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Serious question: How is this poetry? Isn't this just prose formatted in a weird way?
Prose can be poetry too. I don't get why people should always want to criticize poetry, or art, for not being "proper". Poetry is there to reach inside the heart and to make you feel something. Nothing less, nothing more.
It sure makes me feel something. I doubt the author wanted me to feel that way lol.
Isn't this just prose formatted in a weird way?
When you get down to it, isn't that all poetry really is? But really, I think this would technically fall under 'free verse' (poetry with no rules).
How is it not poetry?
Did you feel anything when you read it?
Baby shoes
For sale
Never worn
That formatting is the worst, cudos to the enormous blanks too, wtf.
Poetry is both the sound and the silence. Without the silence and the breaks, there can't be any poetry.
Sure, but this is not poetry spaces, it's just badly cut up text IMO.
You think it is done intentionally? Like some post modernist style?
Some phrases remained intact, while some were abruptly cut off.
Thank you captain obvious.