Re: Reason for being late by Normo	9-Oct-02/5:15 AM
Amusing. Why not send some flour through the post so it looks like anthrax, and work gets evacuated? Note to CIA man reading this: That's a joke.
Re: Creativity. by Blue Magpie	9-Oct-02/5:11 AM
Some lovely couplets. Yes, creativity can be a necessary part of life - but surely you have the tools of the poet?
Re: Friendship by Blue Magpie	9-Oct-02/5:08 AM
Very nice. It makes a change from all the people showing off how many rude words they know.
Re: Second Class? by lukehanney	9-Oct-02/5:06 AM
There's a crack up in the ceiling, And the kitchen sink is leaking. Out of work and got no money, A Sunday joint of bread and honey. What are we living for? Two-roomed apartment on the second floor. No money coming in, The rent collector's knocking, trying to get in. We are strictly second class, We don't understand, (Dead end!) Why we should be on dead end street. (Dead end!) People are living on dead end street. (Dead end!) Gonna die on dead end street. Dead end street (yeah) Dead end street (yeah) On a cold and frosty morning, Wipe my eyes and stop me yawning. And my feet are nearly frozen, Boil the tea and put some toast on. What are we living for? Two-roomed apartment on the second floor. No chance to emigrate, I'm deep in debt and now it's much too late. We both want to work so hard, We can't get the chance, (Dead end!) People live on dead end street. (Dead end!) People are dying on dead end street. (Dead end!) Gonna die on dead end street. Dead end street (yeah) Dead end street (yeah) (Dead end!) People live on dead end street. (Dead end!) People are dying on dead end street. (Dead end!) Gonna die on dead end street. Dead end street (yeah) Dead end street (yeah) Dead end street (yeah) Head to my feet (yeah) Dead end street (yeah) Dead end street (yeah) Dead end street (yeah) How's it feel? (yeah) How's it feel? (yeah) Dead end street (yeah) Dead end street (yeah)
Re: Second Class? by lukehanney	9-Oct-02/4:57 AM
Are you Ray Davies? If not, nice bit of plagiarism!
Re: a comment on Obsessions by Nicholas Jones	9-Oct-02/4:56 AM
It's not actually a poem about the rhombus faced singer. I don't really know what it's about. There is simply something pleasingly lyrical about the word.
Re: a comment on My cousin's baby sitter. by Bachus	8-Oct-02/4:47 AM
I love your casual xenophobia. By the way, pants refers to underwear, and is a generic term to mean, roughly, 'crap'. The correct term is glove puppet, and, oh, that was a joke. A bit like your poetry! Oh, the irony.
Re: a comment on WLPAN by Nicholas Jones	8-Oct-02/4:39 AM
What's it like being you? Hectic, I guess.
Re: Remembering You by dalva	7-Oct-02/8:48 AM
Sorry, but it doesn't do it for me. And I'm in a mean mood today. Too diffuse - try making it shorter and more intense.
Re: The Phoebe Snow by horus8	7-Oct-02/8:46 AM
Pitiful. Sorrry.
Re: Bottom by ThoughtfulSoul	7-Oct-02/8:41 AM
It is lonely at the bottom. Being lonely means that nothing cna be a comfort. Sometimes having no punctutation is good, but here it isn't.
Re: Shadows by darren67	6-Oct-02/4:37 AM
Are you Darren Day?
Re: My cousin's baby sitter. by Bachus	6-Oct-02/4:34 AM
This is pants. Really, really pants. I'm very bored of people using sex to try and be shocking. Very tedious.
Re: love song by <~>	6-Oct-02/4:24 AM
I think this is nicely shaped prose rather than poetry, but that's an observation rather than a criticism. Very nice, but I don't like the word f-hole.
Re: In Full Stop by vulcan	4-Oct-02/7:29 AM
Mysterious. Not bad.
Re: Farewell Song by jaalko	4-Oct-02/7:27 AM
I think this has been judged unfairly. If you're strict on your plagiarism thing, the Waste Land is all stolen, and that's the greatest poem ever.
Re: a comment on Possibilities by Nicholas Jones	4-Oct-02/7:19 AM
Papa Lazarou was very scary. Perhaps I would like the office more if I'd ever worked in an office. You're my wife now, Dave.
Re: Down Home by <~>	4-Oct-02/7:16 AM
I'm always a sucker for poems where the form is linked to the meaning. Dylan Thomas wrote a poem called 'Vision and Prayer' where the stanzas are in diamond and hourglass shapes.
Re: a comment on Possibilities by Nicholas Jones	4-Oct-02/7:15 AM
Yes, it probably should be quiver, but that doesn't rhyme.
Re: a comment on Possibilities by Nicholas Jones	4-Oct-02/7:12 AM
Stockport has the largest parish church in England. And William Cobbett, who repealed the Corn Laws or something, was MP. Oh, and Fred Perry was born there. What a place. By the way, I never really got the office. It's very clever, but just not funny. The League of Gentlemen is much better.