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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

rhyming is too powerful and we don’t deserve it anymore. poetry that rhymes is for stuff that’s worth remembering forever. people don’t say stuff that’s worth remembering forever these days

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As a teacher of poetry what I can tell you for sure is people want poems to rhyme. They want poems to rhyme so bad. But we won’t give it to them

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

idk anything about the history of poetry but it probably stopped rhyming because of WWI or some shit right? when the world breaks apart you don’t know what’s worth remembering anymore

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is in Austin Aug 2-25

Song lyrics still rhyme all the time, and I think they are as much poetry as anything else, so I dispute the premise.

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

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there are probably a bunch of different concepts that all deserve the name “poetry” and/but i think it’s worth noting that song lyrics apparently count as different enough that nobody publishes song lyrics in poetry anthologies, e.g.

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is in Austin Aug 2-25

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Definitely, though I tend to see that as more of a social group difference?

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Imp in Tirana (86/100 Omelettes)

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I have a book of Beatles lyrics that iirc was presented poetry-ishly

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Didn't Bernie Taupin publish a book of his lyrics once?