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Back in the day, if you were some rich aristocrat fuckoo, you'd spend your days writing poetry and philsophy, and boasting about living a leisurely life where you can spend your time on higher pursuits. but now, our rich people dont do poo poo like that, they post sigma grind-set videos on instagram and spend their time trying to make even more money where are the rich people and their home built laboratories, trying to invent little clouds for their gardens or something. what happened to the dudes who would get ridiculously good at painting so they could woo the rich girl in the next town over and in the process, start a new visual narrative movement. instead of trying to live as easily as possible and doing dumb art things, they all now wake up at 4am to take a cold shower and spend their day trying to diversify their portfolio. bunk
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They do it's called tweeting.
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Apr 3, 2023 06:58
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the smartphone exists now OP modern intercontinental airliner travel exists OP internet clout now exists OP FUK U OP! Chinatown fucked around with this message at 07:04 on Apr 3, 2023 |
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Apr 3, 2023 07:02
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Basically my point is that the world has changed. And everyone has realized that poetry is, at teh end of the day, WACK AS FUK.
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Apr 3, 2023 07:05
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Rich kids are too busy doing drugs and coping with various mental illnesses caused by being too wealthy apparently.
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Apr 3, 2023 07:25
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Back in the day the rich had slaves that wrote the poetry for them. hth.
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Apr 3, 2023 07:29
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They're clearly too busy making their wealth trickle down on us. ... hey, why does it smell like pee??
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Apr 3, 2023 07:43
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Ever since the lower middle class office workers could just gently caress around at work and pursue their hobbies such as jet skis the rich writing about their lame rear end leisure time just doesn't hit.
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Apr 3, 2023 08:28
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and miles to post before i sleep. and miles to post before i sleep.
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Apr 3, 2023 08:39
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Why don't the rich run social clubs or throw elaborate dinner parties for visiting VIPs at their estates anymore? You never hear them brag "I'm entertaining the Duke of Bumblefuck and the Olympic skinny dipping gold medalist at the manor this weekend" like in the old days.
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Apr 3, 2023 09:59
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I like poetry and I'm a dipshit bitch, so let that be a lesson!
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Apr 3, 2023 10:16
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Poetry requires a connection to humanity, which is something anyone with more than £10,000 in their savings immediately loses
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Apr 3, 2023 10:27
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There has been a very real decline of interest in poetry, OP, all through the 20th century and possibly earlier. There are lots of possible explanations. The fact that it became something made by/for "rich people", or just for fancy, artsy people might be a big reason. If you go back far enough, it was far more accessible and widespread. Back in the day, you'd have people who'd memorize (or even make up) poems without even being literate. The fact that it's a poem made memorization easier. Though you could also argue that it's not really in decline, and most modern poetry is just set to music. We just lost interest in poems on their own.
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Apr 3, 2023 10:41
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I'm poor and write poetry. Here's a sample.Titled ":V" posted:The turkey baster debased her
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Apr 3, 2023 10:42
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syntaxfunction posted:I'm poor and write poetry. Here's a sample. 
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Apr 3, 2023 10:54
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They invented the middle class and delegated it to them instead.
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Apr 3, 2023 11:09
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Astrochicken posted:and miles to post before i sleep. *quietly takes out a suitcase from under the bed, begins assembling a sniper rifle*
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Apr 3, 2023 11:25
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They lost the urge after what befell that poor man from Nantucket.
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Apr 3, 2023 11:58
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THe poor have taken over poetry and it is called RAP ROCK!
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syntaxfunction posted:I'm poor and write poetry. Here's a sample. I bore witness to a slurry of her fetid anal curry Into my mouth it slides My diarrhoea prize
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Apr 3, 2023 12:43
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super sweet best pal posted:Why don't the rich run social clubs or throw elaborate dinner parties for visiting VIPs at their estates anymore? You never hear them brag "I'm entertaining the Duke of Bumblefuck and the Olympic skinny dipping gold medalist at the manor this weekend" like in the old days. you don't?
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Apr 3, 2023 13:16
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It's all about generational wealth you never had to work for Those are the ones living a life of leisure
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I’m a rich piece of poo poo My wealth I have stolen If the world were more just My head, she’d be rollin’
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I performed this piece at my local poetry slam, with a background tape (casette duh) of found sounds I compiled (the sounds were largely snippets I recorded at amateur music nights poorly spliced together). I could tell everyone was in awe because not one word was spoken after it, I was just silently ushered off the stage.quote:I remember when I was a CHILD
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Apr 3, 2023 14:09
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Is this the new rap battle thread
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Apr 3, 2023 14:16
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Nobody reads modern poetry. The only people that read poetry are other poets trying to get published in poetry magazines. I doubt 99.9% of people can name a contemporary poet.
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Apr 3, 2023 14:21
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Poetry died with its inventor, Edgar Allan Poe
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Apr 3, 2023 14:22
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they can write all the poetry they like 
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Apr 3, 2023 14:31
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Poetry ain't enough anymore, you need rhythm as well now. Rich folks, by and large, do not have it.
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Apr 3, 2023 14:33
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They have no real lives an so no internal dialogue. Something you need to know about rich people is they are always busy. Its often pointless busy, but they are being mentally busy. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, a way to stop people being depressed is about putting aside bad thoughts you cant control and staying busy. This isn't two disconnected things. Sitting and having time to think and write poetry, is not something a rich person wants to do. Because what does thinking do? It makes you depressed. And who should be the most depressed and upset about why they are rich? And yes it is different now than the 1800's. Wee fucked around with this message at 14:42 on Apr 3, 2023 |
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Usher - Yeah
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Songbearer posted:Poetry requires a connection to humanity, which is something anyone with more than £10,000 in their savings immediately loses Its this. Humanity is a precious jewel posessed by those that struggle or have faced an adversity that is not governed by which tie to wear while you lay off 1000s of workers in order to increase shareholder value .001% The biggest problem I see is that the we will never know a lot of the people that could be producing amazing works of art because maybe they are trapped in menial jobs like standing in front of self checkout at walmart where every third person steals 50 bucks worth of products. The worker doesn't care though because they aren't getting paid enough to manage their life....they may actually be daydreaming about creating a great work of poetry, or a fictional narrative about crayons loving in space, but alas, we will never know. The sad thing is that walmart has done the self checkout for the same reason the person above cuts those jobs. ManBoyChef fucked around with this message at 15:05 on Apr 3, 2023 |
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syntaxfunction posted:I'm poor and write poetry. Here's a sample. Ngl. This is lit as gently caress. Might get it tattooed on my inner thigh so when someone goes down they get a little example of the humanity im into.
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I went to school for art and at the grad level it was: 1. people like me who are not rich who thought about teaching 2. rich people’s weird sheltered adult offspring whose parents were willing to pay rent and tuition to get them out of the house for another couple years in a way that was blandly socially acceptable 3. foreign students hoping to stay in the us for a couple more years 4. women in their late twenties hoping to marry money who realized they couldn’t compete with 20 year olds anymore the only people with any interest in the subject matter were potential future teachers and that’s because you were planning out your lesson plan’s because that is the source of your future income everyone else was in a mating frenzy you know how vulcans are emotionless but every seven years they return to their home planet to get in fistfights and breed? imagine a really nerdy version of that with actual people most of whom were really unattractive
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ManBoyChef posted:Its this. Humanity is a precious jewel posessed by those that struggle or have faced an adversity that is not governed by which tie to wear while you lay off 1000s of workers in order to increase shareholder value .001% don't worry the tech elite have taken care of that with AI. So now all the proles don't have to be bothered with pesky thoughts about art or philosophy, and can instead focus on increasing their productivity by 1.3% so they don't starve to death
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Man, rich people used to at least patronize the arts, commission paintings and sculptures and poo poo. And it's not like rich people were nicer in Renaissance Italy, it was the Medicis and Borgias and other fuckers who were constantly poisoning each other and throwing orgies in the Vatican. But back then they sponsored the likes of Michelangelo and Raphael and other Ninja Turtles. Nowadays they throw their fortunes at Ben loving Shapiro to make whiny-voiced internet videos.
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dk2m posted:Back in the day, if you were some rich aristocrat fuckoo, you'd spend your days writing poetry and philsophy, and boasting about living a leisurely life where you can spend your time on higher pursuits. but now, our rich people dont do poo poo like that, they post sigma grind-set videos on instagram and spend their time trying to make even more money Asterite34 posted:Man, rich people used to at least patronize the arts, commission paintings and sculptures and poo poo. And it's not like rich people were nicer in Renaissance Italy, it was the Medicis and Borgias and other fuckers who were constantly poisoning each other and throwing orgies in the Vatican. But back then they sponsored the likes of Michelangelo and Raphael and other Ninja Turtles. Nowadays they throw their fortunes at Ben loving Shapiro to make whiny-voiced internet videos.
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Asterite34 posted:Man, rich people used to at least patronize the arts, commission paintings and sculptures and poo poo. And it's not like rich people were nicer in Renaissance Italy, it was the Medicis and Borgias and other fuckers who were constantly poisoning each other and throwing orgies in the Vatican. But back then they sponsored the likes of Michelangelo and Raphael and other Ninja Turtles. Nowadays they throw their fortunes at Ben loving Shapiro to make whiny-voiced internet videos. Dude, Ben Shapiro is making art....he is a piss artist. He is just literally spraying piss out of his mouth constantly.
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They ran out of pleasing word combinations and they're not smart enough to invent more. The number of available, traditional-pattern but new-to-poetry phrases has been destroyed by all those 18th-19th century fops churning them out; only poo poo is left. They could try and transition to modern language and the new slang, but they're always beaten there by hip hop.
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On banks of the river of money I counted my cash on a spreadsheet Excell In this midnight so deep I rested so deep Milk and Honey Thinking of gold at home my mountain of money
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