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    people get their tongues in a twist
    over the most pitiful of
    things. you see, it's hard to make
    a mark on the world when those
    who've already scuffed it to high heaven
    haven't left a blank space
    for the rest of us;
    it's even harder still when we try
    to fight past traditionalists
    standing ground on
    rules and
    methods
    saying this is how it was done.

    and it makes me want to scream.

    rhyming takes time and i don't
    have the patience to sit
    back and wait for words'
    sounds to take place -

    and capitalization? ha!
    DON'T GET ME STARTED.
    letters are letters, no matter how
    tall - beginninG or Ending,
    mIddle or MoRe, it's too hard to keep track
    and i've stopped keeping score -

    and line breaks?
    they're set?
    what is this nonsense? are you telling me i can't br
    eak where i p
    lease? i thought i could do what i
    wished since these words come from
    me!

    but apparently not. art forever
    changes, but words should stay static, never moving
    on like the rest of the world. i've heard
    tidbits, you see, of some people
    out there - poetry now is a
    fad
    and a
    joke
    and it's
    no longer got meaning,
    but i beg to differ.

    people don't ask, but we poets
    have a reason, a method to the madness
    that makes sense in the end:

    rhyming takes time that not all
    of us have - and isn't emotion more important
    than form? if words can pour
    out like water from your
    tongue, then there's less time to think
    about just what you've written -
    more truth and less lies
    and most of all: more emotion.

    and letters are letters to me and to many -
    one doesn't hold meaning
    over the other just because it
    starts something. aren't endings
    just as important? aren't middles,
    isn't it all? writers can't risk picking favorite words and having
    the others desert them.
    favoritism holds no place on a keyboard.

    but what of line spaces? why 'mutilate' structures? because
    they're better off bent
    than shoved in a line. if a thought is
    whole then leave it alone, but if
    a thought's bro-
    ken, it needs to show. it takes
    s p  a    c   e  s
    and      tabs
    and
         enters upon
     enters
    to convey thoughts that are too
    s  c a tt ered to collect
    right away.

    this is a mess. but it's okay, it should be -
    it's the thoughts of a girl
    who's sick of resistance
    to words and to letters and to things better said.
    writers of all sorts should know
    that words are just words until we make
    them something -

    words are just sounds.
    appearances don't matter.
rantthisishorriblesorry
enter: rant

some people don't like the way some writers express themselves and i'm done with it. does it affect you personally? no. does it give you nightmares? no. does it make your life miserable? no. either get over it or ignore it. but at least remember that we're all just trying to express ourselves to the best of our ability, and it's hard to do when there's been so many hundreds of thousands of poets before us. we're just trying to make a mark. don't make a passion for so many people something they feel bad about. it's not worth it. 
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