Innocence is overrated. And yet, if you think your life's ruined without it, you still have it.

- oval ling? - Why is Pollack in quotes? or Darfur, for that matter? - By your second stanza you seem to be against paying them attention dead simply because no one paid attention to them alive. Sorry, but that's silly. - The rest comes off as racist without any real sensitivity or focus on the issues. Whatever you respond to this, my answer is it's not racist the way you think I think it's racist. PS-Don't try to suggest lines like "Africa’s not economically viable" are spin or less-than-true by coupling them with actual lies and spin. I don't know what you could possibly have intended by that - or by any of this, for that matter.

"built" instead of "build". Line 3 should be past-tense. There should be a comma between "the black stick" and "the hollow stone".

Is there any consensus about the psychology of alien abduction? Prior research has yielded a few insights, some of which are hardly surprising: People who believe they've been abducted tend to be fantasy-prone and eccentric, for one. On the other hand, they don't tend to be crazy. Most abductees are regular Joes, with decent jobs; though they have varying levels of education, they are predominantly white and middle class. In addition to an appetite for fantasy, researchers have identified several mental phenomena that often accompany a person's belief that she's been abducted: One is sleep paralysis, a relatively common experience during which the brain and the body desynchronize briefly before waking up. The body remains paralyzed (as it is during REM sleep) while the mind enters a state between sleeping and waking, in which some people hallucinate. The theory goes that a subset of the hallucinators, primed by popular culture to believe in visits from otherworldly kidnappers, interpret their experiences as abductions. The second contributing factor is the mind's capacity to create false memories, particularly under hypnosis—which is how many abduction "memories" have been retrieved. In fact, it was the study of false memory and trauma that led Clancy to the aliens. She started graduate school in the mid-'90s, as psychologists were duking it out over the validity of "recovered" memories, and signed on to assist two professors with a study of sexual-abuse victims. The professors gave subjects lists of words to memorize—"sugar," "candy," "sour," "bitter"—that were all related to another word, "sweet," that was not on the list. People who had allegedly recovered memories of sexual abuse while in therapy, it turned out, were more likely than a control group to remember "sweet" as having been on the list—that is, to produce false memories in the lab. Of course, this did nothing to prove whether the women's abuse memories were themselves false, and Clancy and her colleagues were roundly attacked by victims' advocates and other scientists. So, the researchers went looking for another set of subjects—people whose memories were assumed by most people to be false—and they wound up with alien abductees. Again, their work revealed that abductees were also more likely to misremember words than a control group. www.slate.com

Love the middle to this it makes the whole thing. strong.

Did you see the scene in the film 'About A boy' when the kid through the stale bread and it killed the duck?

Reminded me of a wise old japanese man sharing his pearls of wisdom to a group of samurai. Veryt nice.

You could have used patron instead of patroness (as -ess tends to come off as sexist in many cases) although I try not to use either when refering to a woman seeing that the word stems from the Latin word pater or patr for father.

I like that you've taken something as sad as being rejected by a girl, and rubbed it into their face. That's probably the only thing I like about this, the rest...truely is, pathetic.

PS-The metaphor breaks down where you have God wearing pants. PPS-Also where you have Sponge Bob Square Pants' followers be "Square Pants Bobbers". That would make the followers of Jesus Christ King of Kings "King Kinged Christers".

I would like this poem more if more of it was in shizzle. For example: I shizzled many an egizzle Who flizzled as hizzle as bald eagizlles With trizzles so hizzle to digizzle That I could not lizzle at rizzle Hizzle in makizzling pizzle to pizzle Mentizzle pictizzles the izzles wizzle to izzle.

I thought a lot of this was good. The first two lines need to go, though. A total absence IS a void. That's what void means.

Is that all you women ever think about? Sheesh!

Which it is soused hogs face?

Ironically it coincides with recent topics of conversation on Poemranker. But that's probably why you reposted it.

Everyboudy knouws that douring the American War Against the Hounourable King, us English were fighting for the rights of woumen, the blind, schooul children, and the ineluctable right to play Checkeurs the day befoure and afteur the Christiaun Sabbauth. You American fools deserve to be destrouyed!

Great. I have no idea what you're talking about.

It has a Langston Hughes/Mia Angelo quality to it. Drug is a medication or narcotic. You mean dragged. Although drugged would make it the most interesting line in the poem.

This is deep.....Sometimes you do meet your true love at a young age. Good luck "Scitz" I give you a -9-

(sorry if this sucks it was written while Return of the jedi was on pause, the ewoks are kicking ass, gotta go)