Re: a comment on Math Poem 4 by Dovina	Dovina 69.175.32.104	19-Nov-05/4:15 PM
I think "Submission" which runs along similar lines is better.
Re: Sonata for Robin and Poet by Dovina	cyan9 84.12.150.59	19-Nov-05/4:14 PM
Excellent as this is, I still cant believe you tried to criticise me for writing something from LaLa land. The Salivating line and the concept of the piece are excellent, making for pleasurable, surreal, (though not bizarre) reading.
Re: Math Poem 4 by Dovina	cyan9 84.12.150.59	19-Nov-05/4:09 PM
I don't want to cause offence, but this does suck.
Re: soon i will travel by ay deee	cyan9 84.12.150.59	19-Nov-05/4:04 PM
Had to rate this lowly, you've shot yourself in the foot, the fingers, the face and the butt with that last line.
Re: a comment on Us Sinners by BrandonW	Dovina 69.175.32.104	19-Nov-05/3:55 PM
You didn't write this, did you?
Re: a comment on Us Sinners by BrandonW	Dovina 69.175.32.104	19-Nov-05/3:49 PM
Is there any subject from which I am not disqualified due to one of your strongly held beliefs? Yes, I can describe some of your strongly held beliefs and how you came to believe them.
Re: a comment on Us Sinners by BrandonW	Dovina 69.175.32.104	19-Nov-05/3:44 PM
I would, in fact, argue with: "when you or I assume God, we almost always assume Christian God." But you and I know the direction that silly arguement would go. I could posit a good response, and say "Trump." But you know my position on trumping. I could do the same with "'There either is God, or there isn't' is a very Christian-God-minded thing to say." No point. I don't particularly believe in believing either. I particularly don't believe in assuming beliefs in others when they have not clearly stated or lived out those beliefs. A wise fish enticed to a pier-dangled hook will consider the source - Dovina
Re: a comment on Blackout, Amman, November, 2005 by zodiac	zodiac 217.144.7.195	19-Nov-05/11:49 AM
I was able to avoid the locusts. I wasn't able to avoid the mosquito, who was, and still is, real-life.
Re: a comment on Bread and blackthorns by Caducus	zodiac 217.144.7.195	19-Nov-05/11:47 AM
- Oh, almost forgot your gift: HISTORY Jennifer Michael Hecht Even Eve, the only soul in all of time to never have to wait for love, must have leaned some sleepless nights alone against the garden wall and wailed, cold, stupified, and wild and wished to trade-in all of Eden to have but been a child. In fact I gather that is why she leapt and fell from grace, that she might have a story of herself to tell in some other place.
Re: a comment on Bread and blackthorns by Caducus	zodiac 217.144.7.195	19-Nov-05/11:46 AM
I was referring to your comment "A Right Brain cannot get this I know", which is surely directed at me. You'll deny. I won't care.
Re: a comment on Us Sinners by BrandonW	zodiac 217.144.7.195	19-Nov-05/11:41 AM
As a woman, you are disqualified from describing the perfect woman. Your perfect woman is undoubtedly a man.
Re: a comment on Us Sinners by BrandonW	zodiac 217.144.7.195	19-Nov-05/11:40 AM
I think when you or I assume God, we almost always assume Christian God. You can argue, but "There either is God, or there isn't" is a very Christian-God-minded thing to say. I'm not hedging; I don't particularly believe in believing. I'll refuse to admit or deny the existence of anything unproven or unproveable. Call it a pier, then. Fishing, anyone?
Re: a comment on Us Sinners by BrandonW	zodiac 217.144.7.195	19-Nov-05/11:35 AM
Is that Mark Twain? This is: "If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be - a Christian." "There has been only one Christian. They caught him and crucified him - early."
Re: a comment on Us Sinners by BrandonW	ALChemy 24.74.101.159	19-Nov-05/8:52 AM
The Perfect Woman Doesn't she realize what I see through these eyes Tis not the milk white skin or silken hair nor blushed cheeks or flush red lips not starlight eyes that in mine eyes the sun cannot compair Doesn't she comprehend why I love her without end The answers in her foolish grin and her subtle intellect her hopeless dreams her clueless schemes For she is not perfection and that is why she is perfect
Re: a comment on Us Sinners by BrandonW	Dovina 69.225.179.162	19-Nov-05/8:01 AM
Why assume some particular god and adhere, because of an assumption, to some book? There either is God, or there isn't. If God is, we cannot confine or even describe Him. You say you don't particularly believe in god, which is hedging in the agnostic direction, atheist perhaps, except for your prior denial of atheism. As you know, I think there is God. Much of the Bible points to God, and some of it might even be inspired by Him. But other parts are, by the authors' own admission, merely literature. A bridge incomplete traverses no river - Dovina
Re: a comment on Us Sinners by BrandonW	Dovina 69.225.179.162	19-Nov-05/7:37 AM
I could describe a perfect woman better, but please allow him his fantasy.
Re: a comment on Bread and blackthorns by Caducus	Dovina 69.225.179.162	19-Nov-05/7:25 AM
To say Caducus is Right-brained is to say that he leans toward the artistic side of his brain, favoring it over the logical side. It's not the same as catagorizing to the extent of prejudice. We use labels all the time, it's part of language.
Re: a comment on Us Sinners by BrandonW	ALChemy 24.74.101.159	19-Nov-05/6:38 AM
I don't believe Jesus would have wanted his religion to be called Christianity, I think he would have wanted it to be called the Nuju. That's me, a Nuju. Not a devout Nuju though.
Re: a comment on Blackout, Amman, November, 2005 by zodiac	ALChemy 24.74.101.159	19-Nov-05/6:34 AM
A few images I got while reading this poem you might get a kick out of: While on a second reading with a political approach. When you got to the "Whee" part I couldn't help but picture GWB's face superimposed onto Ned Beatty's in that infamous scene in Deliverence. I got this image of you writing this with the word "Locusts" flying around your head and trying to land on your poem and ruin it. You're feverishly writing while swatting at it and saying "Get the fuck out of here! Go fly up Linda Blairs ass." I kept thinking while I was reading this "Please don't say locusts. This is the best thing I've read in a while and If you say locusts I'm going to kill you.
Re: a comment on Love letter by zodiac	ALChemy 24.74.101.159	19-Nov-05/5:40 AM
Growing up a dyslexic you can imagine the deep respect I have for her.