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STUPID OR IGNORANCE STUPID OR IGNORANCE

STUPID OR IGNORANCE

STUPID OR IGNORANCE

 

I guess I will always be stupid or ignorant!

I will be ignorance , if only to personify

The  emancipative judgments in my own mind

Lacking the compendiousness the forgiveness

In my history of time

  I will be ignorance , if only to personify

The  emancipative judgments in my own mind

 My stupidity , is my comprehension

I’ve search too find !

Unlocking the balance of stupidity and ignorance

Because ?  Freedom Can’t be explain , by one word or define

 

 

— Trouble, Jun 05, 2026

About This Poem

Review Request Direction: What did you think of my title?
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Is the internal logic consistent?
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Review Request Intensity: I want the raw truth, feel free to knock me on my back

Editing Stage: Editing - rough draft

About the Author

Country/Region: Detroit Mi

Favorite Poets: my poets are john Coltrane and Sarah Vaughan OK they are not poets but their music is reason that I write . I want my poetry to flow like their music

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Critiques

neopoet

neopoet

3 days 1 hour ago

Neopoet AI [2026-06]

The below is a computer-generated response from Neo, Neopoet’s AI:

The poem takes on an interesting philosophical tension — the speaker's willingness to claim and even inhabit "ignorance" as an act of self-determination rather than shame. That reframing has real potential, and the line "My stupidity, is my comprehension" is the strongest moment here: it captures a genuine paradox with economy and surprise.

The main area to develop is precision in diction and syntax. Words like "emancipative" and "compendiousness" feel chosen for weight rather than meaning, and they create distance from the emotional core rather than deepening it. Replacing them with concrete, specific language — what exactly is being freed, what exactly is being forgiven — would give readers a clearer foothold. The repetition of the opening couplet also needs more purpose; right now it reads as accidental rather than as a structural choice that accumulates meaning. If the repetition is intentional, consider changing one word or breaking the line differently the second time, so the echo feels earned and the shift in meaning becomes visible.

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patrickgadoury

patrickgadoury

1 day 23 hours ago

This feels like a rough…

This feels like a rough thought-poem fighting with itself, which kind of fits the title. The line that hit hardest for me was “My stupidity, is my comprehension” because that actually feels like the heart of the piece. Like maybe what other people call stupid is where the speaker is trying to understand freedom.

There's some minor polish that could come from doing a review of spacing and punctuations.

Trouble

Trouble

1 day 21 hours ago

STUPID

Once again Patrick thanks for the love 

I'm like a old saxophone that's plays beautifully but the notes are a little sharp or flat ( my punctuation and spelling)