April 3, 2013

  • DISCLAIMER

    I'm going to start posting a monthly disclaimer on my blog.

    Disclaimer: almost none of my poems are straight-up about my life; I rarely write holistically autobiographical poems. To write, I take an emotion or feeling that I’ve experienced (or that a friend has experienced), isolate it, exaggerate it to the nth degree, and then write a song about it. Tapping into an intense emotional experience and writing a song about that particular emotion is one of the ways my muse operates....my muse is very finicky about inspiration and I just go with what I’m given. I don't write songs about my life, I write songs about the emotions, which usually end up sounding similar to my life in some way because all emotions at the heart are the same. All love songs sound the same...all break up songs sound the same. (See end.)
         Details will sometimes be taken from my real life, but I will also change details without hesitation to go with the flow of the song. The feelings in my song are all emotionally true, and I only write about what I (or a friend) has experienced, but that definitely does not mean it is true in real life, i.e. that each poem happened that same way in my life. I cannot emphasize enough that I rarely write autobiographical poems. If you read my blog, you'll realize half of my songs or more deal with subjects like death, suicide, love affairs, being cheated on, etc---obviously not autobiographical! And ultimately—all love songs and all break-up songs all end up sounding similar, which is why every love song on the radio can seem to apply to your life even though you know Adele and Taylor Swift and Jason Derulo all have very different lives than you! So if you think this is about you…stop thinking so highly of yourself. It’s not.  ;)    And basically the only poems that I will write in a straight-up, completely uncensored, totally viscerally honest soul-tapping way are about people who are no longer in my life. If you're my friend and find something I've written offensive or seemingly pointed to you, it's not!  : )  I might write about the feelings, but I'm not going to post unedited uncensored blunt poetry about people I care about in my life. So no worries.  : p