Post-Modern Romantic Manifesto
Watch out, cynics and poets with no blood or bones. We will get you, unveiling how you have transformed poetry into a dull, rotten science. we will unveil what the common purpose of your art is to twist and turn to the sound of the inhumane machine. We will unveil how you eat cynicism to survive and kill the only human quality we possess over everything else: Love.
We the undersigned, have wowed to write and feel and be alive, and know that love must be retrieved from the deep darkness that it has fallen into. We live in New York City, a place where love has been arrested at sunrise, eternally. We live here and we work, and read, and study in the metric machine to destroy the cogs and wheels that have been ruling through its ghastly heart. We will take back the humanity that we have lost from you, the elitist writer, the man of technicalities and syntax, and we will fight against losing our humanity. We will uphold what others have fought for--what other poets were fighting for through their sword-poems.
We want to revive the notion of romantic poets, poets who defy postmodernism and view it as an attempt to pidgeon-hole the soul of man. we want everyone to enjoy poetry, from the leader of masses to the breadmaker. We want everyone to come sing with us, and for us to sing about being human and loving. We uphold Kurt Vonnegut's claim that the true purpose of human life is to love whoever is around to be loved. We uphold Dylan Thomas as we rage against the dying of what makes us human. We uphold Ginsberg as we fight against the humanistic starvation of the soul in our modern society. We will chant to Kenneth Koch, imitating a match, bursting into flame, or the water boiling...
This is not a passive movement. This is the boiling point--it speaks of urgency. Join us if you still think there is a light to keep alive in the wick of the human soul.
For us, the spark resides in writing about being human and about love, about the spirit and how it won't be buckled into submission. For you it may be dance, the thickness of paint or photographs. We want you to express the same feeling in your medium, no matter what it is. We encourage public displays of affection, we encourage the abhorement of cynicism.
this is what a post-modern romantic is.
We the undersigned, have wowed to write and feel and be alive, and know that love must be retrieved from the deep darkness that it has fallen into. We live in New York City, a place where love has been arrested at sunrise, eternally. We live here and we work, and read, and study in the metric machine to destroy the cogs and wheels that have been ruling through its ghastly heart. We will take back the humanity that we have lost from you, the elitist writer, the man of technicalities and syntax, and we will fight against losing our humanity. We will uphold what others have fought for--what other poets were fighting for through their sword-poems.
We want to revive the notion of romantic poets, poets who defy postmodernism and view it as an attempt to pidgeon-hole the soul of man. we want everyone to enjoy poetry, from the leader of masses to the breadmaker. We want everyone to come sing with us, and for us to sing about being human and loving. We uphold Kurt Vonnegut's claim that the true purpose of human life is to love whoever is around to be loved. We uphold Dylan Thomas as we rage against the dying of what makes us human. We uphold Ginsberg as we fight against the humanistic starvation of the soul in our modern society. We will chant to Kenneth Koch, imitating a match, bursting into flame, or the water boiling...
This is not a passive movement. This is the boiling point--it speaks of urgency. Join us if you still think there is a light to keep alive in the wick of the human soul.
For us, the spark resides in writing about being human and about love, about the spirit and how it won't be buckled into submission. For you it may be dance, the thickness of paint or photographs. We want you to express the same feeling in your medium, no matter what it is. We encourage public displays of affection, we encourage the abhorement of cynicism.
this is what a post-modern romantic is.
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