Re: Black Buns by Bachus	19-Aug-02/7:56 AM
I read his book, "What Did I Do?" last summer. Quite a fascinating sort. Another of the famous beats, although older, turned me onto him over breakfast at Nichol's one morning. I wont mention names out of respect for the dead. But HE lived in Kansas on a farm with about a billion cats. Anyway, I used to have breakfast with him from time to time. He was a man who liked his eggs over easy and his coffee full of cram and sugar and a dab of salt. I also one lived next door to the apartment where Nick Cassidy and Allen Ginsberg shacked up with Cassidy's wife for a summer. You could almost here the ghosts of the typewriter pounding away at night. So yes, all we spics have something to tell. I did not know of Larry Rivers passing. I quit reading obits in the NY Times when I turned 30. Have a good day, dear sir.
regarding some deleted poem...	19-Aug-02/10:00 AM
This is just goofy.
Re: Black Buns by Bachus	19-Aug-02/12:50 PM
Neal, yes, Neal Cassady! East High School Graduate. Swept floors at May D&F. Drank at My Brother's Bar, hung with the homeless in Civic Center Park. Yes, Neal. Where the fuck did I get Nick so early in the morn.
Re: Posing A 'mission (A Haiku Triad) by gay	19-Aug-02/6:47 PM
Alter egos abound!! Is there a purpose behind this shit?
Re: Ambiguous Love Poem For A Girl I Once Knew by poetandknowit	19-Aug-02/6:55 PM
But I am good. And I'm cute on top it.
Re: Ambiguous Love Poem For A Girl I Once Knew by poetandknowit	19-Aug-02/6:59 PM
And just to show exactly how mature you are, you go through each of your critics' poems and put a 0 there, which is funny, because we are after the comments and not the votes. Does that make sense? We like the banter. So putting a 0 there when you didn't even read the fucking poem just shows your ignorance and immaturity. Did you tell your mother on us? Go back into all of our poems and leave a comment regarding the poem. Say something to us. We love the banter. Or at least I do, I cannot speak for the others. And THEN YOU PULL OFF YOUR POEMS!!! IS THAT HOW WE PAY? By Getting Rid Of You!!!!
Re: Ambiguous Love Poem For A Girl I Once Knew by poetandknowit	19-Aug-02/7:01 PM
Thorns is not shallow. Maybe misguided, but not shallow! I have explained away the other stuff to death, so I do not want to waste space. The are tidbits of a longer work that quite frankly is rubbish.
Re: Ambiguous Love Poem For A Girl I Once Knew by poetandknowit	19-Aug-02/7:10 PM
Sorry, she deleted all of her shit before I could post what I wanted to say. I could not waste it so I posted it here. It was to the Shewolf writer of the save the kitty poems.
regarding some deleted poem...	19-Aug-02/10:03 PM
Hmmm. Being from the Midwest and having to constantly defend our cultural heritage is not easy. People forget that the likes of Twain, Elliot, T. Williams, Burroughs, and let's even throw James Ellroy (although he writes about LA) into the mix so we can have someone living and relatively known, all live or lived in this fair region of the bible, corn and football. However, I'm off my point here. Like I said, it is a struggle. I say "Ten mediocre writers will get published living in NYC before one good one does in the Midwest." La de da. In one ear and out the other. I am off my point again. But it is a hard defense when the likes of this stuff is posted on the site for the world to see. Needless to say (but I will) that it is lacking a good deal. It is one long cliche of meaningless hogwash. I don't care if you keep it posted, but change the fact that you are from Iowa. Please. Say you are from Kentucky. They write like this down there.
Re: would i be considered crazy by silvertongueddevil	19-Aug-02/10:35 PM
Good stuff. I don't like the word "sustenance," but what the hell, it barely takes anything away from the poem.
regarding some deleted poem...	19-Aug-02/10:43 PM
Wow, this thing is popular. However, I am not sure what all the fuss is about. Yes, the poem has quite a few nice line and a few exceptional lines, but on a whole, it is relatively, well, over intellectualised. It is as if you tried so hard to show your reading background that the allegory pops right thru (as you put it). And Blake, fuck you, people don't work in the modern style or the traditionalist style. Dude, modernism is over. For christ sake, go to fucking college and really learn what traditionalism and formalism and modernism are before you throw the shit around this site. She is simply employing allegory. Duh! Look it up and quit masturbating with the British Lit book. It is unbecoming.
Re: American Haiku 2 by memorybabe	19-Aug-02/11:08 PM
I am by no mean an expert of this form, but I alway thought the syllables were different, or is that the point with the American Haiku. Moreover, why disgrace the putrid cow town of Des Moines with the misspell? Explain the motives because the piece does not.
regarding some deleted poem...	19-Aug-02/11:09 PM
How many red seas are there? This is just plain bad stuff. I was trying to like it, I swear. But I just couldn't.
Re: Give me beer! by Agemo-Z	19-Aug-02/11:27 PM
I am quite fond of beer, but not this little ditty.
regarding some deleted poem...	20-Aug-02/11:05 AM
Oh for fucks sake, who gave this a 0. Is it shear fucking jealously? And then not to leave a comment. Tell me you who left the fucking 0. Where are your scrawny little poems. Tell me what you have against this? Is it you razor girl? Who? Let us start a debate. Not that babs gives a fuck. Anyway, forest man - is this new?
regarding some deleted poem...	20-Aug-02/11:20 AM
It is not even an issue of bad or good. We have poets on this site that need honest criticism to propel their work to levels acceptable for publication. Consider this a massive writing group. Weed out the shit and keep the good and the help each other out. The people here that are fighting for something. You know, to make a living at this shit or at least move up to another level of writing. So, if you can give something a 0, say something. I am sure we would all like to hear it. That is what it is all about.
Re: Our New Tongue by Christof	20-Aug-02/11:24 AM
Quite the good poem. The repetition works well, but I think the second stanza is calling out for a bit of work.
Re: Creative Destruction by talking_goldfish	20-Aug-02/11:36 AM
This is quite the weak poem filled with cliched language, images and ideas. With lines like "you make the world seem so glad" just kill the poem. I'd like to buy the world some coke.....la de da.
Re: will you? by Sapphire	20-Aug-02/11:39 AM
That is some serious rhyming.
regarding some deleted poem...	20-Aug-02/11:44 AM
Funny or not funny. This sucks and is a waste of time. I cannot believe you actually bothered to rewrite the fucking thing and repost it.