Re: a comment on Library and Information Centre by Nicholas Jones	24-Jan-03/7:45 AM
Yes, actually it does. I'm in the library, in the postgraduate (i.e students who already have a degree and are pursuing further studies) only computer room. Please also note the start in lower case while the very word PC forces upper case letters to be used.
Re: Jesus was the Antichrist by TheDevil	23-Jan-03/8:14 AM
Christ! The post-modernity mades my legs ache. Say hello to Jacques for me.
Re: Death by dougsoderstrom	16-Jan-03/7:47 AM
Hello Professor Doug - this isn't really a haiku, but who cares? There should be more religious verse on poemranker. Maybe I will try to write some.
Re: not even soup by <~>	16-Jan-03/6:57 AM
Very nice indeed, especially the last line; physical bodily processes have their effect on psychology - President Nasser nationalised the Suez Canal because he had toothache, or something. I like soup, especially tomato, but I a bagel for lunch today, which I filled with brie and put in a hot oven for fifteen minutes, and ate with cranberry sauce.
Re: a comment on Evensong by Nicholas Jones	16-Jan-03/6:50 AM
Actually, I really don't like Radiohead. Everybody went on about how experimental Kid A was, but they nicked it all from Squarepusher and Add N To (X). Ripping off the avant-garde is not being progressive. Anyway, I'm not sure if your comments are taking the piss or not, but here are some facts: 1) The person in this poem is not me 2) I am a regular churchgoer 3) I am in the 23rd year of my life 4) I talked to my parents on the telephone last night. I think you live in your own tiny little world, but it sounds more fun and less depressing than mine.
Re: a comment on Welsh Landscape Part One by Nicholas Jones	16-Jan-03/6:44 AM
I think you have too much time on your hands, but thank you for choosing to spend it with my poems. Cwmystwyth is pronounced something like Come-ust-with, with the emphasis on the ust. It's easy really.
Re: a comment on A Hancock Fanatic Writes by Nicholas Jones	16-Jan-03/6:41 AM
I'm glad you like the poem; it does tend towards the flippant. I do worry that anyone who isn't obsessed with Hancock's Half Hour probably won't get a lot of it. Also, Henry's Cat probably never made it out of Britain, but he was one hell of a mellow, yellow feline.
Re: a comment on A Hancock Fanatic Writes by Nicholas Jones	16-Jan-03/6:38 AM
I like a bit of good, honest, vulgarity. Like those naughty seaside postcards I used to sneakily look at as a child when on holiday in Scarborough.
Re: Fuck by Bobjim	15-Jan-03/3:33 AM
I'm in a university library. I'll probably be thrown out for displaying that many obscenities. Did you paste, or write each one by hand. Sixpence a week for cheek, Mr. Morel!
Re: a comment on In the Quiet of the Night a Tree Gently Shakes by Nicholas Jones	14-Jan-03/7:05 AM
I'm somewhat bemused by this comment. I've not heard of Local H - are they from one of our former colonies in the Americas?
Re: profile of an abuser by inka	10-Jan-03/4:02 AM
I like the twee self censorship of blocking out your own swearwords. My, how Derrida would laugh!
Re: Blues by Christof	7-Jan-03/6:04 AM
Ah - the old post-Christmas depression? This has intensity yet comedy. I hope it is not too autobiographical.
Re: a comment on I Retry My Resolve by Nicholas Jones	4-Jan-03/4:39 PM
Should be I shall be distrusted. It's a shapshot, a moment in time. Why should there be a message or a story? It can just be a feeling.
Re: a comment on I Retry My Resolve by Nicholas Jones	3-Jan-03/4:29 PM
I like the repetition, but I can see it might be a bit much. I think there's a lot that needs changing.....it's something I wrote years ago that came into my head today, and this is all I remember.
Re: a comment on Recent History by Nicholas Jones	3-Jan-03/2:29 PM
Problem is, I like the politics. But then I'd read about politics for fun. I like nothing better than arguing about it in the pub. One day, I'll write a political poem that isn't too sloganeering.
Re: a comment on The Canvassers by Nicholas Jones	26-Dec-02/1:42 PM
Thank you for reading my poem on Boxing Day. I hope you had a very merry Christmas. As regards hope, it's not really my thing. The poem is about the attempt to fabricate hope, and the failure to do so, and so it's not really a hopeful poem at all. It's all very political. The line 'our ideology is not a joke' always seemed very clumsy to me (it's hard to read with the correct rhythm) but absolutely vital - this is about people who believe in what they do, but realise it's very, very hard.
Re: a comment on Popaul by Nicholas Jones	20-Dec-02/1:06 PM
My Phd thesis is about a Welsh poet called Harri Webb. He wrote mainly in English, but also sometimes in Welsh, and his poetry is characterised by a strong political commitment to socialist and nationalist beliefs, and also a strong vein of humour. I actually put some of his poems on poemranker, under the name 'Gwyrfab' (a pseudonym often used by Webb) to see what people would say. I suppose that's technically against the rules, but I never pretended I wrote them. Merry Christmas, everybody, by the way.
Re: a comment on Popaul by Nicholas Jones	20-Dec-02/1:02 PM
Popaul is the name of the character in the film. He's a butcher and a murderer. He seduces the schoolteacher by cooking her a fine leg of lamb. Sounds like a good technique to me; my culinary abilities are excellent.
Re: a comment on Popaul by Nicholas Jones	17-Dec-02/10:57 AM
Thank you for this barbed compliment. When I joined the site, I put on the best of my poetry from the last five years - just the ones I liked. Now, I put on most of what I write, including stuff that isn't finished. That's why not all my poems are very good.
Re: The Elephant Olympics by Yardbird	11-Dec-02/2:36 AM
This is very funny indeed. But the medication joke is a cheap ending not up to the standard of the rest.