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Red Pill Poet's avatar

This poem was revised on APRIL 7, 2025.

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Red-Pilled ER Nurse's avatar

Oh dang!

That’s what I get for trying to type on my phone.

Yes poem is what I meant

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Red-Pilled ER Nurse's avatar

Red Pill Poet.

Thank you.

I do enjoy the way your observations cut unapologetically and incisively to a pressure point or an energetic crux!

I would like to hear one of your poems read aloud by you. Make sure I am not missing an important subtle inflection. Would you think about presenting a pure that way?

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Red Pill Poet's avatar

It never crossed my mind.

I like to entertain the fantasy that my poems are free of personal associations to me, or at least as much as possible, in the hope that every reader may bring as much of his or her experience(s) and voice to each poem, unencumbered by a certain reading, as if it were in any way definitive. In this sense, I subscribe to the notion of a tabula rasa.

Come to think of it, this may explain why my spacing is so elaborate. It's meant to offer detailed and specific reading instructions with regards to pacing, pauses and emphases ... my musical notation as it were.

To wit, the thought separations/groupings as indicated by blank lines and indents; the length of pause as indicated by extra spaces between words (2 space gap = short comma, 3 space gap = long comma, while 5 and 7 space gaps indicate proportionally longer pauses); italics where emphasis is mandatory, and multi-purpose em dashes doing all those em-dashy things.

Which is a long way of saying that if you follow all the cues I provide, I think you'd have to work pretty hard at getting it wrong.

Not only that, but my cover would be blown — which is not something I'd want, at least not yet, for the reasons I mentioned above.

That being said, feel free to link a file of yourself (or whomever) reading one of my poems right here in the comments, or email me an audio file. I could then provide you with feedback.

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Red-Pilled ER Nurse's avatar

I completely respect that. Of course each reader will give their own life to the words and spaces that are not words. Also to have an anonymity or detachment from interpretation is probably important ... to know your craft can take wing independent of you.

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Red Pill Poet's avatar

Thanks R-PERN!

Before I answer your question ... is "pure" supposed to be "poem"?

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Alison H.'s avatar

Well-said, and I appreciate the second part. The DEI (or more appropriately, DIE) agenda is another twisted scam to divide us, by generation as well as by "color," as I have learned to my dismay. Oh, and agism isn't even a thing to the younger set, who dismiss their elders.

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Red Pill Poet's avatar

Glad you liked it ... thanks!

"Oh, and agism isn't even a thing to the younger set, who dismiss their elders." — All by design, of course. After all, when the indoctrination features absurd and foolish notions, elders, as (theoretically) the repositories of wisdom, must/will be dismissed by the misled young.

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