Re: At The Station by Christof	23-Jan-04/6:34 AM
Very evocative. There's always an old man drinking lager. Railways stations are places of excitement, because they lead to travel and all sorts of possibilities, but also they are dark, cold, wet and depressing. Oh, and bugger grammar, it's not important.
Re: high school tragedy number six by FreeFormFixation	15-Dec-03/9:49 AM
The first verse reminds me of the band At the Drive-In, whose lyrics are notable for their ragged, stream of nonsence style.
Re: Tribute to "The Cow" by eyrbare	26-Nov-03/7:37 AM
They aren't the same variety. That's why they have different names. Jerseys make great cream, but their beef, though tasty, is unsaleable due to the yellowness of the fat.
Re: Saint Peggy Seeger by Retaliate	4-Nov-03/8:56 PM
Who the fuck is Peggy Seeger? Is she related to the mighty Pete Seeger? Otherwise, very nice.
Re: a comment on Texas by Nicholas Jones	3-Nov-03/7:32 PM
I actually saw the depository and the knoll today, and it was amazing. Nobody needs to apologise to the Welsh, except perhaps Llywelyn the Last for being killed and Henry VII for selling out to the English. Oh, and Margaret Thatcher, Winston Churchill (for sending in the troops to Tonypandy in 1910), the Normans, Henry V, etc. Everyone should live in a terraced house, because it's fun to drag the rubbish right through the lounge from the back yard to the street every week.
Re: a comment on Texas by Nicholas Jones	3-Nov-03/6:31 AM
I'm in Denton, Texas. I've been to a conference and given a paper on postcolonialism in Welsh literature. Tomorrow I'm giving a lecture on twentieth century Welsh poetry at the University of North Texas. America is great, although I keep looking the wrong way for cars and nearly getting run over. Today I hope to see the schoolbook depository and the grassy knoll, and so fulfil my dreams.
Re: a comment on Texas by Nicholas Jones	2-Nov-03/8:25 PM
Also, I picked fundamentalism just because I like using long words in haikus.
Re: a comment on What went wrong with America? (An essay) by Jeremi B. Handrinos	2-Nov-03/8:16 PM
No, after you Cecil.
Re: a comment on Texas by Nicholas Jones	2-Nov-03/8:13 PM
Yes, this is about cliches. But I am actually currently in Texas (this is my first visit to the US) and there are lots of churches and Mexican food is very popular. This isn't a disparagement, just an observation. Everybody I have met has been great.
Re: a comment on 3am by Nicholas Jones	23-Oct-03/4:55 AM
I don't live in Botswana. I live in Wales. You can listen to the BBC world service at night after Radio 4 shuts down. I listen to it when I have bouts of insomnia. On a particularly restless night I might hear the news headlines four or five times. So I learn a lot about world affairs. Though once I woke up convinced I'd heard that Yasser Arafat had been assasinated, but it turned out to be a dream. Also, I love making crap music on my PC. It's such a democratic medium - anyone with a computer and some cheap software can sample away to their hearts content.
Re: a comment on 3am by Nicholas Jones	22-Oct-03/6:57 AM
So what time is it where you are? Although poemranker claims I posted this at 6.30am, it actually almost three o'clock in the afternoon now.
Re: Evel Knievel's last bananna split    by horus8	22-Oct-03/6:34 AM
Did you know Knievel is actually his real surname?
Re: Reptilian by Christof	22-Oct-03/6:33 AM
Very Freudian. We all know what snakes represent. You set up a pleasant scene and then twist and undermine it - very nicely done.
Re: The Business of Church by <{Baba^Yaga}>	23-Sep-03/3:31 AM
Unpleasant as always. Not a good example of the genre.
Re: a comment on Lets Do Lunch (At Ground Zero) by scitz	12-Sep-03/2:35 AM
"I have nothing against Jews but at the end of the day they are dominant in ALL business interests from fabrics to weaponry" Any phrase that starts 'I'm not racist / misogynistic / anti-semitic BUT' is inevitably evidence of racism, misogyny or anti-semitism. The poem is incredibly offensive, and your justification scarcely less so. I absolutely believe in freedom of speech, so you have the right to say what you like, but I have the right to disagree. You can write far better poems than this. Try harder.
Re: Lets Do Lunch (At Ground Zero) by scitz	11-Sep-03/7:58 AM
This is not clever, not funny, but anti-semitic. We don't need bullshit like this on poemranker.
Re: a comment on Failure by Nicholas Jones	9-Sep-03/3:49 AM
Thank you for your comment. I wrote this in five minutes when I was very pissed off because I'd set off for a long bike ride but I got a puncture about a hundred yards from my front door and had to go back. It could be expanded, I suppose it's really just the beginning of an idea, but then it wouldn't be a perfect record of how I felt at that time anymore.
Re: a comment on A Lovely Surprise by ?-Dave_Mysterious-?	9-Sep-03/3:46 AM
Yes. But it worked for Lacan.
Re: a comment on Where are my Spectacles? by ?-Dave_Mysterious-?	9-Sep-03/3:45 AM
Surely a cheesemonger might have a cheese shed to store the cheese not currently on display in his shop? I'm sure he would have spare supplies round the back.
Re: A Lovely Surprise by ?-Dave_Mysterious-?	6-Sep-03/4:40 AM
Unpleasant. Have you ever thought that you are stuck in what Freud described as the anal-fixation stage?