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I never knew you had such esteem for Garfunkel, Isabella...

I'm no "scholar," either.....but I'm a "scholar of life," so to speak.

Dictionary definitions definitely have their place---but connotations within definitions are important, too.

Diverse or typical? Some days I just don't know...

I don't find that it matters, really.

Everybody is typical in some respect.

Everybody is diverse in some respect.

You are your own person.

If you're diverse, the same standards apply to you as if you are typical.


Saying all this: I have the same dilemma as well....

More than anything it's pedantry on my end I suppose. Having an actual verifiable answer.

Ugh, politics I hate when my mom has that on the radio in the car. And that is all I will say on the matter, because I really don't do political debates.

Still coming to terms with the fact that not only is it possible, but it's actually quite probable that I won't ever be able to work, and may or may not ever be able to live on my own. But the thing is, if that is what ends up happening, what do I do with my life, besides just exist because for some reason, even though no one wants to have to deal with me personally, they don't think it's acceptable that I just die. I'd always thought I'd be living on my own one day, not being a burden to anyone but myself, and even if that wasn't possible, working, and in doing so, providing some sort of service that people value enough to pay me to. But if I can't support myself and I can't do anything that's in any way beneficial to society or to any individual, what's the point? Volunteer work is also quite probably out of the question since both my parents work full-time, I can't drive myself, and there isn't a bus stop or anything within reasonable walking distance of our house. So here I sit just being completely useless.

poetic prose or poetry
Poetry (the term derives from a variant of the Greek term, poiesis, "making") is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language—such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre—to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, the prosaic ostensible meaning.

Poetry uses forms and conventions to suggest differential interpretation to words, or to evoke emotive responses. Devices such as assonance, alliteration, onomatopoeia and rhythm are sometimes used to achieve musical or incantatory effects. The use of ambiguity, symbolism, irony and other stylistic elements of poetic diction often leaves a poem open to multiple interpretations. Similarly figures of speech such as metaphor, simile and metonymy create a resonance between otherwise disparate images—a layering of meanings, forming connections previously not perceived. Kindred forms of resonance may exist, between individual verses, in their patterns of rhyme or rhythm.
Or maybe ?
Technically, free verse has been described as 'spaced prose', a mosaic of verse and prose experience.
> free it is then, know your complots and shake