So the anti-gun turds have been passing around a laughable “slam poem” from a mental midget from Houston. Cam Edwards of NRA News first plays the poem then gives his response. Its worth your time.
Of course in my personal opinion if somebody wants to do poetry they should really learn to play an instrument and put it to music. Poetry is boring, folk music is interesting and catchy!
William Blake’s The Tyger brought to music (and enjoyability) by Nate Spencer.
And for more original beat-style poetry:
See? MUCH better than Maya Angelou reading total gibberish while a bunch of hippies nod like they have a fucking clue of what she’s ranting about.
Yeah, “slam” poetry? Stupid.
Regular Poetry is stupid enugh. Hipster Douchebags thinking they’re putting somebody in their place by tossing our random rhymes and semi-intelligible points, is pretty lame.
There’s no point in even trying to write poetry in the post-Kipling world.
I would say you present a fair argument.