poemranker ::Replying

ReplyTo a comment on father Worked Nights by poetandknowit.

Christof12 Sep 2002

Was that my point? No, it wasn't. My point was, I can't pretend to be urban working class and a witness to domestic violence and then write about because I would be a fraud if I did. If you know about these, good for you, crack on. I'm lucky enough not to. So lay off my birds! And if you think there's some kind of special superiority inherent in your experience, then you're falling into all kinds of Romantic fallacies about the artist and suffering.