<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341259" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To the Masters of Pretentious Verse</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Write what you will, <br>But your lines do not impress - <br>Your metaphors, hyperboles <br>And anaphoras do not contribute <br>Anything to my life <br>Or anyone else's - <br>You glorify madness <br>But have never seen <br>The frighteningly real <br>Darkness of the mind - <br>You're just buffoons <br>Proclaiming shallow <br>Prophecies that are <br>Dime a dozen, while <br>Your captive audience <br>Of comfortable middle class <br>Feels safe with the parameters <br>Of your fake madness <br>And artificial breath stops - </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Your verses won't be missed - <br>There is no life or joy <br>To be derived from anything <br>You pretend - just hollow <br>Amusement from language <br>Perturbation - nothing more. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Good luck, my friends, <br>You have nothing to teach me <br>About being alive <br>Or living poetry - </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For you, too, are dead <br>In all your self-importance <br>And hollow words. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br> November 12,2005</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Alexander+Shaumyan">Alexander Shaumyan</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341259" data-title="To the Masters of Pretentious Verse de Alexander Shaumyan" data-description="Write what you will, But your lines do not impress - Your metaphors, hyperboles And anaphoras do not contribute Anything to my life Or anyone else's - You glorify madness But have never seen The frighteningly real Darkness of the mind - ..."></div> </div> </div>

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