amanda palmer's open poem to jonathan chait (and other crimes)

What a bummer (i wrote all the songs)

carl poemliker • an hour ago −
This "poem" makes wonder what is down under..... amandas brain bc this "poem" definitely does NoT rhyme
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dying @ "carl poemliker"

descendent of edgar allan poemliker fyi

It wasn't me.

I'm mean, so I wanted to read that as 'carl pumlicker'.

Thing is, ALL of the bad press & criticism she gets for this feeds directly into her Artist-Fan Relationship and will be used in the future for sympathy/donations/etc. It's more or less the same thing as calling Sarah Palin stupid. The more you criticize, the more ammo you are giving her.

that said i can't help but wonder if any of her fans (or fans of her fans) have declared that max read needs to get laid. they do seem to disproportionately go after her female detractors. wonder why

no im feeling sort of snubbed actually :-(

maybe you should start referring to yourself as MAXINE read

any of the EMP ilxors going to take on AP?

I....will just say I was glad to be on the other coast.

oh wait, i guess it already happened? did i miss something in this thread or elsewhere?

can someone post the poem I'll be fucked if I load all 2000 messages and/or give her any web traffic

There once was a bomber from Nantucket...

ha

"you don’t know how to stop picking at your fingers.
you don’t know how little you’ve been paying attention until you look down at your legs again.
you don’t know how many times you can say you’re coming until they just stop believing you.
you don’t know how orgasmic the act of taking in a lungful of oxygen is until they hold your head under the water.
you don’t know how many vietnamese soft rolls to order.
you don’t know how convinced your parents were that having children would be, absolutely, without question, the correct thing to do.
you don’t know how precious your iphone battery time was until you’re hiding in the bottom of the boat.
you don’t know how to get away from your fucking parents."

http://www.avclub.com/articles/amanda-palmer-writes-a-poem-about-the-boston-marat,96802/

nb that is not the entire poem. you probably don't want to read the entire poem.

you can read the entire poem here should you so desire: http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/77087877.html

you don't know how much you'll regret reading the entire poem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TlBTPITo1I

that said i can't help but wonder if any of her fans (or fans of her fans) have declared that max read needs to get laid. they do seem to disproportionately go after her female detractors. wonder why

Wow. Like I knew her fans were dumb and evil, but still.

you don’t know how precious your iphone battery time was until you’re hiding in the bottom of the boat.

^^^^

is the line out of everything that makes me want to just yell WHAT THE FUCK

i'm sure the dude was counting down the hours until he couldn't follow his twitter feeds. seriously the most important concern.

She's gotta write a poem in the guestbook at the Anne Frank House that expresses sympathy for the Nazis to top this troll.

http://fivebyfivehundred.com/2013/04/22/poem-for-amanda-palmer/

If you listened to my music
You would not be so crazi
I'm sorry that it happened
That you became a Nazi

If the times for us were different
I would be your liebchen
So just remember what Anne sang
Don't stop beliebing

unreleased jeff mangum collab

http://fivebyfivehundred.com/2013/04/22/poem-for-amanda-palmer/

lol this just made me think of You're So Vain

Poem kinda reminded me of

http://www.louielouie.net/pix-2008/right-now-vid.jpg

God is killing moms and dogs haha wtf

fuckin god, chill out bro

But he just has to.

keep
calm
and
god
is
killing
mums
and
dogs

right now amanda palmer is probably writing another poem to express her feelings about the reaction to the other poem

right now she's probably making a scale model of the waco fertilizer plant out of neil gaiman's crystalline spunk run-off

oh i hate u for that

***please pay me $5***

holy fuck that response poem is concentrated

If i knew enough about this id write a limerick but my specialty remains death by alsatian ejaculate hi btw

It remains a great regret that neither imago nor uabiho have contributed to that thread btw

I heard the news today oh boy

kinda feel like if she didn't exist ilx would have to build her. so, really, you should be sending her gift baskets and thank-you cards.

Maybe you should write a poem for the victims instead, Amanda!

No, on second thought, please don't.

tbh i'm waiting for her to compare herself to the victims (or worse) for suffering the sting of unappreciative internet comments

'today my heart was bombed'

as of posting this, there are 1,947 comments on a poem that took me – no exaggeration – about 9 minutes to write. many of the comments have been confused, many of them understanding, many of them angry.

this is the best thing that art can do – any art, good art, bad art, 9-minute art and 9-year art….reveal things.

i could have titled “a poem for dzhokhar” a million things. i could have called it “the past 48 hours”. or “everything in my brain right now”.
i didn’t. a lot of the poem got misinterpreted.

then a remarkable thing happened.

the people who hated the poem started writing THEIR OWN POEMS, sometimes in sloppy haiku form, sometimes in limerick form, sometimes copying the stream-of-consciousness format of the poem i had posted.

meanwhile a lot of other people were yelling that IT WASN’T EVEN A POEM, BECAUSE IT DIDN’T RHYME.

and another lot of people explained that poems don’t have to rhyme to be poems.

there were hundreds of comments back and forth and back and forth….arguing about what makes a poem, and about what poetry is and isn’t allowed to be and do, and it got very heated.

and my supporters starting linking me to poems they had written about the event, and i shared them on twitter.

and then: someone told me it was national poetry month.

and i thought: this is amazing. when was the last time a thousand people argued about a stupid poem?

or shared so many poems about something bad that had happened?

not any time recently, that i can remember.

happy national poetry month.
love,
AFP
http://i831.photobucket.com/albums/zz233/8ftmusic/blog04232013/Photoon4-22-13at1114PM3_zps0d440d4d.jpg

Amanda, your thoughts on empathy resonate so deeply with me.