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Moving Forward In Reverse (For Ann) (Free verse) by wilco

How long ago did you fall out of love? How long since he's mattered at all? Maybe there's something left inside, hidden among the pain and longing. You've given up but you won't give in. Taking the long road to go the short way. If there's any happy days left to find, you'll find them when you break your heart. Standing quietly on the platform, waiting for a train that never comes. Sometimes you just have to let go, babe. Face the things that you fear the most, if for no other reason than to see. Always talking to the ghosts of your past. A waterfall coming faster than before. We're all afraid of being forgotten, but you're afraid of being remembered. Always waiting in the wings and stalling. Bleeding yourself waiting for a push. But your room's getting smaller these days, and you're gonna have to see the world. Sometimes you just have to let go, babe. ...and don't worry...you'll be fine.

zodiac 14-Dec-05/6:19 PM
Eliminate anonymous votes somehow. No, I can't think of a way of doing it without chaos ensuing. Maybe an amnesty for all existing anonymous votes, just no more from here out. Of course, it would be hard to replace poems whose scores were already inflated, but it would happen eventually. The current Top 20, by way of example, is mostly legitimate - unlike most of the Top 20s since I've been here. The sad truth, though, is that anonymous votes are only legitimate, like, 5% of the time. Certainly it wouldn't be worth keeping the current anonymous voting system just to allow those genuine casual site visitors to vote, when a good portion of them might just go through the trouble of creating accounts to vote instead.

By the way, cool new vote readout on poem details!

The really best way to improve the Top 20 is to solicit totally subjective Top 20 lists from regular users and post them as "User Recommendations" or something such. That would fulfill all the purposes of the current top 20 except 'Winning Poemranker'.




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