Being Weird

I found today's class extremely entertaining and mainly helpful to my development as a poet. The most interesting exercise was comparing one random question to a random answer and observing the outcome. I feel like when I write poetry, I try too hard to make "sense" of the language to create a storyline. However, as Scott pointed out the more absurd sentences often may not make sense to an individual, because every single person is able to interpret each word in each sentence very differently. More importantly, I feel that if I implement what I learned today into class, my poems would not have so much explanation but rather allow the reader to offer his/her own interpretation. I believe that this has also enhanced the definition of magic from not just inside the poem but the effect it takes on the people who read it.