Re: a comment on Instructions to a Sculptor by Christof	1-Oct-02/7:54 AM
o.k. I'll be a jerk to you and start being nice to acertaincontempt. This poem is a big piece of crap.
Re: Instructions to a Sculptor by Christof	1-Oct-02/7:51 AM
I believe the flaw is your over-sized heart. I really enjoy the rhymn scheme.
Re: I Will Stay in Bed Today by jessicazee	30-Sep-02/6:48 PM
I think this poem captures the protaganists predicament quite well.
Re: Dear Ms. Sexton by <{Baba^Yaga}>	30-Sep-02/6:25 PM
I liked the poem. Especially, of course, the title and it's relation to the 2nd to last stanza. The comments are well-written, funny/scary and I wish I had just a smidgen of your talent for pulling things out of your ass. "Look mommy the entire L.A. philharmonic"! Hows baby^yaga feeling today. no more 104 temp?
Re: Married by INTRANSIT	30-Sep-02/6:04 PM
Tether is real. All else is idealism. Plus it brings the visual of holding on and and helping them, even if it means fighting the prevailing winds. Also it is love that keeps me tethered. Otherwise I'd have drifted out into the stratosphere years ago, or worse yet, gotten stuck in a tree. So you're leaving truck-driving? I hope it works out well for you.
Re: At The Sloane Slattery on Saturday by Limness	30-Sep-02/2:18 PM
Nice rythmn, and images. S3 is very endearing. What's a Slattery?
Re: a comment on A Sign on a Giant Donut at a Twenty Four Hour a Day Donut Shop Overlooking Pacific Coast Highway in Sunset Beach California at Eight in the Evening on September Twenty Fourth Two-Thousand and Two by Dark Angle	30-Sep-02/2:05 PM
Well it's only speculation. One of the reasons I love Mr. Brautigan. He will take you along this pleasing road of insightful prose and then drop some flunky weirdness into it. He was a child of the times.
Re: At The Sloane Slattery on Saturday by Limness	30-Sep-02/2:00 PM
Belching is mis-spelled.
Re: A Sign on a Giant Donut at a Twenty Four Hour a Day Donut Shop Overlooking Pacific Coast Highway in Sunset Beach California at Eight in the Evening on September Twenty Fourth Two-Thousand and Two by Dark Angle	30-Sep-02/1:55 PM
Read Richard Brautigan. He would have given this poem a 10.
Re: Wednesday's Breaking by poetandknowit	30-Sep-02/1:36 PM
Left me with a sad creepy feeling.
Re: Liberty bells & Disney Land by horus8	30-Sep-02/1:15 PM
Very powerful towards the end. I like the way this thing builds. Line 7 seems to have a grammatical error of some kind, or I just don't get it.
Re: Bobbing for Apples by Rex Karrs	28-Sep-02/9:20 AM
Not as good as your 1st one, but still excellent. Fallow is a favorite word. Welcome.
Re: a comment on Witch to Wicca by Lenore	27-Sep-02/8:39 PM
My sister's a wiccan. She burned her apartment down 9 yrs. ago. She had a beautiful picture window in her bedroom. She placed her crystal ball in front of it, and one fine summer's afternoon it lit the bed on fire. Luckily the whole building didn't go down.
Re: a comment on Witch to Wicca by Lenore	27-Sep-02/7:51 PM
It seems I have not read "Stranger in a Strange Land". Iwent to the bookstore and looked at it but it was not the book I thought it was.
Re: a comment on Persephone by Lynn	27-Sep-02/5:01 PM
It's a book of poems dealing exclusively with the retelling of fairytales. I think it's still out of print, but every library has at least one copy.
Re: a comment on Witch to Wicca by Lenore	27-Sep-02/12:20 PM
I have a terrible memory. Mores the reason for my gratitude. I'll be heading for the used book store to pick up a copy, my son and I can read it in bed together.
Re: a comment on Witch to Wicca by Lenore	27-Sep-02/12:12 PM
Yes yes yes. Noones invoked that name for years! Robert Heinlein and me all of 10 reading in the Avacado, hording salt, using the closet for a cave. Bless you for the gift of a forgotten memory. what is Gr0k?
Re: a comment on Witch to Wicca by Lenore	27-Sep-02/11:55 AM
grOk? Never thirsty always hungry.
Re: a comment on Witch to Wicca by Lenore	27-Sep-02/11:36 AM
No not at all. I'm using the double image of the witch using fire and being consumed by it. Her magic back-"firing" on her. Plus I think a witch my not be happy with your confrontation at the end. I haven't worked out a meaning yet, exactly. I believe you & I have some philosophies in common.
Re: Black Heart by ThoughtfulSoul	27-Sep-02/11:31 AM
All my love to you. My son boxes his friends on the lawn, It works wonders for them. I'm not advocating violence but it seems to me boys need the outlet. So far it's always ended positively. I like your poem.