I showed my mom this poem and she just kept saying "What?" Then she said it's just a guy saying a bunch of shit and that she doesn't get it. Is it just an age gap thing or is this poem just stupid?
Wut?
>>9264433
That's stupid, son
The poem is just stupid, fucking millenial aesthete Tao Lin a shit
your mom was right OP. She probably thinks you're an edgy pleb now too
>>9264433
Oh look it's empty confessionalism! Contemporary poetry everyone!
>>9264433
this is a journal entry, not poetry
i'd keep reading the journal, though
>>9264600
so if it's just a journal entry, then what's with the stupid arbitrary line breaks?
>>9264586
this one
>>9264433
i think both. I like how the poem appeals to these sort of generic nostalgias and feelings. I feel like only a certain generation of the youth really *get* this poem, but it's the persisting emotion behind the tropes that gives it more universal value.
Don't quit your day job. Also is your mom hot?