Well, Quincy, you did start this off by asking--although I think your tongue was in your cheek--that we not write these things.
Permit me another of my hypotheses: Poems in these forms keep getting written because each form dredges up stuff out of the unconscious that the other forms don't.
Quite often, yes, it ends up being dreck. But if you believe that the way to have good ideas is to have a lot of ideas, you can't sit around and wait for the gods to descend. You have to keep fiddling, and a form is a way to fiddle.
Maryann
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