>went to a poetry event in my city last night>took along a lengthy alexandrine poem I'd worked on for weeks>assumed there would qt3.14 artsy girls there (I was right)>lingered at the back of the room so they wouldn't think I was a creep>several people get up to read (four or five women and one guy)>audience clap at the end of each poem>I'm next (here's my time to shine)>get on stage and read into the microphone>feel like I've done a good job>people clap for a bit >next guy gets up and is dressed like a slob>reads a brief humorous freeverse poem like he's performing a skit>nothing rhymes but the audience is laughing really loud>wtf>literally cheering as he walks back to sit in the crowd>couple of people left>evening ends and then people start socialising>stand around awkwardly hoping will speak to me>see the freeverse dude and he's literally surrounded>a bunch of qt3.14s and their beta orbiters are listening to him speak>feel depressed as fuck and walk home>wrote some free verse about dying alone>ended up with another alexandrine poem
>writing for external recognitionngmi
>>25053754That's because he was charismatic and fun, not because of the quality of his work. You should have grandiosely belted out your alexandrine like you were LARPing as a medieval bard, and then after the event you chad stride up to the art hoes and call them wenches.
>>25053754Hey, this is a story about me. I used to live near an art academy for MFAs, and would frequent their poetry slams. My style is fast, maximalist, and designed to entertain even if my meter is shit. I have much more practice than my qualifications would indicate. I'd show up in a hoodie and workboots, incant some insulting nonsense on the fly with a few literary references, get free beers, and go home with some dour bespectacled lass who has a foot of cleavage and mediocre to moderate artistic ability. Meanwhile the people with meticulous structured poetry and months of workshopping would be dejected about it, then talk shit about how they've never seen me around campus or in any of their classes.I spoke with a professor about a scholarship when he offered me a cigarette and a beer. He said I could probably get one, but given the choice, he'd rather the free beers and company.
>>25053754Should have shot up the place
>OP doesn't post poem
>>25053796OP's post is the poem
>>25053754Women generally don’t have good taste. That’s why if I’m trying to woo a woman with my music I’ll send her my shitty indie folk songs or some punk bangers I made when I was in a band, not the fugues and tone poems I’ve written that I take much more pride in but most women don’t want to listen to. There are many other more important factors too like your physical appearance, how you dress, and how you carry yourself
>Be me, chad>See flyer for poetry night>always felt like people only liked me for my looks, not my brains>i will prove them wrong>spend hours writing>go>couple people read some very beautiful poems>handssweaty.exe>next guy gets up, dressed like a real poet>recites the most wonderful poem i've ever heard>slight tear falls from my eye>my turn>get up and read poem>Everyone's clapping but its not good enough>end of the event, all the girls surrounding me like always>They only like me for me looks>see the poet quietly leave like a real scholar would>Wish i had the courage to talk to himThe grass is always greener, retard
>>25053787>>25053787>and go home with some dour bespectacled lass who has a foot of cleavage and mediocre to moderate artistic ability. So....did you fuck any of these chicks? How often would this happen?
>>25053861>Did you fuck them?All the time. So often it was no longer an accomplishment.>How often?Biweekly for like two years straight.
>>25053894Damn. Some people just have all the luck.
>>25053754I'm so glad I met my gf through work and only exposed her to my creative side after we'd been dating for awhile. Women that specifically seek out creatives are whores.
>>25053927Sure. Not me though. I worked very hard at what I did; everyone has positives and negatives.I remember going to an art gallery for an opening with this 6'5" opera singer I was dating at the time (I'm a fair bit taller than that) and I overheard someone talking shit about my writing from the day before. Described me as "what would happen if Shrek read a rhyming dictionary and fell face first into a general arts degree after getting concussed off the football team" (I vividly remember). Tiny, spindly little man with ripped jeans and an expensive flannel. Never worked a day in his life. Wrote a poem about a bridge that was a metaphor for building a relationship with the most overwrought purple prose imaginable. My woman told me to kick his ass, so I walked over in my blazer with my slicked hair, looking like security for some mob boss, and when he turned to me, he wasnt afraid. He wasnt embarassed. He didnt recognize me at all because of the context, my outfit, and the company I was with. He just smiled, asked if I played basketball, and said he was looking forward to my date's performance in The Marriage of Figaro.I could have lifted him over my head with one arm. I could have insulted him with such creativity and vigor that it would have changed him forever. But it didn't matter. Acting like an animal would just reinforce everything he said about me, so I laughed, told him I write poetry and was concussed one too many times for it to be any good, but mostly use excel. He looked confused, I dont think he understood, then went on with his evening like nothing happened.I still practice every day, even if I'm more charismatic than talented. All the women in the world wont fix a fucked first impression because you dont look like an artist. But they will make you dinner and do your laundry, so I am thankful for that.
>blogposting retard thinks he's interesting enough to write about himself
>>25054067>Women that specifically seek out creatives are whores.bro quoting the scriptures. ancient knowledge.
>>25053894it makes me so mad how many girls and varied some guys have had sex with
>>25053810 quit romanticising antisocial behavior. truly learned people i think always recognize ANYBODY could have something valuable to share.
>>25054091Of course everyone in this thread is completely telling the truth. Especially the guy claiming to be at least 6'7 and to dazzle pretty much the exact same poetry slam MFA group in a biweekly poetry slam and somehow go home with a different woman every couple of weeks (as if MFA creative writing programs are very large and wouldn't have been basically composed of the same small group of people each time making one night stands impossible or extremely awkward). He's also absolutely not lying about the obviously bulshit story about having a 6'5 opera singer girlfriend and somehow overhearing someone for some reason loudly talking about his shit poetry at an art gallery, and somehow this guy talking about his poetry not recognising when this 6'7 giant confronted him because he was wearing different clothes. Men never lie about the number of women they get with and no-one ever makes up stupid bullshit on the internet, especially not on anonymous forums where there are no consequences for doing so.
>>25054651According to the stats, there are approximately 300 MFA students at that college in any given year with aproximately 5000 undergrads as of 2023. People look radically different between wearing a hoodie in a dark bar drunk and unkempt versus a bightly lit art gallery wearing a blazer, particularly in a large city, but he may have had a great poker face and I'm an idiot, who knows. If I wanted to lie I could easily tell a better one. But my poetry is shit, you are right about that.
>>25054794stupid sexy ass toe chad laurete
>>25053754Successful poetry readings are more like standup comedy or performance art, and take some advice from a chad who has fucked dozens of art hoes, if she thinks you are fun, she will think you are fun in bed.
>>25054895>dozensno man is truly damned until he's damned himself kek
>>25053754Sounds like they got filtered by your work, anon. People tell me a lot here that I’ve been filtered. It means that we can’t comprehend greatness. You’re in a class of untouchable artists and philosophers now.
>>25054651>having a 6'5 opera singer girlfriend>girlfriendBlud's gaydar all fucked up :skull:
>>25053754Hey buddy, and I mean this as politely as possible - Kill yourself. Do it on stage. Permanently change the audience's lifes.
>>25056045>lifesDon't listen to him, OP. This anon may be polite, but he is retarded.
>>25054913>no man is truly damned until he's damned himself kekI will NOT apologize for fucking art hoes at gallery openings and "readings" My body swells with power for each one that submits to me. Makes me feel like Ozymandias, King of Kings, and no amount of fellowships and art grants can compare to the strength of having my nuts in single woman's mouth.
>>25053754You encountered a "jack of clubs" kind of guy. That kind of person is skillful with putting his psychosocial tendrils into any social hierarchy and using it to passively molest anyone who sticks out as strange in a social setting. If we lived in a fair world where you could point out the harm they were doing without sounding crazy then you could have reported this guy for assault and stopped him, but he will just continue to go on harassing hundreds of people every week the same without punishment because we live in a jack of clubs hell scape.
>>25056076You're doing some heavy projecting
>>25054175I believe that everyone has something valuable to share. Its truly incredible how name test this theory to its absolute limits every single time
>>25056089>You are doing some heavy gaslighting.
you should have walked over to the chad and complimented his work and joined the socialization this has nothing to so with your pow and everything to do with you being an awkward nerd
>>25056176Whomst hath thou qouthed?
>>25056076sorry buddy, you dont sound crazy, and even the morst normal well adjusted normies know this as truth, but its the biggest crime to ever say this out loud, they will call you names and whatever, but deep down they all know it to be true. Same with the thing that 99 percent of the people do something because they want to be seen doing that thing and be known as a person who does that thing than rather the joy for the act itself. And people who found joy and purpose in that itself mostly started out with insincere motivation themselves, except for some turbo autists. There are some more similar things that are the glue of modern social communication and harmonizing where everything is a big sham but we gotta pretend and move in our cardhouse of made up parameters and concepts. They can call us friendless loser or sexless incel or autistic weirdo, killjoy, moodkiller whatever, but deep down all know that we are hundred percent right
>>25053754I can't help recognizing the history and context of textuality in poems, the free verse conservation, the breath line extension, the return to orality at the moment of cultural Marxist hype machine glory, the intellectualist poems of class war and later academic hold over representations, the power of cultural hegemony becoming and now fully inverted. Free verse is just as whimsical and nostalgic as the gilded formulas of the upper middle class. You think the cia can bring about poetic forms otherwise anymore if in the end there is only this nosebleed? Nowhere has anything, redemption, aspirations, fashionable, intertextuality, linkable smut brigade shenanigans false God deists destruction. And we had a good show: there were accusations about Ginsberg as a careerist poet and it never left me. The adventures I sought out were to represent both of these modes, to be with and be both men. I am alone. We are alone. (But I have loved and lived and gathered flowers and wrote poetry as joke just as I wrote confessions as jokes and songs as jokes and, and, and...maybe I wanted less all along to be the one who gets the girl or the man alone, but instead the one who understood, the one for whom it was not a trial). I have hated in my own way those who have misunderstood me, and I have laughed with some sadness at the stupidity of friends and family who felt ashamed for my jokes. And if you believed I wanted them to not be a cruelty, you might be right, but I would not hold heart so carelessly. Ruin has always be there, as I am not good enough, but I am better and I despise it. If this isn't as good of advice as you've received, I devised a plan to make it worse, and let punkish shits quaf my text.
All the worst poets I know are the ones with groupies, m8. Don't take it too personally.
>>25053766>This was all you needed to do to make friends in 2010Millennials don't know how good they had it... sigh...
>>25053754Next time high five that guy and small talk him cockblocking all the roasties
