Dovina
on The Hawk by Dovina
11 Nov 2005, 4:20 PM
Lots of hits, but no comments, the first time around. A few changes, and another try.
Or better:
ungainly beak,
hard, uncomfortable,
finds day’s end rest,
thrust in bush-clad crevice,
twixt wing and breast.
Yes, it’s a pathetic prophecy, and really, it’s one of the possible outcomes. The virus mutates so rapidly that even though billions of doses of vaccine might be ready, a new mutation could wipe out millions of people before a suitable vaccine comes online. But my purpose in writing this is not to play Prophet. It’s to look at the way people think about pandemic, like the flu that came during WWI and killed more people than the war did.
Damn Muslim servers will do it to ya every time.
Love is surrender. This is why you're incapable.
Maybe some Viagra might help?
Crap. We've finally repeated the word prostitute too many times for me to upload "I LOVE A PROSTITUTE", so here are my answers:
1) I wouldn't call a poem about my wife "I Love an 8-year-old Girl", obviously. If I had an 8-year-old daughter I would love to love her, but I'm afraid my faithlessness and cynicism have made me entirely incapable of love. The irony is Dovina warned me this would happen.
2) The New Testament Marys are Mother of God, Sister of Lazarus and Martha, and the one who found out the tomb was empty. The woman taken in adultery (note-not necessarily a prositute) isn't named, but confuted with the second two Marys by tradition (as are Mary sister of Lazarus and Mary at the Tomb). It's all rather boring and covered at too much length by the ass-ugly so-called novel, The Da Vinci Code.
Birds of a feather.
You don't love an 8 year old girl?! This will explain why when you have a daughter she will grow up to be a prostitute and Mascara-wait no-Basketball-Ah what ever the fuck his name is! will fall madly in love with her (probably while she's snowballing him). And all because you didn't love her you heartless bastard. :~(
My appetite inclines towards 'strawberrish' or 'chocolatish'! (self-made words, mind you!)
He's saved from copywrite violations because he can't spell "truly" (unless he meant to put the word "trull" in. Then he's just saying she's a whore, which would give him something in common with the young poet posted beneath me).
But the most controversial question is 'was Mary actually a prostitute?' Or was she as many say an honourable princess who was later defamed as a prostitute by the church to save their own reputation?
Questionable and controversial!
What a pathetic prophecy. I'd never see these things coming.
Try something like: Dovina and Zodiac marry after she runs over his Jetta with her truck and they see each other for the first time. On their wedding night they engage in the rare cannibalerotica in which they devour each other from the toes up until there is nothing left but their heads left. The remaining few seconds of their lives are subsequently spent bickering with each other.
Now that's a fuckin' prophecy
Me? I prefer my women just lightly salted.
Ew.
Jeez. I wonder where you guys get these ideas of college girls. I'm studying electrical engineering, and not one of the girls I know are sex-crazed nymphomaniacs. They're more likely to be ponytailed geekettes in a predominantly masculine environment.
Are you suggesting it's as unreasoning to blame God and Bush for virus and unpreparedness as it is to blame Donald Duck? Or merely that people are prone to blame everything, the right along with the wrong? Either way, it's dangerous talk on your part.
You must be always giving yourself swirlies in the locker room.
Haven't you already been berated about this this year?
Weighted score uses the idea that the more people vote on a poem, the more its true ranking shows. Say you post a poem and the first vote on it is a 10. Then your unweighted average is 10 and you're the best poem on poemranker. Now say another 298 people vote 10 on your poem and one person votes 9. Now your unweighted average is 9.997 and someone who's just posted a poem and gotten one 10-vote beats you. Supposedly, the weighted average becomes closer to the true average the more people vote for you, though I have my doubts about nentwined's math. If you're interested (or Indian), the formula is
WEIGHTEDAVERAGE = 5+((avg-5)/(1+e^(3-votes/3)))