Hard Core

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    Hard Core

     Hard Core


    Quarters always drop out of my pants.
    My left pocket has a hole in it
    but I never fix it or replace my pants.
    I'm sure it would cost more to fix than to replace,
    so I hope the quarters drop where
    they'll be found and most appreciated.

    As a poet I seek neither fame nor fortune.
    If I found both they would take time away
    from writing hard core poetry.
    A good poet has a way with words
    but tempers his words for the sake of an audience.
    A great poet has no audience;
    he has no humility and writes with no fear
    of rejection or critique or profit or publication,
    and this is what I call hard core.
    If you get naked and stare death in the face
    with a clenched fist and say, Take me anytime, motherfucker,
    then you are ready to write great poetry.

    This is a no bullshit art form.
    This is where the sword meets the stone.
    Come and get me, motherfucker,
    and take my words to hell.

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    calijya commented on Hard Core

    10-18-2009

    this one really hit me. i'm sure u know by now that i write very agressively, and i pour all of my emotions out in my poetry. i sometimes ask myself whether or not that is ok, if i should soften my words for the sake of other people. u just reassured me that i shouldn't. thx.
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    Musicmynded1 commented on Hard Core

    10-08-2009

    This is the poem that I read from you that makes me push the "Accept Friend" button on my home page,,, it was almost the Dear President but I knew that you had to have better than even that, and sure enough,,,, after all, I knew there had to be something "like this" that appealed to you from my poems to wanna be ma friend (there i go using that F-word again).
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    HarverTomsson commented on Hard Core

    10-05-2009

    I'm not sure how the erosion of decency in speech contributes to great poetry, except in the rare occasion that civility is cowardice or ineffectual. But I'm a fan of your balls out willing to express yourself irrespective of societal consequence. Sometimes all a poet ends up saying is, "Right now, I feel like offending you." Nevermind that we are mostly strangers, after all.
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    MSVanallen commented on Hard Core

    10-05-2009

    Amen!! If we write for the sake of wht we think others want...we are entertainers, not poets. Tell 'em. brotha!! MSV
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    knight4696 commented on Hard Core

    09-30-2009

    Damn! You hit this one right on the head and slammed it out of the park! Great subject matter - I like your style Poetography. Nice Work!
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    knight4696

    09/30/2009

    I can see why - I felt it as well.

    Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.

    Plato (BC 427-BC 347) Greek philosopher.

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