Doghead's Cosmic Bar
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So...what's an illegitimate poetic technique? *flicks tongue*
Plagiarism?
Unless it's research. Or allusion. Or it's really cool and fits in well. Or your borrowing content to make a fan site or a bot (which is not poetry per se, but has a poetic license all the same) .
Maybe mediocre sentimentality is a greater poetic sin that taking another's work as your own. To be honest and original but sappy and boring, must be worse than to steal great thoughts. If this were not so, great poetry would be about how people like their cats and how small children are cute, and each one would be an original though oh how one's cat or child is the first to be so admired.
- When 'Omer smote 'is bloomin' lyre,
He'd 'eard men sing by land an' sea;
An' what he thought 'e might require,
'E went an' took--the same as me.
- Rudyard Kipling
I think Kipling stole that from Xena though. Or me. Maybe I told him to write that, but without the silly accent.
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*pushes Lady Orchid out of her way... catches and grabs those beverages and puts them save on a table... wipes bot sweat of her forehead... *Pjuhh*
And get ready for Cinco De Mayo! Tacos, hot and spicy chips and all the guacamole you can down...oh and a lot of Corona – Dos XX or Tecate ..Now where is the salt and lime.
Jose Cuervo!!
He was a friend of mine!
I used to drink him with a little salt and lime!
So what if it doesn't rhyme.
He was a friend of mine!
I used to drink him with a little salt and lime!
So what if it doesn't rhyme.
Plagiarism?
Unless it's research. Or allusion. Or it's really cool and fits in well. Or your borrowing content to make a fan site or a bot (which is not poetry per se, but has a poetic license all the same) .
Maybe mediocre sentimentality is a greater poetic sin that taking another's work as your own. To be honest and original but sappy and boring, must be worse than to steal great thoughts. If this were not so, great poetry would be about how people like their cats and how small children are cute, and each one would be an original though oh how one's cat or child is the first to be so admired.
- When 'Omer smote 'is bloomin' lyre,
He'd 'eard men sing by land an' sea;
An' what he thought 'e might require,
'E went an' took--the same as me.
- Rudyard Kipling
I think Kipling stole that from Xena though. Or me. Maybe I told him to write that, but without the silly accent.
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