What It's Like To Live In Emotional Agony

Get some help, or maybe Tylenol will be enough.

If not, consider suicide.

emotional agony is part of life...don't consider yourself unlucky for having it, we ALL have it, some have it a little worse and some suck it up a little better.

The forum title is "original writing".

I don't think that the original poster is suffering from "emotional agony" (whatever that is). I suspect he or she was either (1) given a writing assignment or (2) fancies him or herself as a writer. Certain internal evidence suggests a fairly young, possibly adolescent person. (They always feel 'emotional agonies' more, or at least they think they do).

Here's my effort:-

What It's Like To Be A Bed-Soiler

Hello, crap.
Brown crap.
Smelly, stinky, sticky crap.
You woke me this morning
And you'll soil my sheet tonight.
Why can't you stay inside me for once?
Please, crap.
Put a pause in the overpowering smell tonight.
Why won't you leave me alone?

You're right, this forum is "ORIGINAL WRITING". Maybe you ought to look up what that in fact means. It doesn't matter what you think the poster is, and it doens't matter if you like or dislike what this person has wriitten. This poem is a good release of energy. And who cares if the writer is an adolescent, that is not the point of this forum.

True dat.

[quote="stand up for pessimismIt doesn't matter what you think the poster is, and it doens't matter if you like or dislike what this person has wriitten. [/quote]

But it matters a lot to me. My thoughts, feelings and opinions matter to me as much as yours matter to you.

Anyway, somebody who quotes JFK cannot teach me anything.

I wouldn't attempt to teach you anything!! Perhaps you agree with conformity.........ohwell, suit yourself, but if you came on a2k to criticize people, I assure you, you won't last long!

How about you post some of your own work for open critique, contrex? It would only be fair.

... XD

I like this! Criticize me horribly! XD

But, yeah, I happen to be young. 15, to be exact. And I'm not actually in emotional agony. I'm quite happy. This was just an idea I had when I was writing a buncha junk last night.

No, im an emotional wreck, oh woe is me, mom won't let me stay up past bedtime! *hangs self*

Anywho. Let that guy have his opinion. That parody poem made me giggle.

Well, if you find the humour in it I guess I might aswell.........although really, I don't find it funny at all. And I think it was more of an adolescent behavior to rewrite your poem about bowel movements....seems rather immature.

ah well. Anything that makes me giggle is fine by me, though. Thanks for sorta kinda standing up for me, though I know it was mostly just that people shouldn't be so rude as that Kotex person or whatever.. lmao XD

OK, I re-read what I had written, and I suppose I could have been more constructive in my criticism. My main problem was that the emotional agony being described seemed more like eg toothache or a hangover. The writing itself seemed pretty good.

Oh, contrex.
Do I sense a major guilt trip here?

oh, psh, it doesnt matter.

But yea, it sounds more like physical pain than emotional pain, but thats because I was talking to a friend of mine when I came up with this idea, he explained that things had gotten so bad for him that the pain felt physical now. Poor boy needs a girlfriend (joking) anywho, it doesnt matter, just laugh at it and go to disney land. Ok? Ok. =)

But the world needs both fanciful poets and sarcastic critics; they balance each other. And, see, I was right about the adolescent origin of the emotional agony - it turns out to be nothing more serious than a case of blue balls!

I confess I do take your point about emotional pain becoming physical. Many years ago I had a traumatic situation to deal with involving a loved one's mental illness and then her death; I felt a real sudden pain in my guts every time I thought about the situation, or her, or the hospital. Kind of like the griping pain of an upset stomach or after too much unripe fruit.

Well, using youth as an insult is stupid, plenty of older people are... well, kind of stupid and whiney, and worse than a lot of younger people.

Anywho, I don't care. I liked that parody poem, after all.
Needs no explaination. It's all good.

Sorry to hear about your loss though =(

The parody poem was more immature then any poem by an adolescent. Even the initial thought of coming up with it was immature, and hey, whats wrong with being an adolescent? Were you not an adolescent once, or are you still? Let's drop the whole "you must be young so obviously your work has to suck". Poetry is not like that at all!

Rimbaud wrote most of his best poetry before he was 20. "A Season in Hell" was written at 19. Here is a link, for those who speak French: http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/rimbaud/rimb_sai.html

A quick Google search will turn up many English translations.

I love you guys. XD