Re: a comment on Pacifics by zodiac	20-Mar-05/1:27 AM
Heh-heh, you're nutty. And if you're more than a precocious 17, I'll eat my own shmaugh. As for the poem, what can I say? It's about going to the ocean - a big fantasy of mine since I started living in the Middle Eastern desert. It might interest you to know the original version of this went, When we get out of here, I'll fuck You in an empty movie theatre. Is that any better?
Re: Camping, Volume 3 by jessicazee	18-Mar-05/10:05 PM
This is really very good.
Re: Zin/Enough/Things/Squeeze/Flow by gregsamsa222	18-Mar-05/10:04 PM
With the possible exception of the shoestring, nothing - no image, line, phrasing, structure, or anything else really - is very original here. You'd be great for writing a dictionary of poetic tropes.
Re: a comment on Drinking before noon with Bukowski by Beyond_Dreams	18-Mar-05/9:52 PM
I propose that's the typical American man because American women make it so easy to for us to be that way and still get laid.
Re: a comment on Sauvignon by Dovina	18-Mar-05/9:50 PM
Sorry. I'll rephrase: Do you personally know someone who would both a) claim to be knowledgeable about wines, and b) mistake a $2 bottle of wine for some aged French Sauvignon? Of course, that's not the point. The point is it's a metaphor for guys who are dogs, didn't I see the whole inserting his member bit, wasn't that clever? No, it wasn't particularly. And no, for a metaphor to work it's GOT TO WORK IN REAL LIFE (ie, wine) before working in metaphorland (ie, sex). Otherwise I could just write a poem about how my rugged good looks are a metaphor for my winning personality. Anyway, answer the question for a dinar. I know you think it's some clever word-trap, so I'll go first: No, I don't know anybody who would do both of those things.
Re: a comment on "America The Beautiful" by jroday	18-Mar-05/9:44 PM
Was it "Newsies"?
Re: Apostrophetic Loss by Dovina	18-Mar-05/9:41 PM
And can we get back to the poem for a minute? 1) There's no connection between inappropriate apostrophe use and "renegade poet comedians" on poemranker except that two (maybe three) of them sometimes write "you're" as "your". They don't do that because they've got a problem with apostrophes; they do it because they're making fun of everybody on the site who confuses them all the time. In any event, that wouldn't be an apostrophe problem; it would be an apostrophe-AND-misspelling problem. 2) Again, colloquialisms and apostrophes are not necessarily related. Wherever colloquialisms ARE written, they're written with apostrophes. In fact, most colloquialisms are written with more apostrophes than standard English, as exemplified by the colloquialisms at this helpful site, Black Country Sayings: http://www.sedgleymanor.com... 3) "Renegade poet comedians"??? It seems like just a little while ago you were calling them stuffy bastions of conservative poetry. Anyway, are you aware of what a TOTAL REVERSAL that is? And I bet if I comment on someone's punctuation today, you'll be back on how I'm keeping poetic experimenters down with my strict adherence to Victorian standards. Without realizing you've spun so fast, you've left your britches still traveling in the opposite direction. 4) "dim" was the word about six months ago. Since then I've gone through periods of using "bum", "Retard Islam", and god knows what else. So, way to keep up! Glad to hear "dim" hurt the most, though! 5) There is no incrowd. No one says anyone's uncool on this site. Except me - I say you're uncool. 6) Bow'ls is an appropriate (though archaic) usage. Otherwise you'd have to pronounce it with two syllables. Anyway, no one here invented it. 7) By the way, bow'ls is SO two years ago. 8) As far as I can recall, no "renegade poet comedian" on this site has ever used dropped g's (ie, "makin") for a gag. You, however did affect an accent for an entire comment once (here: http://www.poemranker.com/poem-details.jsp?id=119983), so are you insane? 9) I'd say the "it" part is about me since I overuse it in my comments here, but you'll just say I'm totally unsupported it's about someone else, so whatever. I do have a problem overusing it on this site. If that's what you're talking about, good one. 10) In short, this poem is totally crap, not a poem, and grounded in some lunatic assumption that everyone on this site except blacksoul, al-nafiysh, and Dan g-B is unreasonably out to get you. I'm serious, that's what lunatics think. If you're going to respond, "what a bunch of drivel i couldn't be bothered to read it or whatever", please don't. For one, it just makes you look like you're intimidated by reading more than a dozen words at a time. And for another thing, I went to the trouble of putting it in handy bullet-point format to avoid exactly that problem. Hey, thanks for paying attention!
Re: a comment on Apostrophetic Loss by Dovina	18-Mar-05/9:13 PM
Can I suggest something? The basis for your saying I don't make any sense is pretty much 'I, Dovina, say so.' The basis for your saying you're not sexist, racist, or anythingelse-ist is definitely 'I, Dovina, say so.' Doesn't that seem like a pretty weak thing to base your whole conception of things on?
Re: a comment on A Plea To The Mother(Mother Earth) by Rainbow_chaser	18-Mar-05/9:09 PM
Tripe, Dovina. Utter, utter tripe.
Re: "America The Beautiful" by jroday	16-Mar-05/9:36 PM
Trust me, America is the best thing ever.
Re: a comment on A Plea To The Mother(Mother Earth) by Rainbow_chaser	16-Mar-05/9:34 PM
Oh. I guess that explains how, although you've never admitted weakness (or even the slightest ignorance on any topic), you're the most consistently and soundly mocked user on poemranker.
Re: a comment on Burnt by Dreammaker1024	16-Mar-05/9:31 PM
Both of you are wrong. His name was Samsung.
Re: a comment on Apostrophetic Loss by Dovina	16-Mar-05/9:22 PM
Yes. Thank you.
Re: a comment on Sauvignon by Dovina	16-Mar-05/9:20 PM
Could you honestly not tell the difference between it and the two-dollar wine? Call me clothesminded, but it strikes me that for a metaphor to work, the real-world thing it's referencing (in this case, the actual wine,) has to work. I'd be hard-pressed to name someone (even among the Islams here) who couldn't tell the difference between $2 and $10 bottles of wine.
Re: a comment on You took my half dozen (revised) by poodietat	16-Mar-05/9:15 PM
Oh, come on! And speaking of grammatical accuracy, grammatical is spelled with two m's.
Re: Never Did You by Dreammaker1024	14-Mar-05/10:15 PM
PS-When did you realize it was all going wrong? Was it when he ruptured Ms Dupree's bag of waters with his teeth for a bizarre party gag?
Re: You took my half dozen (revised) by poodietat	14-Mar-05/10:09 PM
The most untrue part of this is "didn't remember how good it felt". It probably didn't. This is crap jock fantasy. Surprising considering the source.
Re: On Reading by the_poetess	14-Mar-05/9:57 PM
Please stop posting all your awful poems at the same time.
Re: Life by that_funny_girl	14-Mar-05/9:56 PM
Please stop posting all your awful poems at the same time.
Re: history by whispern_smoke_wisp	14-Mar-05/9:53 PM
The past is dirtier and quite a bit more smelly; the future has flying cars and onepiece spandex suits for everybody.