Re: Every Time by pletcgm	27-Oct-05/4:21 AM
I suggest you change the title of this poem to "Chills with Bumps". Otherwise, ace.
Re: Alert me by T. Jonathron Remp	27-Oct-05/12:53 PM
Is your name really JonathRon? How odd. It's like you're a science fiction character.
Re: brave new world still a bit timid by FreeFormFixation	29-Oct-05/2:23 AM
Anne Frank, with an E. Drop ever instance of 'each other' or 'one another'.
Re: brave new world still a bit timid by FreeFormFixation	29-Oct-05/2:24 AM
PS-Nice self-voting. You must be basking in all your made-up greatness.
Re: Poetry is where you find it by INTRANSIT	29-Oct-05/2:26 AM
I like it. I don't know why you switch hands.
Re: island nation by skaskowski	30-Oct-05/6:24 AM
skaskowski nation of islands (free verse) it placed the container of coffee in the cooker and it resupplied the flame in a fire then it placed in the bank in order to it completes in his sympathy and in order to it gives the attention it shakes this it should cases fast in the sleep it has the fracture of that relaxedly blooming her cheeks is licked this way and this gullible vloek ways should it is wes Anderson it is.
Re: The Gospel According to Zodiac by Dovina	1-Nov-05/3:09 AM
I live +7 hours from Eastern Time, +2 from Greenwich, which is the time on the comment-clock. I can honestly say I've never seen an episode of Spongebob in my life, so I'm rubber you're glue. I'm not even curious to hear how you figure this is relevant. -10-
Re: Stolen Innocence by TLRufener	1-Nov-05/3:44 AM
Innocence is overrated. And yet, if you think your life's ruined without it, you still have it.
regarding some deleted poem...	1-Nov-05/3:52 AM
- oval ling? - Why is Pollack in quotes? or Darfur, for that matter? - By your second stanza you seem to be against paying them attention dead simply because no one paid attention to them alive. Sorry, but that's silly. - The rest comes off as racist without any real sensitivity or focus on the issues. Whatever you respond to this, my answer is it's not racist the way you think I think it's racist. PS-Don't try to suggest lines like "Africa’s not economically viable" are spin or less-than-true by coupling them with actual lies and spin. I don't know what you could possibly have intended by that - or by any of this, for that matter.
regarding some deleted poem...	1-Nov-05/3:56 AM
"built" instead of "build". Line 3 should be past-tense. There should be a comma between "the black stick" and "the hollow stone".
Re: Lunch with the Beast by D. $ Fontera	1-Nov-05/4:29 AM
Is there any consensus about the psychology of alien abduction? Prior research has yielded a few insights, some of which are hardly surprising: People who believe they've been abducted tend to be fantasy-prone and eccentric, for one. On the other hand, they don't tend to be crazy. Most abductees are regular Joes, with decent jobs; though they have varying levels of education, they are predominantly white and middle class. In addition to an appetite for fantasy, researchers have identified several mental phenomena that often accompany a person's belief that she's been abducted: One is sleep paralysis, a relatively common experience during which the brain and the body desynchronize briefly before waking up. The body remains paralyzed (as it is during REM sleep) while the mind enters a state between sleeping and waking, in which some people hallucinate. The theory goes that a subset of the hallucinators, primed by popular culture to believe in visits from otherworldly kidnappers, interpret their experiences as abductions. The second contributing factor is the mind's capacity to create false memories, particularly under hypnosis—which is how many abduction "memories" have been retrieved. In fact, it was the study of false memory and trauma that led Clancy to the aliens. She started graduate school in the mid-'90s, as psychologists were duking it out over the validity of "recovered" memories, and signed on to assist two professors with a study of sexual-abuse victims. The professors gave subjects lists of words to memorize—"sugar," "candy," "sour," "bitter"—that were all related to another word, "sweet," that was not on the list. People who had allegedly recovered memories of sexual abuse while in therapy, it turned out, were more likely than a control group to remember "sweet" as having been on the list—that is, to produce false memories in the lab. Of course, this did nothing to prove whether the women's abuse memories were themselves false, and Clancy and her colleagues were roundly attacked by victims' advocates and other scientists. So, the researchers went looking for another set of subjects—people whose memories were assumed by most people to be false—and they wound up with alien abductees. Again, their work revealed that abductees were also more likely to misremember words than a control group. www.slate.com
Re: Forgiveness is Underrated by Miggy	1-Nov-05/11:14 AM
I would like this poem more if more of it was in shizzle. For example: I shizzled many an egizzle Who flizzled as hizzle as bald eagizlles With trizzles so hizzle to digizzle That I could not lizzle at rizzle Hizzle in makizzling pizzle to pizzle Mentizzle pictizzles the izzles wizzle to izzle.
Re: Letting go by daniella	1-Nov-05/11:18 AM
I thought a lot of this was good. The first two lines need to go, though. A total absence IS a void. That's what void means.
Re: The Gospel According to Zodiac by Dovina	1-Nov-05/11:38 AM
PS-The metaphor breaks down where you have God wearing pants. PPS-Also where you have Sponge Bob Square Pants' followers be "Square Pants Bobbers". That would make the followers of Jesus Christ King of Kings "King Kinged Christers".
Re: miss drunk muffet by calliope	3-Nov-05/3:27 AM
Great. I have no idea what you're talking about.
Re: solving the world's problems through poetry by skaskowski	3-Nov-05/3:27 AM
The first two lines are good. The last three too.
Re: fumes by FreeFormFixation	3-Nov-05/3:29 AM
A cross between Nirvana's 'Polly' and Beck's 'Fumes'. Not as good as either.
Re: ~PROM MEANS 2 ME~ by T. Jonathron Remp	3-Nov-05/3:33 AM
In all seriousness, what do you do to get slapped for asking a girl to a dance? My theory: Pull out your wang and just say, 'Huh? Huuhhh?'
regarding some deleted poem...	3-Nov-05/3:34 AM
I maintain that you'd be a very good poet except for not being born two hundred years ago. As it is, you're not writing about anything we know.
Re: Posted Pelicans by Dovina	6-Nov-05/4:22 AM
Nice. Tre Cali. It's interesting that you used an ungainly creature to represent settledness. I mean that as a compliment, and see how it works, but I always think pelicans look like they're about to fall over.