zodiac21 Mar 2004

The point is, I've written something like a thousand rhyming poems since high school. It's getting hard for me to find new rhymes or structures. My line breaks are arbitrary in that I try to make the rhyme come at an unexpected part of the sentence, almost never at the period or some tidy clause-end. But if I didn't have rhymes I would have no idea how to line-break. Really. I've tried, like in that dreadful 'Joe-Joe', but it feels like utter bullshit to put in breaks where there's no reason to. I respect a lot people who write good free verse (including some here), but I can't understand how they don't feel like flaming bullshit poseurs doing it.