I'm ventilating here on this thread, so not everything is as logical and orderly, or even well-founded as I'd like.
It's just that when I started writing, I truly LIKED sonority and rhythm and rhyme. Meter was just super when it was well done. But no one wanted that. So I tried free verse. Everywhere, everything was free verse. In ever-increasing waves, thick on the ground, free verse. Even David Lehman gave up form and started writing somehat inferior free verse. More free verse. Indistinguishable free verse. Fungible free verse. That was the final straw: everyone was writing the same damn five poems! And not much of it was worth hearing or reading a second time. (Here and there, a little bit, maybe.)
I quit.
Maybe I'm not good at what I want to do, but I quit doing the lemming thing.
I know this is old news and I know you're right, Maryann. I will be quiet now, maybe.
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