Fucked Up, a la Rimbaud

So let me ask you this, who are the most dangerous poets.

Who are really mad, bad, and dangerous to know.

Lord Byron obviously — by right of applied aphorism.

Rimbaud and I guess Verlaine too

That dickhead Ezra Pound, but being a fascist gives crazy a bad name, so I hate to admit it.

I think also Shelley, after all he called for revolution, was Byron’s friend, married Mary Shelley the author of Frankenstein, and was probably killed in a messed up way

Charles Baudelaire sure

but really at this point we are getting into the poets who are dangerous because they will get you to do drugs with them.

The interesting poets are the ones who get you to join revolutions, commit crimes (other than drug related) and risk your life in active fashions, not sitting around in dreary surroundings drinking too much.

Also, a mad bad and dangerous poet to know should also be someone who is a good poet. Just because some guy robs a bank and shoots the sheriff minutes after writing a limerick about a girl from Nantucket on the bathroom stall wall does not really put them in the running here.

The obvious being stated as the obvious often must be, another applicant springs to mind Guillaume Apollinaire

Which for no other reason but that we can makes me link to our one small article on him

But those are the few that come to my mind, who else belongs in this exclusive club?

This article was written by IG Agent 18, the author of The Mixtape of Taliesin

Who also said the following

It is well-known that poets are drawn from the classes where wealth is enough to allow people to not do any useful work and still spend all day writing and reading, not being possessed of any great fortune I hit on the expedience of crime.

I would commit crimes of various sorts, generally small, but enough that one could live for a few days on a few hours work and thereby give the rest of my time over to the muse.

in this article

And thus might be expected to know a little something on the matter.