Tintagiles9 Oct 2002

You apparently think that you're doing me a compliment by comparing my intellect to yours, which is an incredibly arrogant way of doing things. You are so insufferable that I am beginning to believe that you must be a joke played on us by one of the regulars here. You show up and insult everyone's poetry; when your own is criticised, you try to explain it by saying that it is beyond the masses' intellects and talk about what it is; your best answer to someone saying that this poem is shite is to answer, 'No it's not, it's good'; and you believe that young people can't appreciate Leonard Cohen. Ballocks. You inform us that you spit in the face of convention, but I'm afraid I must tell you that this is rather cliched; a great number of rather bad goth poets have used the same sort of images to express the same sort of ideas. It is puerile to defend yourself by saying that we are not intelligent ennough to understand: that is the argument of the artist who has no other defence. Useful, is it not?