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

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

make her the spokesperson for the fucking NEA!

this woman is brilliant. there's no denying it.

if trolling can be raised to an artform, she's not even like vermeer or something. she's on some next level kandinsky shit while everyone else is looking at it going 'those are just lines and colors'!

she clearly feeds on attention, and eyebrow hair

I do have to admit I am impressed.

how many comments did the Wasteland get in 24 hours?

I think the first response was from Pound going "tl; dr, LOL"

Why do you figure she's trolling? She sounds earnest enough. Just amazingly poor judgment.

All that trolling requires is that you are fishing for responses; your earnestness about the subject matter is immaterial. The big difference is that most people who troll either do so on subjects they don't care about or on positions they don't actually hold; AP has made an artform out of expressing a genuine, honest opinion in the most self-regarding, attention-seeking manner possible.

she has amassed so much troll capital by this point

happy national poetry month, bitches

i love how proud she is of the "9 minutes" thing.

Fair enough, I guess I think of a troll as someone who knows s/he's a troll. I doubt that she believes she's trolling--she's teaching us about universal empathy.

I think she knows what she's doing when she responds to

you don't know that this isn't about you

with

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.

jeez I thought difficult listening hour's posts were a hilarious spoof of what would be said by someone as narcissistic and delusional as only the hating-est haters on this thread claim AP is

and then I clicked through and... there it was, her actual post

(though I was getting a bit worried about possible negative side-effects for dlh after channeling such a mindset for that long)

Defending Amanda Palmer has become an exciting challenge. I feel like a lawyer whose client keeps exposing himself in the witness box and threatening to kill the judge.

jeez I thought difficult listening hour's posts were a hilarious spoof of what would be said by someone as narcissistic and delusional as only the hating-est haters on this thread claim AP is

haha same here

jeez I thought difficult listening hour's posts were a hilarious spoof of what would be said by someone as narcissistic and delusional as only the hating-est haters on this thread claim AP is

SO DID I! aaahhhh

god people who respond to backlashes with "discussion! yes! twas the goal all along!" are the best

the idea where the goal of writing isn't to express something, but to provoke anything

The rhyminess of poetry is a discussion long overdue.

this discussion of whether or not I am an asshole, it would never have happened if I hadn't been an asshole. that's what great art is supposed to do.