though, as another poem on the site leads me to believe the site is a fake. In the same author's Brokeback Love Poem (http://ncfwhitetigress.livejournal.com/21774.html#cutid1), the following lines appear. Once again, I am not making this up.

Ennis del Mar, the strong, silent type,
Took the blue-eyed Jack Twist you’ll hear
Flipped him over, heard no gripe,
And went straight for the rear
Their love was passionate and rough
And hardly lubricated
Never stopping till they’d had enough
Their cravings satiated

This can't be serious.

Please tell me that this isn't serious.
Please.

[Angel]

...
I was already having a bad night.
After reading that, I think I'm going to go kill myself.

[Jen]

Sometimes, all you can do is laugh.
But yeah, I think reading her poetry diminished what little hope I had left in humanity.

[jimmy]

Jen, the last one was a limerick! I've never seen a serious limerick. But they're usually pretty funny.

Yes, the Internet has made everyone a writer. Life sucks. Just do your best and hope you can make a living from it. If you can't, remember you're trying to break into a very cutthroat and fickle industry, and maybe find a regular job that pays well that you can tolerate. Like I did. :p

[Jen]

Trust me, I've resigned myself to doing just that. I've been crying for about a week straight, but I'm finally getting used to the idea.

I don't think I can bring myself to do self-publishing, so I will probably never be published.

As for what I quoted, the part of the last one that I quoted was pretty clever and made me laugh. But the rest of the poem was about the same as the first two exerpts I posted.

[theonenonlyrach]

Question. Who's is that?

[Jen]

The writer of the bad poems, you mean?
She's some random person I encountered on Livejournal whose poetry was so bad that I just had to post it.

[theonenonlyrach]

Okie dokie.
Just curious.
I'm surprised that it's not a post about Sandeii!
(gasp)

[jimmy]

Yeah, no one can pass up an opportunity to slam sandeii.

[Angel]

Only because she's gagging for it.

[Tex]

Pretty much, yeah.

[Courtney]

Fuck, don't post my work without permission. :p

[Jen]

If you'd written it, I'd have found it funny because I've seen the rest of your work. This girl looks like she produces a steady stream of this quality and subject matter.