I dislike poetry.
Hidden meanings are omnipresent, but in poetry it is amplified to an enormous degree. Within a single line, it is so convoluted and twisted within the letters that it must be read over and over and over--
Things should be kept simple. Straightforward.
It has turned into a rigid academic discourse, focusing solely on the words in its literal form, deconstructing its supposed structure, analyzing its very bones, criticizing deviants, categorizing what is and what is not, assigning it meaning.
"How many lines in a sonnet?" asks a professor.
The class chants the answer.
Some things should be left alone.
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