Re: a comment on Scapegoat by Dovina	26-Dec-04/4:55 AM
LOL
Re: a comment on Disable by blacksoul	26-Dec-04/4:53 AM
If you hadn't spent all of Freshman Comps doing whatever it was you were doing with yourself at the time, you'd know plagiarism doesn't mean what you think it does. This is plagiarism. Incidentally, that's my word, from my field. You will argue, but you might as well be walking into some laboratory, unequivocally trumping 'You're all wrong, this isn't rocket-fuel' and then drinking the whole beakerful. Oh, no, wait. You CAN disagree because we're talking about words, and words are everyone's friends. Bum.
Re: a comment on Math Poem by Dovina	26-Dec-04/4:47 AM
If you can cram into your head the idea that "magical" only roughly means "not abiding by logic or satisfactorily explainable by logical analysis", you'll be fine. But you can't and won't. Your bigger problem is that you apparently think (and have indeed railed on about many a time) that we only examine, criticise or otherwise deal with poemranker poems according to their logical merits. Don't say, I haven't said this! No, of course you haven't said exactly that. You said it much more bumblingly and malapropismed. The ideas that usually make it into poems ARE hard to critique, especially since they're usually some variation on "God is Love", "Love is both pleasurable and painful", or, and rarely, "Negroes are people too, though obviously a lesser sort." Since it's pretty obvious that a poem is crap without some kind of logic, it IS easy to critique the logic of a poem you don't like and safely conclude that it's crap. And most poems I don't like ARE illogical. Your other problem is thinking "logical" means something like 'involving numbers or the word Boolean' (cf. Shuushin's respectably logical poem, posted here.) Bow'ls. And another shameful stain on your much-besmirched record.
Re: a comment on Math Poem by Dovina	26-Dec-04/4:25 AM
Again you have said someone's saying opposites and attempting to unite them and then trumped loudly and unapologetically into the resulting vacuum. And never mind that the bulk of your "disses" depend on what you imagine are the negative connotations of the words "seems", "apparent" and "attempted", which really, in the long run, mean nothing as insults except to bums like you. Where you get the idea that I've "said opposites" is beyond me. Do you mean that the statements "You are a bum" and "You have a bum idea about poetry" are opposites? Consider that in the first statement bum means something like "a hobo or transient" and in the second means something like the sense of "a bum leg" or "a bum pitching arm". Now even you must see their only loosely related. As concerns your second question, a truckdriver like INTRANSIT would (and does) write poetry at best like a bad or unpracticed poet, and at best like a decent poet. That he writes poems about truckdriving is pretty irrelevant. He writes them like a poet talks about truckdriving, not like a truckdriver talks about truckdriving. Do you see the distinction? I bet not. Despite that the rest of your comment agrees, forgets that it contradicts your earlier position, and then trumps loudly. I've been bored.
Re: a comment on "oh" by fevriere	26-Dec-04/4:15 AM
The last of you to get run off of poemranker was run off for amock Booleanism. If I were you, I'd stop using some word I heard somewhere and thought it was cool (and who doesn't think 'Boolean' sounds cool?) until I figured out what it's all about. And it seems pretty unlikely you'll be able to manage that any time before the 28th century. Anyway, you've been warned.
Re: a comment on The Rockets’ Song by Dovina	23-Dec-04/5:16 AM
Considering the context, I think we have to assume the deer is in the throes of love, menopause, or both.
Re: a comment on Walk The Boy To Circles by horus8	23-Dec-04/5:11 AM
I just finished checking out your homepage. I was surprised to see that you're a male. On a similar note, I was surprised today to learn that Islams have Gays like other places, and they act like Gays in other places do.
Re: a comment on Andrew part II by Spindle	22-Dec-04/10:28 PM
You should write a happy poem about having AIDS.
Re: I have Learned to Let Go by Joe-joe	22-Dec-04/10:26 PM
Go back to wherever you were.
Re: a comment on I have Learned to Let Go by Joe-joe	22-Dec-04/10:24 PM
Only you think that's a contradiction.
Re: a comment on Twin Forks by auscot	22-Dec-04/10:21 PM
LOLTTM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh, my!
Re: a comment on Fugitively Speaking by Dovina	22-Dec-04/10:19 PM
This poem says nothing except that your as bad at psychology as most other things you've tried to write about here. And that despite your too often repeated (and probably new) aversion to God, your terribly, shamefully moral in the most conventional sense. And what part of 'jape' are you not understanding?
Re: a comment on Religious Slaughter by Beyond_Dreams	22-Dec-04/10:08 PM
I thought I was disagreeing with "if we are successful in Iraq it will be as much a victory for secularism as anything else". Now I'm not so sure :-(
Re: a comment on Math Poem by Dovina	22-Dec-04/10:07 PM
This is where you get yourself in trouble every time. I haven't said anything about you being a bum "and therefore having a bum idea of poetry." For one thing, being a bum doesn't mean you necessarily have a bum idea about poetry. Consider, for example: http://www.angelfire.com/folk/famoustramp/poems.html To rephrase. You are a bum. You have a bum idea about poetry. To wit, you clearly think poetry, that magical ephemeral gobble that it is, has something to do with almost anything except the skill and technique needed to write good poetry. Consider my original questions for the comment above: Q: How would a painter, as a poet, write poetry? A: Why the fuck wouldn't he write it like a poet?!?! You're essentially saying: Frank is a painter. Frank is a poet. Frank writes poetry like a painter, not like a poet. You say this because you think poetry takes little work except for tapping into the meatwell of your tender pre-menopausal heart. Anyone can do it. Or, you're bound to argue, so - Q: How would Van Gogh, as a painter, make a chair? A: Probably all bad, crooked and perspectiveless. You'd think that's cool, I'm sure. Until you tried to sit in it and fell on your detaching uterus. Or bum. In all honesty, Merry Christmas.
Re: Disable by blacksoul	22-Dec-04/5:41 AM
This is the best poem I've read in a while.
Re: Decline and Fall by auscot	22-Dec-04/5:39 AM
All of these descriptions apply to most animals in the wild. The only place they don't look like that is in zoos, where we gussy them up like underage Melbourne hookers according to our idea of what Nature's all about. Concerning the "metaphor": Yes.
Re: a comment on Religious Slaughter by Beyond_Dreams	22-Dec-04/5:35 AM
I'd like you to consider the following tidbit: My wife currently works in the Islam village of Ghowar, which, as it happens, is built on the Biblical towns of Sodom and Gomorrah. ONE OUT OF EVERY FOUR children there has a major mental disability, caused by massive inbreeding, crushing poverty, and the continuing wrath of Christ Our God a MILLION YEARS after the fact.
Re: a comment on Religious Slaughter by Beyond_Dreams	22-Dec-04/5:31 AM
I disagree. Secularism will be victorious, but only because secularism's SO FUCKING COOL. Take, for example, the internet cafe I'm sitting in now, where ten out of ten Islams are currently viewing different kinds of American hardcore porn. The appearance of an Arab-Western culture war (which is really big here, incidentally, despite porn-viewing) is bound to lead to some reactionary fundamentalism. In fact, it apparently already is. Twenty years ago, something like a tenth of the Muslim women in Jordan covered their heads. Today it's nine-tenths. Even given that part of that is the result of Jordanians returning from the Gulf after the first Gulf War, that's still a pretty big shift to the right. I figure it'll be followed by an even bigger slide to the left within a few years, provided the Middle East isn't simply swallowed by the earth for its colossal dimness, like it should be. I mean, Western Culture FUCKING RULES, am I right??!? IT'S A FUCKING STEAMROLLER, MAN!!!!
Re: a comment on Math Poem by Dovina	22-Dec-04/5:19 AM
You have a bum idea about poetry. About painting, sculpting, mechanics, and truck driving, too. Consider, by way of explanation, the following questions: How did Van Gogh, as a painter, make macaroni and cheese? How did Van Gogh, as a painter, use macaroni and cheese making in his painting? Thank you.
Re: a comment on Pinhole by Dovina	22-Dec-04/5:06 AM
Did you feel that stirring in your loins during the part of Lord of the Bums when Saruman the White tells his Negro army, "You shall eat man-flesh!"