'you need to search' - sorry, my typing fingers are a bit tired at this time in the morning!

I think yiu need to dearch for what Eliot called the 'objective correlative' - that image, character, object, phrase on whcih you can hang your thoughts. It's not enough to write just as the thoughts come to you. You have to do something to crystallise it, to make it feel real to your reader. Otherwise there is a danger of drivelling off up blind alleyways. Essentially, Eliot wrote this very same poem when he wrote 'The Love Song of J. Alfred prufrock' and it's sublime because he sank his own fears into those of his character; he stood back and crafted his verse; he didn't just let it flow. You could do that, too.

Whatever. Anyway, I'm embarrassed by my part in this entire conversation. The only topic worth discussing here was -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I.'s asking if you envy the comfort of believers; and the answer is yes, you should, since you're in the worse position of believing only in a ridiculous, halfassed, and frankly unsustainable way, and not even knowing that -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. was making fun of you by asking. You're clearly the moralist here, as far as the negative, not-really-knowing-what-you're-talking-about sense that you clearly mean, and doubly so for supposing as you do that morality is strictly religious, judgmental, and poorly-thought-out - though, of the three of us, really only yours seems to be. Try again. PS-you misspelled "excercise"

All of this is deliberate. My theory is that artistic expression is best when you are barely in control of what the words mean. My experimenting with the words, even if you don't understand them, you arrive at linguistic truths. Read 'Ash Wednesday' by T.S. Eliot. Editing would destroy the fact that this embodies my mind making connections between words and ideas.

I DEFINTLY AGREE WITH SUPREME!!!!! ROTFLMMFAO @ "HILLBILLY PETRY FOLKS"

That's a ridiculous generalization. Hey, I keep using that word. Maybe I should just use that word. Hey, thanks.

My feeling is that men are stupid and women are insane. Makes for a volatile combination. And, yes, I think bow'ls is perfect.

Now Dovina, the Poemeranker will not be held hostile. We're going to have to conduct a crusade.