nypoet2213 Oct 2006

here i'm guilty of planting my tongue in my cheek a bit too firmly, thought the waiting three days crack would be funny. judging by the level of humor, maybe i WAS drunk at the time. that said, i'd argue the seperate poem issue not quite as simple as that anyway. is the prologue to a chapter really its own chapter? is it really part of the chapter that follows? probably neither. part 4 has a prologue too, which is really its own thing, but not enough so to warrant waiting to give it its own entry. nonetheless, it's a different part. many poets preface different poems within a poem by using roman numerals to indicate that they're distinct and seperate from the other parts. in truth, though the prologue isn't really part of the main poem, i felt giving it its own entry would cause just as much confusion as not. part of my problem here is there's no flexibility of typesetting in this website. the prologue should be in italics before part 1's title, and wouldn't really belong anyplace else.

capture is actually catching the animal, subjugation is getting it to sit, roll over and play dead. good point about the "even when" parts. thanks for the comments.