ha ha ha... that gave me a cackle, LEMONAIDS.

You should write a happy poem about having AIDS.

Only you think that's a contradiction.

LOLTTM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh, my!

This poem says nothing except that your as bad at psychology as most other things you've tried to write about here. And that despite your too often repeated (and probably new) aversion to God, your terribly, shamefully moral in the most conventional sense. And what part of 'jape' are you not understanding?

I thought I was disagreeing with "if we are successful in Iraq it will be as much a victory for secularism as anything else". Now I'm not so sure :-(

This is where you get yourself in trouble every time. I haven't said anything about you being a bum "and therefore having a bum idea of poetry." For one thing, being a bum doesn't mean you necessarily have a bum idea about poetry. Consider, for example: http://www.angelfire.com/folk/famoustramp/poems.html To rephrase. You are a bum. You have a bum idea about poetry. To wit, you clearly think poetry, that magical ephemeral gobble that it is, has something to do with almost anything except the skill and technique needed to write good poetry. Consider my original questions for the comment above: Q: How would a painter, as a poet, write poetry? A: Why the fuck wouldn't he write it like a poet?!?! You're essentially saying: Frank is a painter. Frank is a poet. Frank writes poetry like a painter, not like a poet. You say this because you think poetry takes little work except for tapping into the meatwell of your tender pre-menopausal heart. Anyone can do it. Or, you're bound to argue, so - Q: How would Van Gogh, as a painter, make a chair? A: Probably all bad, crooked and perspectiveless. You'd think that's cool, I'm sure. Until you tried to sit in it and fell on your detaching uterus. Or bum. In all honesty, Merry Christmas.

Made my day, but a literary masterpiece?

Thanks, can't get better than 10.

Thanks brother, I lived in Africa for a few years amongst beautiful people.

Thanks Dovina, a great score. Punctuation has always been my weakness, I tend to grap a pinch, scatter it and hope it lands in the right place. Re 'No longer..., it seemed ok at the time. Thanks for the crit.

Not to yell at you or anything, but I would just ike to comment on the fact that whenever someone writes a sad poem people patronize them, saying that at least they don't have cancer or AIDS or something, and whenever someone writes a happy poem they are called naive and fake. How can you win like that? Oh, and just so you know, this peom wasn't just about losing my virginity. I hope that's not how it came across to everyone.

Just like you. hay soul man!!

Yar diz ist just vot ims lookig for vell doning. good limerick 10/10