A lark for me, either as a bird or a noun.
To get back to Norman's post, I'm still not sure what the term 'sexual deviance' is meant to encompass. I can't recall the last time I saw a poem about incest or pedophilia anywhere, let alone on the Sphere, so I'm assuming the definition is broader, but how broad?
My own take is that sex of whatever stripe, despite its attractions, is a red herring. I may not be sure how deviance is defined in this context, but I have a very clear personal sense of what a 'crappy' poem is, and that's the word that stuck out in the original comment, for me. Definitions vary, but bad writing is one of the few taboos everyone here would agree on; and however we as individuals respond to a bad poem, I don't think that should change very much, whether it has its knickers on or not.
Ed
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