subtest.

if u noticed, i am on leave. haha. i.e. happiness setting in. soon to be disrupted by the madhouse events that will be saturday. but i'll take one day at a time.

so the day was spent between purchasing anime. (am big fan) and a soothing massage which in comparsion to what i had in bintan, was definitely way cheaper.

somewhere in the day, decided i would go to the subtext reading for the 1st time in my life. cy was slated to read.

reached there just on time, cy went up, did his thing, q and a, yak yak yak then next reader.

eric something.

mildly autistic guy who suddenly attained some form of enlightenment from watching some programme on the telly, deduced that he could write poetry and decided to print an indulgent 1st book with poetry that he had written within the space of 2 maybe 3 weeks.

man, give the genius a tiger.

hey, i know i'm supposed to be charitable, but poetry is poetry. and what is clearly not, is easily noticeable. i thought subtext would be more than poetry.com. what is the premise for letting the man read? yes, if he's autistic, he is a highly intelligent and very intriguing personality, capable of handling a highly interogative q and a session (which was very entertaining) but he cannot write poetry.

ok, i'll be nice. yet.

the next guy, another self-published, a impromptu thing, went up to read from his collection, (why are so many people turning to poetry like this?) and then this time, i have no excuse to feel guilty for thinking that the poetry was bad.

yes, prior to his reading, he said he didn't know the perimeters of poetry and just printed this. well thats not a f-ing excuse. go learn brother.

very bad. even yong shu hoong thought it was necessary to cut the pain short. hahah.

overall feeling? subtext rulez! haha. i like reading/hearing bad poetry once in a while, thats why i poetry-blog surf so much. (oops have been found out.)

oh, here's an example of what i find most "entertaining"

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listeningto: sixpence none the richer.
reading: the but anthology.

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