Re: a comment on Emily Mae by horus8	4-Feb-04/7:59 PM
I was being sarcastic.
Re: a comment on Emily Mae by horus8	4-Feb-04/1:45 PM
I’m no idiot (not a professional, at least), so I understand that there is no bond stronger than between mother and child. While I'm sure your sentiment was well received by your friend and judged on that merit alone, your posting it here entitles myself or (anyone for that matter) to rank it how we see fit. With that said, your harsh name calling was unwarranted and far more insulting than my comment. Suddenly, I need a good cry.
Re: Notes toward a possible poem by Nicholas Jones	4-Feb-04/9:26 AM
Suck factor- 10
Re: Something's gone wrong by zodiac	4-Feb-04/9:21 AM
Something's gone wrong with this poem. It leaves me with hate. You- for being what's wrong. Her- for being a coward. The ending- for being too abrupt. I can't like it. Yet this is one of the best poems here.
Re: a comment on Digging A Grave by Billy Biff-Chin	4-Feb-04/9:07 AM
Come on now, Billy's poems are great! For me to poop on.
Re: Emily Mae by horus8	4-Feb-04/9:04 AM
I find it hard to believe that you wrote this poem. Next you'll be writing epic poems about how only the Lighthouse Keeper is lonelier than you are. One can hardly swing a dead animal in here without hitting poems of varying quality extolling the deep sadness of lost love. People, for Christ's sake slap a tourniquet on your bleeding hearts and write something interesting!
Re: a comment on A Beard Most Foul by wFraser Allonby Q.C.w	3-Feb-04/12:35 PM
Reading these "beard" poems are like watching an old dog with no sense of smell try to locate his food; enough bashing will get the job done eventually, but it's almost too sad to laugh at.
Re: a comment on Tales From The Outhouse by -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I.	3-Feb-04/12:26 PM
Color me stunned! You certainly are the crispiest chip in the bag. Too bad it's a colostomy bag.
Re: a comment on Come off with me Carly back into the city by zodiac	28-Jan-04/4:35 PM
I preferred the original note.
Re: Cold Rain Road by middenHeap	28-Jan-04/4:24 PM
The last line is as useless as tits on a nun. Otherwise I liked it. 7
Re: a comment on After The Years Howl By by Lenore	28-Jan-04/4:03 PM
I tend to struggle with titles. But then again, It's hard when you're a dork. Any suggestions?
Re: a comment on Come off with me Carly back into the city by zodiac	28-Jan-04/9:02 AM
"keeps me mellow" sounds better when said aloud.
Re: Come off with me Carly back into the city by zodiac	28-Jan-04/8:55 AM
<keeps me fellow> I think mellow would work better here. Nice and depressing. 8
Re: a comment on Captain Cannibal by Lenore	27-Jan-04/9:38 AM
HOLY SHIT! LOL
Re: a comment on Captain Cannibal by Lenore	27-Jan-04/9:35 AM
You of all poets should condemn dogmatism and categorization. I'm shocked! Does this mean the scent of death is upon you?
Re: a comment on Captain Cannibal by Lenore	27-Jan-04/9:00 AM
And yet again I hear the familiar nasal whine of how any artist without any formal training, regardless of actual quality, is the tool of the devil and their work pure garbage. As an “outside” artist who has been consistently selling my paintings and drawings for the last 15 years, I find your statement insulting and absurd. The hate (and jealousy) heaped upon outside artists and similar hell-bred poets usually degrade from an honest attempt to raise public awareness of alternative technique to remarkably childish verbal slap-fights or internal circle-jerks that make everyone involved look like socially stunted malcontents. And therein lies the crux of the problem. It is virtually impossible at any given time to appraise accurately or conclusively artists/poets who have not been dead for roughly a century. In general the most you critics can honestly hope to do is to enlighten your audience as to what an individual artist/poet may be trying to do, and how his/her art relates to the world. But for you to assign any contemporary artist/poet his place (high or low) in history is pure arrogance. Go ahead and continue to label me for purposes of your own and I will continue to ignore these labels in order to create. Oh and to drop another iconoclastic name… Courbet once said “There can be no schools: there are only painters” The same can be said about poets.
Re: a comment on Captain Cannibal by Lenore	26-Jan-04/9:08 PM
Thank you it's good to be back and nice to see everyone is still here. I've been watching Oprah. She taught me something too. Being a powerful Woman means a whole boatload of hard work and sacrifice. But what kind of an idiot would I be to go through all of that? So I decided to go back to writing poetry.
Re: a comment on Captain Cannibal by Lenore	26-Jan-04/8:16 PM
How can I be so misunderstood? Is it so terrible, unthinkable even, to post a poem with the only intent being to share it? That’s not to say that I don’t want or appreciate the critiquing, I do. And admittedly I do get off on watching others chew it up and spit it out or savor its juicy center. It is not that I feel I stand alone as you wrote. It’s that I feel the poem can stand alone or crash and burn depending on the reader. I simply cannot agree that a poet or artist is obligated to make his or her work understood. Is it not enough to paint for the sake of painting? Allowing the meaning to unfold spontaneously and in the end subjectively? Think of Pollock madly lashing at his canvas, painting so fast that there is little time for forethought. Perhaps to some his finished canvas brought order out of chaos and it’s meaning becomes clear. To others it is nothing more than a canvas covered in haphazardly splattered paint. The beauty is lost or found depending on the perception of the beholder. Regardless of it’s intentional presupposed meaning (or none there of). Am I still completely unable to properly describe what this whole thing is all about? I have no plans or expectations for my poems at all and they only exists because it is what I truly enjoy and is probably the only way some brutal hack like me could ever obtain a public stage, such as this.
Re: a comment on Captain Cannibal by Lenore	26-Jan-04/2:11 PM
I completely disagree with your logic. First I do not feel obligated to make my poetry understood. Believe it or not I could care less about that. Secondly a majority opinion does not necessarily imply truth. If it did I would resign myself to the fact that Jesus is in fact the Son of God. While I do personally get off on being ranked, I get even bigger jollies from the variety of interpretations.
Re: a comment on Captain Cannibal by Lenore	26-Jan-04/1:41 PM
Gay...You're right! I like it. What is the poem about? Well clearly it’s about an intellectual giant who delicately intertwines the secrets of the cosmos and truths about the very nature of man. Or at the very least that is how I see it. However, it’s not all that important for me to convey a particular meaning. Rather I think it better to have the reader find his or her own meaning.