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

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.

i really feel that an Amanda/Marissa collab is overdue

"I Never Her
She Never Him
What Gives, Today?
EMUUUUUUUUUUUU"

I feel like we're this close to AP saying that it is a good thing the bombing happened cuz now people are talking about poetry

or maybe AP could just sample MM without her permission. Then AP will get more than enough attention!

and i thought: this is amazing. when was the last time a thousand people argued about a stupid poem a specious comedy argument by someone named carl poemliker?

weird tweetcru was all over encouraging "why doesn't it rhyme" comments too.

xpost -- Read that as Carl Poemkiller

xp - read that as carl poemlicker - and thought of that one Aphex Twin video but with Amanda P rather than Mr. James

well that's tonight's nightmare taken care of

"Uhhhhhh....

Stanza."

brilliant trolling ap, A+

Maybe next year she can do a TED Talk about the negative reaction from this year's TED Talk.

i wish she'd misspelled the guy's name so that a bunch of people could call her out for misspelling the guy's name and then she could write about how it's fascinating how people reacted to her misspelling the guy's name, and what that says about art

"that ho was me" - amanda palmer

i just, you guys

Sometimes all you can do is roll your eyes and walk away.

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all you need to know really