Re: Here by anagram	31-Aug-02/7:20 PM
I feel I must apologise to you as well, god'swife. The things I've done -- the things I've said -- they've been awful, haven't they? I hope your skirt has a place for me to cling to, because in your ever-surprising, constantly-challenging world I've truly found my raison d'etre. You bring a beauty and a joy to my life that I never thought could exist! Your courteous, frank, refreshing comments, your helpful criticism -- well what more could anyone want? And not only are you helpful and kind, but you're also a beautiful poet and a sensitive, wonderful mother! Just think - surprise your son with a lovely poem with your signature on it! My mother used to beat me with a meat fork. Perhaps that's why I've turned out to be such a sad, deprived, lonely child. All I ever wanted was some attention. I thought maybe I could get it by being mean and horrible, but it's much nicer when you're nice, isn't it? Beige. Beige. I see it... I see it all now.
Re: 9/11 by TheDevil	31-Aug-02/7:30 PM
What the fuck do I know? What the fuck do you know? For someone who today wrote several hundred (if not thousand) words on the failings of someone he only knows from a few non-serious poemes, you're one to talk. "Simply a reaction." Yeah. Those multiple-comment, ad hominem but completely involuntary diatribes are a pain sometimes. You remind me of the ugly child who hates all the other ugly children because they're ugly. Let me just get your position straight: You know all about Shin-Bojangles, his life, his prose, etc., because that's "blatant", but nobody can discern anything about you, because what the fuck would they know and actually you meant something different because they couldn't see your secret hand gesture? Right. Simple. As simple as that. It was simply a reaction.
Re: Here by anagram	31-Aug-02/7:35 PM
ha ha ha oh that's a classic
Re: Here by anagram	31-Aug-02/7:46 PM
Jesus Christ. You get better every time, anagram. Pretending? Who's pretending? Does everything have to be explained to you? And I'm not quite sure what insane idea you've got about my religion, but you've made comments about it twice in a row now. Perhaps you could tell me just what religion (and views on 'world order') it is I have. It'll be news to me. And while I'm hardly likely to pop up to Edinburgh, it so happens that I was in a "pub" last night. Fancy that! In a pub on Friday night! With other people! You and god'swife can be the president and treasurer of the 'predictable, hilarious assumptions about -=Dark)Angel=-'s life' club if you like. I wasn't doing a pub quiz, though. Does it still count?
Re: 9/11 by TheDevil	31-Aug-02/8:03 PM
Sigh. Will you *please* stop with the psychoanalysis? I'm sorry if you perceived that you're under my skin, but you're actually crap at that. anagram's much better. Now enough with the wry quips and onto the actual "discussion". My original interruption of you and razorgrin's lovein was supposed to relieve some tension. I thought I would do so by telling you you were full of shit so you'd be so busy thinking of quip-filled replies that you'd stop filling the comments section with that your-country's-naughtier argument. At least it worked, but now I have to deal with this. That's my position. I think I know yours by now. Let's drop it. Of course I'm the ugly child. But you're the ugly child that hates the other ugly children. I don't hate the other ugly children. but I don't exactly love them, because they're ugly. It's a metaphor. I'm not actually saying anything about ugly. Why did I "name" myself -=Dark_Angel=-? fucking hell. This has been a crowing triumph for so many people that I may as well get it out of the way. It was the single most cliched "nickname" I could think of. Do a search for "dark_angel" on google and you'll see what I mean. My comment about secret hand gestures was in reply to your comment about body language. We're arguing at ridiculous cross-purposes.
Re: Here by anagram	31-Aug-02/8:12 PM
Sorry, where was this incandescence of rage? I must have missed that. Pity. The whole 9/11 poeme debacle was the result of me pretending to be offended in a completely absurd way. I wanted to see a) if people would actually believe I was sincere, and b) if so, what would happen. Really. Obviously it worked too well. As for this "enigma" nonsense, I'm not trying to be enigmatic; but when people who've never met me start telling me what religion I have, what I do for fun, etc., it's only fair for me to tell them they've got it wrong, no? I'm not a Muslim. Jesus...one ironic comment containing the word 'Queen' and you're off wildly theorising and accusing. I'll remember to never touch your precious Freddy again.
Re: Here by anagram	31-Aug-02/8:27 PM
Pfff. You said I was a Muslim. I'm not. If that's not clarification enough for you, 's not my problem.
Re: Here by anagram	31-Aug-02/8:30 PM
And do you know what the best part is? Since this is your poeme, I know you're going to read this. But since you've just vowed never to look here again (and I trust a Scotsman would never lie), you're going to have to suffer in silence. Shame, that. Nighty-night!
regarding some deleted poem...	31-Aug-02/9:23 PM
I didn't write this, so I didn't mean it to be shit or otherwise. I posted it because I said that I would post some local newspaper poetry.
Re: Ignored by PK	3-Sep-02/2:53 AM
"Somtimes I feel so un-alive / Like my presence does not survive"... If that doesn't sound 'forced' then I don't know what does. "un-alive"... genius! Anyway, this whole poeme is 'forced'. "I wish I could rewind the time / And turn myself into a chime"... WTF? A chime? You want to turn into a chime? So that people will stop ignoring you? That's a bit obscure, don't you think? Just because 'chime' rhymes with 'time'. It's beak. You beak. Jesu will be very displeased when he reads this. VERY DISPLEASED.
regarding some deleted poem...	3-Sep-02/8:10 AM
What I mean is that, according to the 'Best' page, three of your poemes have the highest average scores of all the poemes on the site. Whereas, according to the 'Worst' section, three of mine have the lowest scores. We seem to be complementary beings. Like those things in the Dark Crystal. You are the King of putting words together in orders which stimulate the special and beautiful sensors of most of the predictable knaves who read this site. I am the King of putting words together in orders which stimulate the naughty and morally outrageous sensors in those same predictable knaves. While I may think that your poemes are 'well-written' and 'quite good', we clearly exist in fundamental opposition to one another. And therefore one of us must be destroyed by the other.
regarding some deleted poem...	3-Sep-02/10:29 AM
This is not a nice poeme. You are not a nice person. (Great comment though, nacitar!!!!) Let's start with the title, shall we? After reading this poeme, I realised that it could have one of only three possible titles: 1) Wandering thoughts(2) 2) untitled 3) The Magical Adventures of Dave AIDS and the three AIDSkateers. Why? Because it's an utterly predictable collection of meaningless platitudes. It's not profound or interesting. It's trite. I don't like it! I don't like it one bit! Anyone who wrote such a poeme would have difficulty giving it a title because it's just a load of random, teenage bollocks. Most people would just call it 'untitled' because they think work that is vague and meaningless is so profound that it defies any sort of label. Besides, poemes that are called 'untitled' are bound to be special, aren't they? However, "Wandering thoughts(2)" is at least an accurate title, if only because this piece must have been the product of a feeble, unfocused mind. What were you trying to achieve? Did you think you would be taking us on a roller-coaster-ride-of-discovery through your many beautiful thoughts, feelings and emotions? Do you want to know what I think? You haven't been praying to Jesu enough, have you! Do you go to church? Have you been saved? Do you know Jesu? I suggest you start now, lest there be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Thank you and God bless.
regarding some deleted poem...	3-Sep-02/4:43 PM
If you really did know Jesu, you would have written 'He is my saviour' rather than the blasphemous alternative: 'he is my saviour'. I don't think He will be very pleased.
regarding some deleted poem...	3-Sep-02/4:46 PM
multes pisces in corpuum nudum diffundit
regarding some deleted poem...	3-Sep-02/5:03 PM
Je vais au hypermarche avec mes amis. Puis je joue au football dans le jardin avec mon frere. Puis je regard la television. Puis je vais au cinema avec mes amis. Puis je joue au golf. Puis je vais a La Rochelle. C'est une ville tres interessant avec beaucoup de choses a faire. Deux baguettes s'il vous plait.
regarding some deleted poem...	3-Sep-02/5:15 PM
Yeah man I've seen shit. I've been through shit. On the streets man. Yeah on the streets you gotta be tough. You only got yourself man. Aint nobody gonna give a shit about your shit. Aint got no time for naivete here man.
regarding some deleted poem...	4-Sep-02/7:26 AM
Alors, le Renard Blanc. Bon d??guisement. Avez-vous les documents?
Re: Thorns by poetandknowit	4-Sep-02/11:53 AM
It utterly mystifies me every time someone confuses -=Dark_Angel=- for horus8 (e.g. Christof's intial misinterpretation of A Mused Mystery), or seems to think that -=Dark_Angel=- is yet another of the many accounts run by the same person as horus8, Bachus, <{Baba^Yaga}>, and so on. First of all the -=Dark_Angel=- account is older than all of those, so if they did belong to the same person, horus8 would be the light jibbering relief alter ego of -=Dark_Angel=-. But I don't expect the more recent comers to poemranker to study the 'date joined' column on the users list. What's more important is that there is hardly any similarity whatsoever between -=Dark_Angel=- and the other characters. Obviously in the minds of the 'serious' poets now dominating this site, they are all 'different' (from the serious poets) in some way, and that is enough to consign them to the same bin. But how are they different? horus8, Bachus et al are easily matched together. They're not so much alter egos, as alternate names chosen randomly at log in and used to spout the same meaningless, pseudo-mystical-offbeat-poetic, drug-addled (or drug-acted) nonsense. -=Dark_Angel=-, on the other hand, is surely characterised by naughty and irreverent poetic subjects, mock-archaic language, lack of tolerance for pretension and teeny tripe, and sometimes unfathomably heavy sarcasm, but also, when he does decide to argue something, for his clarity and logic. The only similarity is that horus8 uses many of -=Dark_Angel=-'s favourite terms, such as 'ASL', 'Jesu' and 'beak'; however, any cursory review of the comment history will reveal that not only is horus8 shamelessly imitating -=Dark_Angel=-'s original use of these words, but that in some cases he didn't realise what they actually meant (see for example his use of 'ASL'). -=Dark_Angel=- is in fact much more similar to Settle, waltfreakinwhitman and beakism (though these accounts have been inactive for a while now). Maybe horus8 et al are all run by a super-troll, carefully constructing their faux-stoned messages as well as running other, more rational accounts, but in that case, there's no reason -=Dark_Angel=- would be one of them. In fact, it's much more likely to be one such as god'swife. I think my rant here is finished. And so sayeth -=Dark_Angel=-. For alway.
Re: Thorns by poetandknowit	4-Sep-02/1:41 PM
-= li9h+_4nG3L =- is clearly not me either. My feelings about him can be read in 'Five Limericks...'. -=??lilaznjen??=- also has wings, but I don't think you were talking about him. PS. If it wasn't already obvious, I fucking hate goths.
regarding some deleted poem...	4-Sep-02/4:00 PM
We are acquainted, but we are not one and the same. Do our 'commenting styles' strike you as similar? He attacks people in the same semi-artificial style as I do because it appeals to his sense of humour, as it does mine. He finds similar things annoying. That is why I told him about poemranker. That's why he and I are 'acquainted'. I know you're going to try as hard as you can to prove that I am beakism, perhaps because it'll make you feel a bit superior. Don't bother. Instead, try reading the poetry/comments and notice that they're clearly not from the same person, instead of excitedly jumping to a favourable conclusion. Besides, do you really think I would be foolish enough to create an alter-ego who behaved just like me?