zodiac29 Feb 2004

All I'm saying is that people are going to think that. EVERYONE is. EVERY SINGLE PERSON ON THE WHOLE PLANET is going to think of the movie. Whatever you meant, that will be the result.

Think of it this way: say I wrote a poem entitled "I'm a Racist Pedophile". Even if the poem itself wasn't about me being a racist pedophile, people would probably think that about me, and I'd be more than a little responsible for that.

More accurately for your situation, say I wrote a poem called "I Live in The Matrix" - now what are the odds that I invented a metaphor for the empowered institution I'm required to subscribe to by the fact of my living on earth, and just happened to call that institution 'The Matrix' without having given any regard to the popular trilogy starring Keanu Reeves? They're pretty long; people are going to think I'm referring to the movie, which would be crap. Change it. CHANGE IT CHANGE IT CHANGE IT. And it's not like I'm criticizing an image you spent hours inventing yourself (or, incidentally, one which has anything really to do with the imagery of your poem,) so why defend it? Just think of almost any other adjective than vanilla and attach it to almost any other adjective than sky and you'll be alright.