Re: A new leaf by Damien	21-Apr-05/6:42 AM
This poem is brilliant. Of course, you need to have read http://www.poemranker.com/poem-details.jsp?id=123683, and seen the little interplay of comments twixt sonawrote & damien to fully appreciate it as an extended double entendre.
Re: a comment on Gaping Hole by sonawrote	21-Apr-05/4:26 AM
well, although my physical appearance is a little below average, moron is unfortunately completely incorrect. I did win that genetic lottery, somewhat, though I have frivolously pissed away that blessing over the years. In fact, I took an iq test last year in which I totally bombed and scored only 139. It's a good thing I never got around to joining Mensa or I would now have to suffer the embarassment of having my ass kicked out.
Re: a comment on Gaping Hole by sonawrote	21-Apr-05/4:22 AM
Woah...imagine my colossal surprise to discover the butt of the joke doesn't find the joke funny. And you are correct, actually. In terms of physical appearance, I was definitely not a winner of any genetic lottery. How interesting to discover your primary way of judging people is how pretty their face is. I'd never have guessed that either, from the web page where you scale the picture of yourself to make you look skinny (though oddly rubbery, to be honest, sort of like the stretchy girl in the incredibles when she is stretching. Is that look in style now?)
Re: a comment on Trying to get signed? by Damien	20-Apr-05/2:36 AM
hey! just because I have *cough* several names doesn't mean I'm not a real being!
Re: a comment on ab*defg by Goad	19-Apr-05/5:14 PM
Done. Stop being schizoid and go to bed.
Re: a comment on f*ckyouoldmenandyourrules by Damien_	19-Apr-05/3:25 PM
What about cleaning out my closet? Setting aside the vitriol, just the sheer technical excellence of the language is exhilarating.
Re: a comment on f*ckyouoldmenandyourrules by Damien_	19-Apr-05/2:49 PM
Eminem is an extraordinarily talented poet. I know it will be considered very uncool for me to say so, but he really is. I don't like rap much, and when he's doing the whole gang bang thing I think it's boring. But some of his lyrics? breathtaking skill with word-smithing.
Re: a comment on Reincarnation by Dovina	19-Apr-05/7:20 AM
I'm certain he meant it sincerely, because it's an excellent -- and interesting -- anwswer. That's what's intriguing about you: this mixing of comments that are mature, astute, thoughtful with comments that are head-scratchingly inane/bizarre or just plain wrong.
Re: a comment on My Dumb Choice...YOU by sonawrote	19-Apr-05/6:35 AM
"Can you say something good about anything. " --yes, and I do. You wouldn't know anything about it though, because you never bothered to look at anybody's posting history to get an idea of what they were about before you started pissing on them. (Or licking their ass, for that matter, lol. lolololol. lol.)
Re: My Dumb Choice...YOU by sonawrote	19-Apr-05/4:37 AM
Ok, please explain this c -> * for me. You're choosing to use the word fuck in something you wrote. You're posting it on a board that has absolutely no censorship, ever. WHAT. is. the. purpose. of spelling it fu*k instead of fuck? What does it accomplish? what does it do for you? I'm genuinely curious. Is there something really really wrong or politically incorrect with the letter c, that I'm just not aware of?
Re: Gaping Hole by sonawrote	19-Apr-05/4:27 AM
I've heard there are exercises/meditations you can do that will cause the gaping hole to gradually tighten back up again. That way it's nice and snug when someone new comes along.
Re: a comment on Perfect Answer by Alizarin_Crimson	18-Apr-05/3:23 PM
not that it answers it, but that reflect all you want it's the best answer you're getting.
Re: a comment on Perfect Answer by Alizarin_Crimson	18-Apr-05/3:21 PM
how do you get the didacticicism when the line before is "ACQUIESCing to a TOKEN cadence?" Since you know what didactic means, I have to assume you know what "acquiesce" & "token" mean -- does the suggestion that the birds' whole existence is helpless surrender to a rote living out of patterns for which there isn't a rational, external logical answer but which is a priori & pervasive not rule out for you the idea that the narrator is didactically urging us to "be cause"??????? <scratches head and looks disgruntled>
Re: a comment on Birmingham gardens by INTRANSIT	18-Apr-05/2:59 PM
Perhaps I'm really stretching, but is the end a homage to that famous hemingway short about the guy going fishing where he adroitly captures the shellshocked emotions of a returning war vet by carefully never mentioning them -- or any other emotion, and giving every detail exactly the same note right up to the end? this pome has a bit of that feel for me.
Re: 15 Minute poem by Damien	18-Apr-05/2:51 PM
Well, even though your grammar's terrible, you do certainly know how to rhyme. Many of the lines not only rhyme on the ends but have rhymes inside them! With all the breathtaking double rhymes I was getting my hopes up for a triple rhyme before the end...but perhaps you'll pull that off in your next opus.
Re: Swans by Alizarin_Crimson	18-Apr-05/2:46 PM
I actually really like the more more more -- it makes the whole pome for me. Because with the "they too must make their honest living" you wander dangerously close to hallmark/maudlin and the more more more yanks the reader back violently from that precipice.
Re: a comment on Trying to get signed? by Damien	18-Apr-05/5:18 AM
How come you say "fuck" all the time, but never actually write it out as "fuck"? Is it in case Jesus is watching? Just curious.
Re: Holding on for Jesus by Everyone	17-Apr-05/10:55 AM
A perfectly laid trap, neatly snaring the obvious prey. In 9 minutes, lolololol. I doff my fez & scratch my bald spot to you sir.
Re: a comment on Holding on for Jesus by Everyone	17-Apr-05/10:53 AM
not necessarily, as someone who grew up in a fundamentalist home, I can imagine someone tatooing 666 somewhere obvious just to end all discussion for once and for all. Only when they accept you as irrevocably irredeemable will they shut the fuck up.
Re: Thanks again by Everyone	16-Apr-05/11:14 AM
snicker