Our poet

I have mentioned J previously, our "by-poler" student.  J gave me a packet of poems he had written.  His poems consist of dense paragraphs on topics of love, the last days, and despair.  They are almost unreadable because of the lack of structure.  He asks how I like them and says he wonders if he should self-publish.

I have tried to encourage him to use the word processor to write the poetry in lines--and to use spell check.  He has difficulty telling where a line should start and end.

We are doing a class newsletter so I thought it would please him to publish one of his poems.  Maybe we could find one that was a bit more understandable than the others.  He turned that idea down quickly saying he didn't want anyone to steal his work!