Re: a comment on Muff by Stephen Robins	Stephen Robins 213.146.148.199	21-Mar-06/4:30 AM
That comment could be applied to any of my "poetry".
Re: Muff by Stephen Robins	Caducus 86.144.226.63	21-Mar-06/2:53 AM
Fucking disgusting but i'm guilty of laughing.
Re: a comment on Numbers In Heaven by Dovina	ALChemy 24.74.100.11	20-Mar-06/9:35 PM
There you go again. Great line.
Re: a comment on Numbers In Heaven by Dovina	Dovina 70.38.78.229	20-Mar-06/4:27 PM
I suppose I should say thanks. But it’s like having built my dream house, and after taking you on a grand tour, I ask your opinion. “I like the adorable footprints you left all around as you were building it,” you say.
Re: a comment on REM Sleep by mystic enoch	zodiac 209.193.14.10	20-Mar-06/3:29 PM
Well, crap, I'm never against wasting time. I love wasting. And of course I kissed her.
Re: a comment on REM Sleep by mystic enoch	ALChemy 24.74.100.11	20-Mar-06/3:27 PM
Wow. I see why you choose to stay out of the conversation. But because Ranger, Dovina and me have a little different approach to love and such things I think the conversation I had with them was certainly not absurd at least in our minds. I see now that it's an obsurd conversation to have with you based on your philosophy and I appologize for the waste of time I caused you. But you at least kissed her at the end, right?
Re: a comment on Numbers In Heaven by Dovina	ALChemy 24.74.100.11	20-Mar-06/3:13 PM
Because these are more true to the real Dovina. They're personal unfiltered and naturally written. They're quite beautiful.
Re: a comment on REM Sleep by mystic enoch	zodiac 209.193.14.10	20-Mar-06/3:11 PM
For the sake of specificity, here are the relevant parts of my wedding ceremony: "zodiac/mrs zodiac, do you wish to always strive to understand mrs zodiac/zodiac; to want to learn more about him/her; to make decisions with him/her and compromise when necessary; to evaluate your life together on a daily basis; and to communicate fully and fearlessly, even if it seems easier not to do so? zodiac/mrs zodiac: We do. And do you both wish to journey into your future together, to be friends and lovers [in the physical sense], to be concerned for each other’s happiness, to join each other’s laughter with your own, to make things together, and to trust that your relationship will handle the challenges that you will face? both: we do. This is the understanding you have been creating ever since the first days of your relationship. You’ve never been bound to it by anything stronger than your own daily choices, and you never should, for no legal contract will be as strong as your honest desire."
Re: a comment on REM Sleep by mystic enoch	ALChemy 24.74.100.11	20-Mar-06/3:04 PM
I guess your marriage could be based on brother/sister love. You are from the south after all. I said a certain SOURCE of happiness although I misspelled it the first time. As far as knowing everything about marraige goes, nobody does, not even you. I expect no more love poems written by you on this site, just happy poems.
Re: a comment on Numbers In Heaven by Dovina	Dovina 70.38.78.229	20-Mar-06/2:56 PM
Now that's a high blow. You mean I could just as well post my diary entries, and rebut zodiac, and be better esteemed in your judgement as to slave over these 200 odd poems?
Re: a comment on REM Sleep by mystic enoch	zodiac 209.193.14.10	20-Mar-06/2:54 PM
"I see you changed happy to love." I'm not sure I did, but I'd like it back to happy now -- which, as I've said, is knowable and irreducible, while love is apparently everything from what you do to your wife to what you do to pie. My marriage literally calls for a certain happiness. It doesn't call for a certain kind of love, so I guess you don't know everything about marriages, do you, Al?
Re: a comment on REM Sleep by mystic enoch	ALChemy 24.74.100.11	20-Mar-06/2:54 PM
T.M.I.
Re: a comment on REM Sleep by mystic enoch	ALChemy 24.74.100.11	20-Mar-06/2:47 PM
I don't love pumpkin pie. I don't spend sleepless nights thinking about pumpkin pie, I've never thought about sticking my dick in pumpkin pie(OK maybe once but I was young and curious). I see you changed happy to love. You seem to have trouble seperating the two. Marriage calls for a certain kind of love but not necessarily a certain sorce of happiness.
Re: a comment on REM Sleep by mystic enoch	Ranger 62.252.32.15	20-Mar-06/2:46 PM
So? Charlie the First wasn't over popular, we killed him and forced his son into exile, then when we realised that our 'local boy' Cromwell really wasn't all that great we suddenly decided that we wanted Charles II back in the adoring arms of Glorious Britain. We're fickle sods like that.
Re: a comment on REM Sleep by mystic enoch	zodiac 209.193.14.10	20-Mar-06/2:42 PM
He was hardly considered the 'local boy' at the time, as I recall.
Re: a comment on REM Sleep by mystic enoch	zodiac 209.193.14.10	20-Mar-06/2:41 PM
My wife is, in fact, the tickle monster.
Re: a comment on REM Sleep by mystic enoch	zodiac 209.193.14.10	20-Mar-06/2:39 PM
Yes, but that's what I'm saying. A chemical reaction making you happy still leaves you, well, happy. Yes, it's just a brain reaction, even under the best circumstances. So? If you mean why should I worry about anything beyond my own life like my wife's happiness, well, that's the clincher. On the most basic level, I worry about my wife's happiness because she makes me happy and I want to protect my arrangement with her. Is there more level? Maybe! Who cares? If you mean why am I not just a nihilist and fuckall -- well, just because I'm interested in my own happiness on earth and don't believe a God is keeping score to let me in heaven, that doesn't mean I have to fuck up other people's lives. My personal experience is fucking up people's lives doesn't make me very happy, and that they have a right to be happy as much as I do, to say nothing of the possibility that my fucking up their lives will cause them to kill me or something. It's all very social-contracty, you see?
Re: a comment on REM Sleep by mystic enoch	Ranger 62.252.32.15	20-Mar-06/2:38 PM
Zodiac, 'Scottish' is also 'British'. As in 'part of the British Isles'. Be polite.
Re: a comment on REM Sleep by mystic enoch	ALChemy 24.74.100.11	20-Mar-06/2:36 PM
That already puts you way ahead of most of us.
Re: a comment on REM Sleep by mystic enoch	ALChemy 24.74.100.11	20-Mar-06/2:35 PM
A flash: Zodiac sees the girl of his dreams. My true love! He says. "No," she says and rips off her disguise, "I'm the tickle monster and I've come to make you happy".