| Piece of Candy
You want to be a literary star and you think possibly the underground route is the way to go, let me steer you away from the dumbasses.
The underground artist and the avant-garde remind me of goth kids. Hanging out in their room, wearing all black, because they fear coming outside to the real world might entail at some point getting pounded into the ground. They do have a point, most people who are underground I would like to at the very least drop a drink on them and laugh about it.
Let’s be honest underground artist means person who is afraid of rejection and is fixated on what happened to them in 10th grade. Avant-garde means person trying very hard to do something very boring over and over and over again.
The self-described underground avant-garde writers seems to regularly be covered in the “don’t know what you’re doing and too scared of reality to fix it” scent. If you were above ground and not so avant-garde everyone would call you on the bullshit that you are. People, who face the world, will get called out regardless of how cool they think they are, look at the ancient tale of “The Emperor Has No Clothes,” or Courtney Love, or Whitney Houston. I think that is the fear of the underground, they know that there is nothing there, that’s why they don’t want anyone to see. Underground is not hardcore, hardcore people aren’t scared of rejection, didn’t go to high school and usually have less expensive tattoos.
“I’ve been underground for 20 years.” A confused bad artist.
Working at something for twenty years and no one knowing who you are shouldn’t be a point of pride; because it’s not prideful it’s pathetic. In poetryland people confuse the “never haves,” the “never was,” the “never will bes” with the “misunderstoods” there are few misunderstoods just as there are few geniuses. Twenty years on the scene and you’re still reading at opens and publishing your own chapbook doesn’t mean you are misunderstood it means you’re underground, which means you are bad. Why don’t you move on, you’re infecting the future with your failure.
If you want people to remember you when you die don’t follow the paths of the walking dead, there are smarter ways to do nothing and lots of them have health insurance. •
— the former editor —
Taste like candy, feel like Vicodin. |
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