Not like this.

This is a perfect example of what kind of person I don't want to be, and what kind of setting I don't want to be in.

I realise that I describe myself as an artist more than anything else, and I love and dwell in culture. But not like this. Not this kind.

Seriously. It's just silly.

There's a place for these things, and it's not in public. These 'poetry jams' are not advancing the art, nor are they advancing the artists, if there should ever be any at those events.

Art is its most beautiful in its most private. Take away the latter, you diminish the former.


Afterthought: You might as well replace private with intimate.