Very Very Odd Genres

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Excrement Literature, which began as a Russian literary movement in the 1990's, also became an American genre with the publication of Toilet: The Novel.

Although the term Excrement Literature is wide embracing, it has been linked to Neo-Existentialism, which combines elements of Post-Modern and Existential thought, using the modern symbol of the bathroom and everything contained therein as an expression of modern life and the dying consciousness to break free from it.
Velvet whispers
Inaudible murmuring
Stifled secrets

Indigo shadows veil desperation
Obscuring desire

In a lucid azure dream
I found you

Under a sapphire sky.
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Well, it so happens that I was asked my permission to dedicate 2 whole pages to me in an upcoming book called The International Who's Who of Poetry with one of the pages being my poem and the other page being a biography of me. Woohoo! (Hopefully it's n
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I'd be interested to read more of your stuff, if you're willing to share.
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A Maiden
Sara Teasdale

Oh if I were the velvet rose
Upon the red rose vine,
I'd climb to touch his window
And make his casement fine.

And if I were the little bird
That twitters on the tree,
All day I'd si
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Holy butter.
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