Suspended's Poetry Apprenticeship

[luka]

gareth, your eyes twinkle like stars
you always had my heart
since that first moment, in geography class
when you lent me your eraser
your not ugly like grendel was
i like you loads

 

[sus]

Hmmm

 

[luka]

my video, massive adoring crowd round me
his video, all alone in the hallway, no mates

 

[Benny Bunter]

This seems logical but it is surprising how many people fail this first test.

 

[mixed_biscuits]

@sus you can see that Luka considers Wynn Owen to be a real threat. He's done the equivalent of retreating to his citadel, drawing up the portcullis and is now pouring as much boiling oil from the top as he can.

 

[sus]

"we have outsourced our creativity"—pretty terrible line too TBH

 

[luka]

not really, its a job. you write to a brief.

 

[mixed_biscuits]

my video, massive adoring crowd round me
his video, all alone in the hallway, no mates

It's called scholarship.

 

[luka]

a lonely occupation

 

[sus]

I've read plenty of poetry the problem is 99% is garbage and the remaining 1% is esoteric. So I need to look to theory for a better search-and-interpret function.

 

[mixed_biscuits]

@luka you can see how suspended is threatened by the real scholarship of translating from Old English, a term which he had hitherto thought only referred to the theme pub around the corner.

 

[sus]

@luka you can see how suspended is threatened by the real scholarship of translating from Old English, a term which he had hitherto thought only referred to the theme pub around the corner.

Literally anyone can do this in the year of our lord 2024

 

[sus]

I've done nice translations of French despite not knowing any French. It's not that hard with modern tech.

 

[sus]

Why are you awed by someone knowing a dialect lmao

 

[mixed_biscuits]

I've read plenty of poetry the problem is 99% is garbage and the remaining 1% is esoteric. So I need to look to theory for a better search-and-interpret function.

Does reading music theory help if you're tone deaf? You gain a sense of artistry and difficulty in music through trying to make it oneself.

 

[sus]

Why is nobody able to make any actual points about why poetry matters or what it's up to or why one person's work is rubbish or not

 

[luka]

you need to have a flair for language like me

 

[sus]

It's tremendously depressing. Poetry was a mistake. My apprenticeship was a mistake. This board was a mistake. My conception was a mistake, an inhibition of animal energies.

 

[sus]

Does reading music theory help if you're tone deaf? You gain a sense of artistry and difficulty in music through trying to make it oneself.

Post your poems

 

[mixed_biscuits]

I've done nice translations of French despite not knowing any French. It's not that hard with modern tech.

You didn't do any translation at all when you did that, and nor did the machine.