So, I had my workshop for my poetry today. It didn't go that bad. Everybody liked my poetry, found it to be very funny, which is what I was shooting for. The only real interesting part was that so many people tried to read so much into some of my poetry. For example here's one of my poems:
The Lesser Known Lady from Saturn
There once was a lady from Saturn,
Whose body was shaped nothing like a penis
The boys never gave her a turn,
So she tracked down that lady from Venus
And beat her ass all the way to Uranus.
Now, I think that pretty much anybody that reads that is going to take it at face value. I was being silly, just trying to have fun. Now, my classmates read more into that then was intended. My professor saw some kind of Freudian reference, and the rest of my class was making references to the book Men are From Mars, Women are From Venus. I've never read the book, and I don't know that you, my handful of faithful readers have either. Apparently I am the only person in my class that remembers the age old limerick that starts There once was a lady from Venus... As soon as I pointed that out, the light seemed to go off in everybodies head. Sorta sad really.
Anyways, the poetry is done for now, and I am on to bigger and, at least I hope, better things.
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In the last decade or so, I think I've only taken two or three things that you've actually said as being serious.
First of all, that limerick is not age old. Also, limericks, while once a very popular party game, are now nothing more than cheap jokes people with no personality pull out at bars and parties because they know nothing more interesting to say. Somehow you've managed to write an entire post about something that is only five lines long. I think you have too much time on your hands. Perhaps you should consider online role playing - at least there you can be sure that your inane ramblings are actually digested. At least if you did that you could honestly claim to have a "handful of faithful readers." Of course, even in that there is the possibility of indigestion - which will most likely be the case.
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