reid@uwvax.UUCP (07/18/83)
For those of you who think that I should be able to think up my own subjects for poems, and who disapproved of my article asking for "suggestions," I would like to clarify my position a little bit.... I am not unable to think up my own subjects, and if I were, I wouldn't ask you folks for help, that would be silly. I sort of got the idea from a guy I once met who was a "street poet." He could whip out verse right on the spot for just about any occasion, and he was extremely good at it. I think that that would be great practice in getting a hold of the English language and making it work for me, instead of me for it, and that is what prompted this idea of mine. I still think it is a good idea.... There will be times when the subject matter is not something with which I am acquainted, intimately or otherwise, and the peoms might there- fore suffer. However, a good enough poet can look at anything just a little differently than everybody else, and in "finding" another side to it, he writes a good poem. Or so it seems to me.... Glenn Reid ..seismo!uwvax!reid (reid@uwisc.ARPA)