Re: a comment on Adibe's Song (third-time's-the-charm revision, less Spanish) by zodiac	4-Jun-05/6:43 AM
Thanks.
Re: a comment on Snow by lil_evil_boi	4-Jun-05/6:41 AM
re: "u cant actually smell the sweetness of the snow" - Yes, of course you can. And snow does smell sweet, like wet mittens. And even if it didn't you could still smell its sweetness. And how many users are you? I count three.
Re: a comment on Adibe's Song (third-time's-the-charm revision, less Spanish) by zodiac	4-Jun-05/6:16 AM
Hope it's better now. I've written about ten times more of this than I've posted. Shamefully.
Re: a comment on Adibe's Song (third-time's-the-charm revision, less Spanish) by zodiac	4-Jun-05/6:12 AM
1) The bars were closed. True story. 2) I hope so. No, I know so. I have a hard time thinking of good Spanish names. When I need one, I think of someone I met in Mexico whose name never made it in an Enrique Iglesias song. 3) I dunno. Spanish speakers don't capitalize it. 4) No. The hacienda's where the big boss lives, the residencia's where exchange students and bored Mexico City kids live. 5) In that earlier version, Heaven (Cielita) was a girl who lived at a black magic store. True story. Incidentally, the main work of the staff at the black magic store I knew was carving Jesuses with enormous phalluses. I dropped all that from the poem though. For the better. 6) They're revolutionaries. 7) I hope it's better now.
Re: a comment on Applicative-Order Fixed-Point Operator by -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I.	3-Jun-05/5:47 AM
Can I ask you a question? I have a square-bottomed container resting on its bottom, which is square. The bottom is 1 foot by 1 foot. How much beer would just cover the bottom? What if you were using a superfine atomiser-sprayer capable of spraying a layer of beer 1 molecule thick?
Re: a comment on Life and Love by windyone	3-Jun-05/5:45 AM
10 and 9.
Re: a comment on Life and Love by windyone	3-Jun-05/5:36 AM
I don't think it makes any sense without the pleasure of analyzing included.
Re: Heaven or Hell by lil_evil_boi	2-Jun-05/3:55 AM
The best part was where you described heaven as "heavenly" and hell as "hellish".
Re: a comment on Slowing - or, A Love Poem with Eggs and Short Lines by zodiac	1-Jun-05/10:07 PM
Well, the ending is her talking, the rest is the guy. Does that help? Or - I meant the part beginning with the second "My love" to be a different day. For my part, yes, there was a change of heart. Right around the dress-doffing and kissing part.
Re: a comment on Applicative-Order Fixed-Point Operator by -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I.	1-Jun-05/10:03 PM
What an astonishingly ladylike question you've picked for a rebuttal, though! "Just cover the bottom"? What the fuck does that mean?
Re: a comment on Applicative-Order Fixed-Point Operator by -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I.	1-Jun-05/10:02 PM
In a frictionless world, zero.
Re: a comment on Acrylic French Nails by Dovina	1-Jun-05/9:59 PM
PS-"complemented" is clever as it is, but are you sure you didn't mean "complimented"?
Re: a comment on Acrylic French Nails by Dovina	1-Jun-05/9:58 PM
Oh. Just out of curiosity, why didn't you have this experience when you were, like, 10?
Re: a comment on Nesting Instinct of Women by Dovina	1-Jun-05/9:53 PM
I probably said that, actually. I was in a hurry typing.
Re: a comment on Life and Love by windyone	1-Jun-05/9:51 PM
Would you take the above a step farther and agree that, on average, the analyzing person leads a less pleasurable life than the non-analyzing person? Would you consider testing that notion? ***ZODIAC'S SIMPLE TEST*** 1) On a scale of 1-10, 1 being 'never' and 10 being 'constantly', how much of the time would you say you analyze things? 2) On a scale of 1-10, 1 being 'not at all pleasurable' and 10 being 'extremely pleasurable', how pleasurable would you say your life is? For my part, I promise to answer fairly.
Re: a comment on Even the score by Miggy	31-May-05/5:48 AM
Trying to imagine Miggy as a voluptuous blonde with blue&black lipstick and lots of tattoos just caused me to "expend myself".
Re: Nesting Instinct of Women by Dovina	31-May-05/5:47 AM
"Virtue" - Cynthia Huntington All the houses are white; all the yards have yellow flowers attended by bees. If you must be born female try coming as an insect - they have the edge. Bees spoil their little brothers just so long and then they're through. The queen has a hundred lovers, her daughters, none. A nation of sisters lives forever: wasps and ants. Here in New England you'll come across old family plots - farmers with two or three wives set down in a row; prayers and faint praise for the good woman, wife, mother: modest and weary, homely as a shoe. How she stirred and kneaded, baked, sewed, scrubbed, and bore down. I let the ants come in my kitchen and carry off bread crumbs. Girl soldiers, all discipline and grit. Flies buzz the heads of stupefied cows, up to their knees in yarrow, hissing: "wake up, wake up!" Their teats swell, heavy with milk, long after their done being anyone's mother. In the corner of the garage a spider devours her mate, wraps up what she can't finish and hangs it to dry. Mosquitos murmur for blood in the high grasses. A car door slams down the street. Milk and honey, butter and jam, what virtue in living as a slave? In the kitchen I unpack groceries: sweet peas, cider, wild honey, pears burst from the flowering branch. (copied without permission from Poetry Daily, www.poems.com)
Re: a comment on Nesting Instinct of Women by Dovina	31-May-05/5:41 AM
Misguided doesn't mean "not guided", it means "guided in the wrong way". So I didn't say you were "not guided"; you did. And maybe I meant a "a thoroughly misguided pen, guided wrongly by you". If it doesn't make any more sense that way it's because I was really trying not to insult you or your writing. I was speaking hypothetically; and notice I said "someone", not "I".
Re: Acrylic French Nails by Dovina	31-May-05/5:36 AM
I have to admit, it was a bit of a letdown getting to the end only to find the meaning was "she employs devices to look different". Well, I mean, duh. For one, everyone employs devices all the time to look different from how they'd look nude. For another thing, I imagine if she wanted to look different without employing devices, she'd have to (a) practice holding some really distinctive facial expression or posture all the time (which is a device when you get down to it) or (b) accept that she just looks different enough as she is, unless she's an identical twin or something (which we both know is kind of crap.) And would I be totally wrong if I guessed you really meant "she employs devices to look ugly or different from me"?
Re: a comment on A soldiers life by closeup	31-May-05/5:26 AM
An advice: Don't write poems in which you're a dead soldier. You're about the tenth poemranker user to do that this month.