Re: a comment on Noblesse Oblige by Christof	25-Sep-02/8:28 AM
I like this definition of it. As Mr. Cobain said; With the lights out it's less dangerous, here we are now entertain us, .....a denial , a denial, a denial.
Re: a comment on Noblesse Oblige by Christof	25-Sep-02/8:21 AM
I been looking for the answers for a long time now. I don't think it changes much among western cultures, Americans and Latinos have a huge problem with identify what emotions they're feeling, let alone expressing them. My son still cries every day. His friends are easily moved emotionally. I wonder which has more to do woth it, the sudden flood of testosterone or the culture telling them to be men. Mt boyfriend is a poster boy for the healthy American male. He's as tender as a lamb. I think I'm one of the few who has the previlege to know it. But around the house he's very emotional
Re: a comment on Noblesse Oblige by Christof	25-Sep-02/8:12 AM
But some men are thinkers, you for example. How do explain a thinker's fear of the self?
Re: a comment on Noblesse Oblige by Christof	25-Sep-02/8:08 AM
Can you? What's your take on it?
Re: a comment on Noblesse Oblige by Christof	25-Sep-02/8:04 AM
Is it because men are too sensitive to allow themselves to walk down that path, or because it's preceived asunmasculine to be affected?
Re: a comment on Noblesse Oblige by Christof	25-Sep-02/7:59 AM
There's most definitely a centre. Sweet and chewy. Just have to get through the glass exterior. I don't envy men.
Re: a comment on Noblesse Oblige by Christof	25-Sep-02/7:48 AM
Precarious? You seem grounded from here. Phd., job, wife. Are you a closet bohemian? Do you long for opium heavy orgies? Drunken brawling? Are you a English rose who longs for the gutter?
Re: Noblesse Oblige by Christof	25-Sep-02/7:37 AM
You're sick with talent. How do I learn to write about things outside myself? I love feeling incompetent. It motivates me.
Re: The Nights Draw In by Nicholas Jones	25-Sep-02/7:32 AM
I wish I could right as directly as you. You don't seem at all pretentious.
Re: WLPAN by Nicholas Jones	25-Sep-02/7:27 AM
I'm falling in love with you. You are one of the few best of luck to you.
Re: visitation by Nicholas Jones	25-Sep-02/7:21 AM
Thanks for the tour. You make me nosatalgic for a place I've never seen.
Re: The Left Book Club by Nicholas Jones	25-Sep-02/7:16 AM
Please write a short story.
Re: Horseflies and Mayflies, Incessant Today by Christof	24-Sep-02/9:16 AM
This poem makes me happy. I built a whole world around it. This and Butcher are my favorites. I hope your girl appreciates your poetry. I off to enlightened the masses. Today we're talking about violencia domestica. Have a lovely evening.
Re: Taffy by knickytoy	24-Sep-02/8:34 AM
I never did like Taffy, but I ate it. I like this poem.
Re: Since The Fall by harrytuttle	24-Sep-02/8:28 AM
L12 & 13 could be a poem on there own, Good. the last 2 lines are over used. I think the poem would do better without them.
Re: Morning conflict by INTRANSIT	24-Sep-02/8:19 AM
This is adorable. I don't understand the lack of triumph at the end.
Re: a comment on Unveiled by aperfecttool77	24-Sep-02/8:14 AM
I think I'm beginning to understand what your saying, if no one ever loved or appreciated VanGogh's paintings, would they be art? Good question, and you're right I don't have the answer. So this is a poem, simply because the author wrote it as won. I'm stubborn, but not unreasonable. I thank you for the discussion.
Re: a comment on Unveiled by aperfecttool77	24-Sep-02/12:13 AM
It's not about power. Expression is not poetry. No more then a wall well painted is art.
Re: a comment on Unveiled by aperfecttool77	24-Sep-02/12:08 AM
But even when they "tell it like it is" as you put it, they make it uniquely interesting. They don't just say what happened in some unstylized manner.
Re: a comment on Unveiled by aperfecttool77	24-Sep-02/12:02 AM
I cannot deny it holds no poetry for me. Some people hate any number of "artists" therefore their creations are not art to those that don't like them. I can believe I am the greateast artist in the world but til I have an audience, I'm shit. I can say this is not a poem. This is not a poem.