Poets need more hecklers…
Or hecklers… period.
With baskets of rotten tomatoes
And scathing acid-kissed quips and truth-telling insults —
Like a Waldorf and Statler for our own pockets (that’s where I keep my own little hecklers… for humility’s sake).
Comedians and thespians shouldn’t have exclusive rights to being heckled in public.
I don’t say this because I dislike poetry —
I say this because
I love it.
And I love poets —
For all their visions and self-pitying compositions of lettered misery,
And for all of their (seemingly) unguarded hearts and souls.
But the air gets a little stuffy up here in the rafters of spontaneous overflow
And expression of heightened (often lunatic) emotions.
And the arrangement of feeling into an impossible but bravely attempted translation.
There is far too much solemnity in poetry,
And not nearly enough fun
And self-mockery
And downright tricksterism (there is an ambition… a trickster poet…).
This is why I feature my own set of hecklers at the bottom of almost every poem
In italics.
Because if I take myself too seriously,
I,
And everyone else,
Will die of boredom.
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❤👽
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*** So, is this my cue to continue making fun of you and your “poems”, Toots? ***
*** Whatever floats your boat or untangles your bodangles, old man! It’s open season for poet heckling. ***
Well then… That sounds like a challenge that I’ve seen bandied about a few times lately. It might almost be a… theme?
Be careful what you ask for — you might just get it.
Poetic Monkey’s Paw.
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Lol! I am all for some good old-fashioned heckling. Poets are stuck up 😂😂😂
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Poets aren’t stuck up!
Okay, they are. Good thing I’m a wordsmith who prefers writing in stanzas and I am most definitely not a poet. I’d have to cover my face in shame. Stuck up, prigs.
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Nice euphemism for “poet”… lol Poets also don’t like to refer to themselves as poets even though they bloody well write poetry every day…. bah!
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Nasty filthy habit and I wash my hands afterwards.
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What with all the blood shed that comes with poeming…. makes sense….
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Blood?
I mean, yeah. Yeah. Bloody work, writing is. Totally not anything else. Just blood. 🤣🤣🤣
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Only the really good stuff gets bloody.
…
Where the frack are the blood emojis anyway? I actually looked in the food emoji section. That’s weird.
I need a new metaphor… lol Hence why I need a heckler.
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I thought the italics were a second person/personality 😂
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That too!!!! 🤣🤣🤣
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After the pandemic, organize an open mic and I’ll perform. I’ll even bring a bushel week-old produce for the audience.
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We should all perform! Also… BYORP…
Bring Your Own Rotten Produce!
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Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!
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AHHHHHHH! YOU ENGLISH PIG DOGS!!!! I effing love Monty Python omg
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