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I'm Just a Person
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The memoir as
cankering ode to self
audacious is the conceit
which allows an author - anybody -
to have printed
the utter dizzying, dragging m-i-n-u-t-u-e
of a life lived grasping for metaphors
and the claptrap resultant in the mining of the mind.
The disease induced genre
a.k.a. "feel sorry for me"
because a loved one is dead
the "fight the good fight" narrative
inspiration spelled backwards is yawn
the woman down the street
she has a hangnail
and is actively preparing her memoir
will it be a bestseller?
of course, mindless readers
flock to any medical malady
so if you chip a tooth, get bad shingles,
brain seizures, bad breath or genital herpes -
you know what to do write, write - right.
Chris Roberts, American God
cankering ode to self
audacious is the conceit
which allows an author - anybody -
to have printed
the utter dizzying, dragging m-i-n-u-t-u-e
of a life lived grasping for metaphors
and the claptrap resultant in the mining of the mind.
The disease induced genre
a.k.a. "feel sorry for me"
because a loved one is dead
the "fight the good fight" narrative
inspiration spelled backwards is yawn
the woman down the street
she has a hangnail
and is actively preparing her memoir
will it be a bestseller?
of course, mindless readers
flock to any medical malady
so if you chip a tooth, get bad shingles,
brain seizures, bad breath or genital herpes -
you know what to do write, write - right.
Chris Roberts, American God
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Jun 14, 2016 01:04PM
it's not funny at all?
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+Angela Right? Is this an actual review, or a poetry experiment?
This is an autobiography. Not all of us like to dress up our lives in pinafores. We prefer what is. How you can compare breast cancer, losing your mother, growing up with an alcoholic parent, abandonment by a father and a bad case of C-dif with a hangnail? She was saying, contrary to her reputation, she wasn't "brave". I think you should take a hard look at who is conceited.
Why so much vitriol?
