#anyway. go read a very crude messy raw poem today i beg you | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

infinityshigh · 2 years

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[taps mic] art doesn't have to be easy to love or to look at. it doesn't have to be dumbed down or comfortable or palatable for every audience. sometimes it needs to make you unsettled and uncomfortable! and this is good!

#i saw a post about rupi kaur “making poetry easy to read” and my blood boiled a little bit #poetry needs to be more accessible but it doesn't HAVE to be Easy. it has the right to exist in its own realm of contradictions #poetry can be crude and messy and uncomfortable and guess what. this is still poetry and you can't dumb it down for it to be accessible #i think what bothers me most lately is the fact that art is leaning so much towards the palatable in order not to be “cancelled” and #now everything is squeaky clean and neat and tidy and it sucks. i want to see the ugly the raw the uniqueness of your art!#if you are uncomfortable it means you were affectivated (hello cultural psy classes) and this is GOOD #anyway. go read a very crude messy raw poem today i beg you #personal thoughts

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