We Are All Post-It Notes

On Our Tendencies to Classify/to be Classified

The next Writer's Digest will have an article on "Boomer Literature".

How ridiculous can that be!??? as if people can be isolated as a group from their adjacent generations!

It is a psychological/social dilemma that we are all guilty of- trying to neatly classify something or someone.

Concerning poets, they are classified by the first poem that makes contact. Like having a post-it note stuck on one's forehead, with said classification.

Now, we here at AP know better, having entered diverse contests, writing in diverse styles and on endless topics, and can stand head and shoulders above such textbook nonsense...

However, if you've settled into or are endeavoring to perfect one particular style or topic, say sonnets or the loss of a loved one, then it will not bother you.

If, on the other hand, you are like me, and write in endless styles and on endless topics, in endless voices and with a variety of emotions, then you may thumb your literary noses at such shallow tosh as you delve into the eternal aspects of life that know no generational boundaries...