Thanks. Judging by the timestamps it took you 20 hours a 22 minutes to generate your backhanded complement. Based on your logic this would mean you don't have a job and you suffer from carpal tunnel syndrome, probably due to over masturbation. I do masturbate occasionally but never once have I cried. If you're crying then you've probably worn the skin off but that'll happen after 20 hours and 22 minutes.

You still don't get it. When I use the word "trump" I don't mean "to trounce someone, as in bridge or cribbage or whatever". I mean "to make a trumpeting sound with one's buttocks in the interest of escape." The confusion might arise from the fact that the -=Dark_Angel=-,P.I. who originally used trump on poemranker meant the second meaning, while the -=Dark_Angel=- you're talking uses the first. The original context of trump on this particular page is the original, negative, poemranker meaning. I never intend to trump. When I do, I almost always admit it. For example: "I don't believe you. Sorry, I'm well-aware this is the comment-equivalent of a spaz." 1. I considered using lines from your poems to argue that you assume Christian-God, but then I thought, what the hell? For one, the facile (and totally correct) response is going to be that your poems don't necessarily reflect your assumptions, and besides your poems are too vague in most cases to pin them down to Christianity (the one that's a plagiarized psalm included). And for two, this is an open dialogue, right? Why don't I just ask you? I've noticed Islam, Judaism, and African animism (at least) entirely lack the following concept: Whatever you do for the least of my people, you do for God/the good of the whole. Keeping in mind that responding positively does not "pin you down as Christian" (you could be Buddhist or Confuscist, at least), how do you respond to the aboveposted concept? That's a start. 2. Having by now researched or personally experienced all the world's major religions, I've never heard anyone but a Christian say something like 'There either is a God, or there isn't'. That's nowhere near conclusive, but I'm not trying to trounce on you, I'm running an idea past you. Moreover, I'd say that only Christianity at present coexists-with/allows/encourages the kind of critical inquiry required for a person to think 'There either is a God, or there isn't.' Those are my experiences anyway. I'd be interested in hearing yours.

I'm young enough to accept. Actually, I pretty much have; at least, I've wasted the last year-and-a-half of my life doing good deeds in an Arabic backwater. And I don't even have the certainty of saving Arabs from extinction.

The comment's deleted. I got what you meant. The most common comment on poemranker is some variation on "I know exactly the feeling" or "I've had this same experience" - the commenter praising himself, rather than the poem.

I got two. -10-

During a brief stint teaching at an adult high school, I helped a guy with pretty bad dyslexia get his G.E.D., including getting him through Algebra and Geometry. That's still one of the most rewarding experiences of my life.

Your're there. Child prostitution and the occasional murder and cover up. Noone their cares though so covering up the invisible is ironic. As usual I'm in a happy mood lol.

It would definately be more provokative, thats for sure. Why not go the whole hog and go for "A pulse for autumn's sprogging."

Alternatively, let the nasty mut go free into the wilderness where it belongs, replacing it with a spanking new poodle that follows you round and people tell you how cute it is.... Allright, maybe I should leave them (it allows people to pick up on your faults and give better feedback, rather than saying "nice write"); but once they are off the recent list then nobody really looks at them anyway, so the temptation rather than to see them go bad and lonely is to cover them up with a new poem, so that at least nobody sees them after they've gone bad.

You still don't get it. You seem to care most care about trumping, while I usually don't care. We could discuss those two topics you posed if your intent were not simply to trump. 1. "when you or I assume God, we almost always assume Christian God." 2. "'There either is God, or there isn't' is a very Christian-God-minded thing to say." There seems little point in arguing just to win, when so much can be learned through dialog of parties who want to extend their understandings, and all the more so when they hold widely differing views.

If I deleted every poem that someone said sucks, you can name one that I'd delete, and I can name a lot more. I think it's better to leave a nasty dog alone. Who knows, in a few months, someone might change his mind and take the mut home. It's happened.