{"sf1_id":1123754,"sf2_id":"pnGBDlKm","title":"Degeneracy \u0026 Desk Job","author":"charles_they","words":473,"posted_at":"2017-01-14T03:22:11.000Z","tags":["'yeen","Blowjob","Bunny","Gay","Hare","Hyena","Limerick","M/M","Male","Male/Male","Office","Oral","Poem","Poetry","Public","Rabbit","Yeen","desk","free verse","hidden"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1123754-degeneracy-desk-job","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/pnGBDlKm","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/82/95/8295e0a6-d423-4c7c-908b-46fb09a3b867","description":"A load of rambling, a free verse on free verses, and a limerick about an odd kind of desk job.","content":"### Preamble\n\nThere's a saying of which I'm fond: \"Don't ick someone's yum.\" The nonsexual equivalent of \"No kinkshaming,\" it means to try not to demean things that others find enjoyable because you don't enjoy it. I preface what I'm writing here, as I don't intend to belittle free verse poetry.\n\nFree verse poetry can be impactful. Bud Osborn's \"raise shit\" is an incredibly powerful piece on gentrification and the violence of displacement, and this is owed in part to the fact that there isn't any structure that must be obeyed (although most free verse poems tend to have patterns).\u0026nbsp;\n\nThere lies a danger, however, in assuming that free verse poetry is written to be profound, while structured poetry is written to be appealing. When it comes to insight and appeal, free verse and structured poetry can be written for both, either, or neither reason.\u0026nbsp;\n\nI personally prefer structure over free verse as it comes more naturally for me. Moreover, filling meter with filth and positively pornographic material is fun, and it's not something I've often seen done.\u0026nbsp;\n\nIf there's anything to be drawn from the poem below, it's that no one gets to decide that what you've written isn't poetry.\n\n* * *\n\n### Degeneracy\n\nWhen you don't give structure to a poem,\u0026nbsp;\n\nit seems as though you've just taken\u0026nbsp;\n\nwhat was written before\u0026nbsp;\n\nand rearranged it.\u0026nbsp;\n\nWhat was one prose,\u0026nbsp;\n\nfull of capitalization,\u0026nbsp;\n\npunctuation,\n\norder,\u0026nbsp;\n\nand lines,\u0026nbsp;\n\nhas now become poetry—or has it?\u0026nbsp;\n\nIf all you've done is change the way it's read,\u0026nbsp;\n\nwell, then clearly you've achieved poetic effect.\u0026nbsp;\n\nAnd, it's true:\u0026nbsp;\n\nrhythm can be invoked through cutting and interrupting;\u0026nbsp;\n\nbut if the words are now validated by your contrarian perception,\u0026nbsp;\n\nwho has become the elite?\u0026nbsp;\n\nHas your lack of capitalization,\u0026nbsp;\n\npunctuation,\u0026nbsp;\n\norder,\u0026nbsp;\n\nand lines\u0026nbsp;\n\ntruly freed the writer?\u0026nbsp;\n\nOr has it become its own rigid structure,\u0026nbsp;\n\nwhere there is no capitalization,\u0026nbsp;\n\nlittle punctuation,\u0026nbsp;\n\nstrict order,\u0026nbsp;\n\nand many lines?\n\n* * *\n\nAnd now, back to our regularly scheduled filth.\u0026nbsp;\n\n* * *\n\n### Desk Job\n\nA sheltered and spotted young 'yeen /\n\nWas keen to break into the scene /\n\nSo when a rabbit named Rob /\n\nOffered him a desk job /\n\nHe missed the meaning obscene /\n\nIt came as quite a surprise /\n\nTo be told that he needed no ties /\n\nSo stripped and below /\n\nAn attended bureau /\n\nHe found himself 'twixt a man's thighs /\n\nExcited and somewhat afraid /\n\nThe 'yeen was intrigued and obeyed /\n\nThey'd come in his muzzle /\n\n(Which he'd gladly guzzle) /\n\nThen the tables the workers would trade /\n\nWhen Rob asked him later to stay /\n\nAnd assured overtime he would pay /\n\nBack flat on the table /\n\nThe 'yeen was unable /\n\nTo stay still as Rob rutted away.\n\n-Charles Michael Averin","series":{"name":"Old/Archive","previous":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1122712-an-ode-to-madness-leather.json","next":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1125436-vanity-large.json"}}