Re: a comment on Watching by DMonster	12-Jan-04/7:24 AM
You mean, like in case it was full of crack, so that it wouldn't go to waste? Probably not. Though most of the rest of the neighbourhood was crack houses, this building was actually the headquarters & rehearsal space of a small theatre company and the Vancouver Ukranian society or some such non-profit. Afterwards it became a used car lot. They put up a little iron fence to keep the junkies out, and someone was always putting flowers there. The arsonist burned down 3 or 4 more non-profit organizations before they caught him. I guess he had a thing against NGOs.
Re: a comment on Watching by DMonster	12-Jan-04/6:16 AM
I ain't weeping. Another time in that same office I walked in on a B&E, the guys were hopped up on pcp or something and had knives & I had to run from them to another office & call 911 again. And another time I was working very late and I was taking a nap and I woke up and heard men outside shouting things like "get me a hose on number 3" and I looked outside and everywhere was flame. It was the building next door--arson. I called a coworker who lived nearby, he came immediately and we rushed around unplugging computers. A big blocky fireman came in and yelled at us. "What's more important, the computers or your lives?" But they saved our building. I remember the firemen in the snorkels silhouetted against the orange night just before the front wall fell into the street and killed one of them. They looked like angels, steam and smoke billowing around them.
Re: a comment on The Blues by fevriere	12-Jan-04/4:38 AM
perhaps he meant quaver?
Re: a comment on Cherry Blossoms (anti-haiku) by middenHeap	12-Jan-04/4:34 AM
marilyn manson was dancin' & prancin' and with his pecker the bouncers a'lancin' one tried to sue and I think you would too -- for who knows what disease you'd be chancin'!
Re: New commandments by little_big_nose	12-Jan-04/2:06 AM
There once was a black-clothed paintballer Who at christians would constantly holler He'd be far less wroth, (& maybe more preppy than goth) If only his dick would stand taller
Re: New commandments by little_big_nose	12-Jan-04/1:23 AM
Little_Big_Nose & The Argument From Evil ------ There once was a little big nose Who ever the question did pose If there's a god, Why'd he give me a rod That's only as big as my toes?
Re: The critic by juxtaposition	12-Jan-04/1:17 AM
lol, you've been reading Mr. B.
Re: a comment on Mermaid by lastobelus	12-Jan-04/1:12 AM
oh dear, I'm afraid our little spat must be dreadfully boring for our fellow wankers. To ameliorate that, shall we continue in limerick form? Right then, I'll start us off: Little_Big_Nose & The Argument From Evil ------ There once was a little big nose Who ever the question did pose If there's a god, Why'd he give me a rod That's only as big as my toes?
Re: a comment on Mermaid by lastobelus	11-Jan-04/7:47 PM
yes, and you see the trick is, right after that moment when you (finally) realize someone was just jerking your chain, is to have that "aha!" moment and realize "I have CHAINS! and omigod they're BIG chains! No WONDER people are always jerking them"
Re: a comment on Mermaid by lastobelus	11-Jan-04/7:30 PM
Aha, you're a REPUBLICAN anti-christ. I KNEW it.
Re: a comment on Cherry Blossoms (anti-haiku) by middenHeap	11-Jan-04/7:27 PM
pardon me, which term are you using loosely, 'HOLY' or 'FUCK'? Are you accusing me of being a loose-holed fuck? The ego-boost is gratis, everyone deserves a pat on the back once and a while. And it is true that you spue better than I, I must bow to your spewing. I spew neither so vociferously nor desultorily as you. Alas, as I grow older I find fewer and fewer of my thoughts to be truly spueworthy. Whereas before I spawned an almost continuous spew of words like a cat in heat hosing furniture, now I must carefully hoard my literary sputum, and more often as not it simply dries in a thin metaphorical glaze over my dessicated metaphorical palate. Age, it sucks. I have so many liver spots now that you can't even make out my van halen tatoo.
Re: a comment on Mermaid by lastobelus	11-Jan-04/6:56 PM
well yes you see that's part of the metaphor. this is clearly meta-poetry--lastobelus is just whining about his "muse"--and hence should have been mine. Mine! but I got the cherry blossoms, which I didn't deserve at all.
Re: a comment on Come sleep with me by Freethinker1602	11-Jan-04/6:46 PM
I'm'a have tae try dat. Usually I scrunch t' feelings up into little balls and flick'm under t' couch, but me old mam she' alway getting on m' case about that so mayhap I'll try t'other. You stick 'm intae words, y'say? How d'ye go about it 'xactly? I bin wag'n me groin t'hole day since I read this post but I cain't get no feelin's t'come out in words. 'tall comes out as t'rollin' up stuff. Please let me know soon, I got quites t' mess here.
Re: a comment on In the Waiting Room by Elizabeth Bishop by Princess_Snowflake	11-Jan-04/6:35 PM
but anyway, thank you for reminding me about this poet. She's pretty good. If you like her, you should check out Martha Hollander.
Re: a comment on Cherry Blossoms (anti-haiku) by middenHeap	11-Jan-04/6:23 PM
there will be no spawning here, satan. This is a pome about cherry blossoms & beetles. Spawning just doesn't enter into it. There are no fish & no porn-site javascript. This is an orderly pome & so an unsuitable environment for spawntaneous sex acts. is lucehfyr the feminist spelling of satan? are you a she-devil? Even if you tempt me for 40 days & nights I ain't taking my pants off. You'll have to go spawn with little_big_nose. Big refers to his actual nose, little refers to...well I'm sure you get the picture. He's an anti-christ, so the two of you should get along well together. And he's very good at spawning, with words. Oh wait, that was spewing. Well, of course, spawning generally does consist of a sort of spewing type behaviour. I'm sure he'd be good at it. I mean, when your metaphorical nose is so little in comparison to your real nose that you feel compelled to memorialize the contrast in your internet nickname, spewing is probably the only sort of spawning to which you have recourse. Good night, she-satan. I wish you luck in your quest to find someone/thing to spawn with.
Re: The Sun and the Moon by Princess_Snowflake	11-Jan-04/4:23 PM
snowflake -- what the hell are you talking about?
Re: Come sleep with me by Freethinker1602	11-Jan-04/4:16 PM
When the thingy spawned inside you, what did it spawn with? I think a word is missing...
Re: In the Waiting Room by Elizabeth Bishop by Princess_Snowflake	11-Jan-04/4:04 PM
Is it appropriate to post other people's poetry on pomeranker? I don't think so, even if it's credited.
Re: Watching by DMonster	11-Jan-04/3:52 PM
Once in Vancouver I was working late in my office on Main Street, and I heard two drunks arguing. Not unusual for 3am Sunday morning, but, bored & needing a break, I went to the window to watch. In the sodium light before the store selling motorized wheelchairs and colostomy bags two stocky swarthy men argued. They stood close, as close as lovers or as friends when they are drunk. They looked alike, the way life-long friends look alike, or like lovers, or brothers. Their arguing escalated, and then abruptly the one shoved the other. He stumbled backwards, slipped and fell into the plate glass window of the medical supply store. He slid flat to the sidewalk and lay still and his blood ran away from him down the wet sidewalk and onto the road. I called 911 and went downstairs. The paramedics came and worked on the unconscious man. The other man knelt beside him and wept, "My brother, my brother." Three policemen held him back so the paramedics could work. When they had pressure bandages in place they loaded him in the ambulance truck and drove away. The other was taken away in a police car. He curled up, foetal in the back seat, uncuffed. The blood had run all across the street and down the hill, black in the peach-coloured light, and a firetruck came in a few minutes to hose it away. Now piss off.
Re: a comment on Cherry Blossoms (anti-haiku) by middenHeap	11-Jan-04/3:32 PM
lol, I think Spuna is my favourite pome of yours.