Trouble with the Flarf

I get the feeling that flarf is for a special group of people; a group that I do not belong in. I can enjoy the absurd, the internet, and words...so you'd think I'd enjoy flarf. And sometimes I think it may just be the fact that I haven't been exposed to the right flarf, but it's difficult to find the energy to look further into flarf when we are told to read Annoying Diabetic Bitch for the second time.

I like dirty jokes, I like ranting (if you couldn't tell), and I like kinda saying 'fuck you world' too often.

I DO NOT like Sharon Mesmer's book of curse words and sassy flarf that reads like one of the biggest, loudest, most annoying FUCK YOUs to ever be. But what confuses me the most is whether or not that's the point...does she want us to be offended by the words of the internet? Does she want to take what makes us terrible and funny and offensive and throw it at us? Does she want us to hate this book? WHAT IS THE POINT?

I think it makes me feel a bit pissy if the point was to make us hate it. Because it worked, and everything about this book makes me not want it to work. I mean, urban dictionary is funny. Annoying Diabetic Bitch  is annoying. And watching Mesmer read the first poem, which the book is titled after, manages to grind my gears even more.

You annoying diabetic bitch.
You anorexic bulimic diabetic bitch.
You dumb annoying talentless diabetic bitch, eat some diabetes.
You and your bitch monster diabetic junkhead father,
and your diabetic cat, your pathetic geriatric diabetic cat that eats birds —
bitch birds —
you fuck-ass body monster, you're lulling me into a diabetic coma
like that annoying secretary from Ally McBeal,
you cold British diabetic bitch-dick.
Look — I've played a hooker, a diabetic inmate requiring hormones,
a divorced shit-ass son-of-a-bitch, a kitsch bitch, an idiot, and — oh fuck it,
all this diabetes is making me into a bitch.
Go eat your diabetes, bitch,
I have never seen someone so loud and moronic and annoying and diabetic.
The last thing I need to find out is that I am diabetic,
someone with six diabetic relatives who beat each other to death
with their own shoes.
Is there a chat room?  Because this is just fucking annoying.
Just take into account that I am a heartless bitch, Millicent.
I have a kick-ass diabetic section and I'll turn you into a diabetic.
I'm what's called a pre-emptive diabetes bitch.
Top model bitch, you do not want to be a diabetic in a
typepad-cum-hammer/peg situation
I can be extremely diabetic, and you can be only slightly diabetic.
So that's Queen Bitch to you bitch,
you're annoying like a fucking annoying
diabetic bitch.

And you read the comments on this video and it just makes you realize how she found such language and absurd, vulgar material to work with from this world the internet has created.

I believe that Sharon's work supports that idea that the medium is the message, and the fact is, while she's written a book, the original words are from the internet. And it says a lot about us as humans that these terrible ideas, terrible rants come from the place where we feel we can reveal ourselves the most while still remaining protected behind our screens. Sharon has taken the worst of ourselves and put it in a book, where Mary-Kate and Ashley want to rape people and there's plenty of references to dicks, asses, and vaginas using creative words, in order to paint ugliness on politics, which is already an ugly subject.

I hate it...and if that's the point, then good job Sharon.

Examples of comments:

Paul Merrill 8 years ago

Sharon Mesmer rules my freaking world. I love "Annoying Diabetic Bitch" so much, it makes my ass hurt.

annieduke04 6 years ago

Your diabetic cat eats birds...bitch birds...ROFL!!! You annoying diabetic bitch go eat some diabetes...ROFLMAO!!! God I love this stuff...it's so utterly ridiculous it's hilarious!!! FLARF RULES AND SHARON IS THE QUEEN!!!

I believe that Sharon's work supports that idea that the medium is the message, and the fact is, while she's written a book, the original words are from the internet. And it says a lot about us as humans that these terrible ideas, terrible rants come from the place where we feel we can reveal ourselves the most while still remaining protected behind our screens. Sharon has taken the worst of ourselves and put it in a book, where Mary-Kate and Ashley want to rape people and there's plenty of references to dicks, asses, and vaginas using creative words, in order to paint ugliness on politics, which is already an ugly subject.

I hate it...and if that's the point, then good job Sharon.