especially if you’re a poet.
It’s kind of like having a crush on a celebrity, except, chances are, if you’re part of the slam poetry community and you’re anywhere near social, you probably know your poet crush personally. Chances are, you’re probably friends with them.
It’s this weird juxtaposition of being star-struck while knowing from experience that they’re an every day average person, just like you. Well, maybe not so average. We’re poets, remember.
I keep dating poets, fucking poets. It makes poet-crushes even stranger, because then you know it could come to fruition, there’s a chance.
Bonus points if you’re at least halfway decent and know that there’s people out there with poet-crushes on you.
I was sitting in on a conversation just last night about the proper etiquette on dating a slam poet. (More importantly, dating a slam poet if you, yourself, are a slam poet.)
I always viewed poet crushes as the feeling one gets about a poet that transcends just liking their work, almost to the point of believing the poet in question understands the Truth and Gets It about the world.
Whereas having a crush on a person that happens to be a poet is a “regular” crush, but usually has something to do with having a poet crush on that person as well. One does not need to have a “regular” crush on a poet in order to maintain a poet crush.
Examples have been omitted because they, while may proving useful, are bound to also prove embarrassing.
See, to me, poem-crushes are the crushes on someone’s poetry; poet-crushes are poem-crushes plus regular crushes.
I think that means we agree except on word usage
