Re: a comment on Smoky Mountain High by Dovina	6-Jun-05/2:43 PM
I beg to differ with your premise that there is a difference in what the people in each place are seeing. The bloody sun rises on the lower Mississippi in late summer and looks like the red sun rising through smoke of Southern California firestorm. The yellow murk and the hot pink evening look similar too. The only differences are ashes falling and the attitude of the residents.
Re: Always Forever by Princess_Snowflake	5-Jun-05/10:19 PM
How long is "almost a few years"? How long is "always forever"?
Re: a comment on Applicative-Order Fixed-Point Operator by -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I.	4-Jun-05/7:03 AM
So, could you solve it?
Re: a comment on Applicative-Order Fixed-Point Operator by -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I.	4-Jun-05/6:58 AM
You're not reading the question carefully. There is no such trickery as you imagine. The answer is a volume.
Re: Adibe's Song (third-time's-the-charm revision, less Spanish) by zodiac	3-Jun-05/1:32 PM
Why is she in the men's residencia? Is she a she? The scarf implies so. Why is hermano not Hermano? Is a hacienda a residencia? Not ordinarily. Why are housewives in a men's residencia? Why capital Heaven, but not church? How does she know tomorrow's headlines? Last line is good.
Re: a comment on Wanted by Dovina	3-Jun-05/12:33 PM
Random wandering - sometimes. Specific wandering, like to poets related to rockmage - seldom.
Re: a comment on Swoon by Dovina	3-Jun-05/12:11 PM
#1 I didn’t say, "he turns them outward" But I did say, “the man behind you takes your dangling hands, turns your thumbs outward, pulling, leaving no choice but to rest back on his chest.” Are you doing margaritas again? #2 I appreciate your concern, I really do, but how could it be chests with only one of me? And yes, it does refer back to “its dome a breast of his wife.” #3 I’ve mentioned Irish ancestry in other poems. Thanks for remembering.
Re: a comment on Applicative-Order Fixed-Point Operator by -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I.	3-Jun-05/10:50 AM
That depends on the angle between the bottom's plane and the horizontal.
Re: Soldier by kev_wannabe	3-Jun-05/10:44 AM
Trite.
Re: Structure of a Woman by al-naafiysh	3-Jun-05/10:34 AM
But I think you do have fancy architecture. It's sad that being built to love and understand, we're often hating and misunderstanding.
Re: a comment on Swoon by Dovina	3-Jun-05/10:26 AM
“Dangling hands and outward thumbs”: Stand with your hands dangling at your sides. If someone takes your hands from behind and turns your thumbs outward, then pulls them back, what happens? You rest against his chest. “Your breasts feel connected or do you?”: I feel connected with the women in my past, and the feeling is also in my breasts. “Unique line of womanhood”: I’m referring to my ancestry, and never thought of the way you‘ve taken it. It’s funny, really! “The reality dream ending loses me”: It’s a questionable ending for sure. I meant that the reality of the thing he was describing became so overwhelming that it seemed like a dream – a swoon. “Facing east”: The direction only matters in the specific setting, and I have no right to expect anyone to know that. Glad you like it heaps anyway.
Re: a comment on Wanted by Dovina	3-Jun-05/10:03 AM
It's a good poem about private revenge. But I fail to see how it applies to this poem.
Re: Captian, Doctor..Father by celticskatermatt1	2-Jun-05/7:33 PM
A little sappy, but alright, yep - all right.
Re: Truckers should not be poets by INTRANSIT	2-Jun-05/7:31 PM
Splitting the years into pieces to please, some time pleasing here, some there, splitting gears, split by peers. Think I'll stay home.
Re: Adibe's Song (third-time's-the-charm revision, less Spanish) by zodiac	2-Jun-05/12:45 PM
Not knowing language or culture, I'd say she knotted her scarf, but can't see what she makes of it all.
Re: a comment on Applicative-Order Fixed-Point Operator by -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I.	2-Jun-05/12:33 PM
I didn't write the question. It appeared in The Ladies Diary in the nineteenth century. Consider the language in use then when interpreting it. You, a math major, should do better than a mere uneducated lady who probably had to steal into her husband's office to use a log-trig book late at night.
Re: a comment on Applicative-Order Fixed-Point Operator by -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I.	2-Jun-05/12:27 PM
Wrong.
Re: a comment on Applicative-Order Fixed-Point Operator by -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I.	2-Jun-05/12:27 PM
You didn't answer the question, unless you mean by this: "No, but I can cheat."
Re: Where I'm From by lil_evil_boi	2-Jun-05/12:20 PM
If you'd just made a list, it would say as much, and as little.
Re: a comment on Life and Love by windyone	2-Jun-05/11:38 AM
1) 9 2) 5 Not including the pleasure of analyzing.