“If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul.”
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Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it.
I've written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck.
I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful, but the space on the page can be as affecting as where the text is. Like when Miles Davis doesn't play, it has a poignancy to it.
Poetry does not consist of words alone there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement.
