I got told I'd end up in the gutter which proved to be correct. No one ever held out any hopes for me. Was never considered a promising student
I don't have to move to wisconsin to find pedos, apparently!!
Nobody lives off poetry, not even Ben Lerner
Every time Ive done one of those I feel Im in some unspoken battle of wits with the poet. Once the poet asked me to talk about myself so he could find a topic and I ended up getting a poem that went essentially 'heres things a stupid person is into' followed by everything I had just relayed to him
I bet you can't though I bet you can't even write a single line
Some subjects are just irreducible... larger than life, really... or verse