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Proems: Prose Poetry

\Pro"em\, n. [L. prooemium, Gr. ?; ? before + ? way, course or strain of a song: cf. F. pro[`e]me.] Preface; introduction; preliminary observations; prelude.

If I have a mission in life it is to cross boundaries, tear down walls, subvert what is natural and destroy anything that regards itself as "right". These beatnik-style Ginsberg inspired rants are here to do just that: introduce prose-poetry as a thing in itself.

Proems are long, unkempt, ragged poems, or pieces of rhyming or lyrical prose. They are half-breeds, destined to remain trapped between one world and another, never sitting comfortably in either.