Re: a comment on Things by Quarton	28-Dec-02/6:10 PM
Are you in you late teens or early 20s, because you sincerely argue like it, and I do not mean that as a bad thing. The fact that you are concerned about a numerical score on your poem is shallow. Sorry, but any way you look at it, it is rather irrelevant and the fact that you keep going back to it will not exculpate you from the labeling. And the fact that you continue to carry on this discussion in relation to the score and the poem is like beating a dead horse, which your poem would greatly object too. Whether it was penned for the general reader or not does not change the fact that the focus, while benign, still borders on propaganda, which takes away from the images, which are generic. And a calf is also a baby cow is it not. I shall read some of your other work at some time, but at this point the focus is on this poem. If this is an issue you believe in strongly read the books I recommended. I could also list numerous non-fiction exposes that are well researched and quite gripping, but I am sure you have found those at the library or at the local bookseller.
Re: a comment on Front, Porch, Swing. by horus8	28-Dec-02/5:52 PM
Pardon my ignorance once again, but who is Jared Leto?
Re: a comment on The Coming Light by poetandknowit	28-Dec-02/11:10 AM
You are telling me you have been reading my comments on this site now for more than 4 months and you have not figured out my tendency to exaggerate for effect. I must go ride my bike, broken pinky or not.
Re: a comment on Little Johnie's Jihad by <{Baba^Yaga}>	28-Dec-02/10:37 AM
I shall listen to it today and look forward to it.
Re: a comment on Things by Quarton	28-Dec-02/10:35 AM
Are you kidding? You must be. Are you really telling me that it is that fact that I gave a poem that I deemed as propaganda and generic a zero is what bothers you? Are you that shallow? People are going to say hurtful things about your work and throw around all sorts of numbers whether on this site or another or in the publishing world. I suggest you stop mooing like a trapped baby cow and get some thicker skin. Here, I will up the score to a two. Now, on to other matters. I suggested a book by Ruth Orki that I thought you might enjoy considering "yes" it deals with in a fictitious and modern setting (rather than something like The Jungle, which albeit most excellent, dwindles into socialist propaganda) with the exact issues you mention, not only in the poem, but also in your comments. Plus, it parallels the issuse in the meat packing industry with the use of DES on pregnant women in the 1950s and 1960s, which gives it the original spin. I am sorry you are taking this as an insult. I quite enjoy when books are recommend to me. It is how you expand your horizons and move from generic thinking to well-rounded thinking. And you cannot possibly tell me you have not heard of Peter Singer, author of the book "Animal Liberation"? Written in the1970s, it is the foundation of the current animal rights movement, even in its most radical form. I suggest you check it out. It will give you more insight and make you sound less shallow. And just because multiple people build a bike, does not mean it is built on an assembly line.
Re: a comment on The Coming Light by poetandknowit	28-Dec-02/1:54 AM
Not you. Old Man River, who is also Athena.
Re: a comment on The Coming Light by poetandknowit	28-Dec-02/1:49 AM
Yes, I see. So then, you are Athena the ultimate plagiarist. Please explain yourself.
Re: a comment on The Coming Light by poetandknowit	28-Dec-02/1:48 AM
Then why all the mystery; let's just get naked!
Re: a comment on The Coming Light by poetandknowit	28-Dec-02/1:33 AM
Sure thing, but please, have fun at my expense if you need too. For some reason everyone, especially out there in California needs to have a 100 personas to exist on this site. It is odd, but go for it.
Re: a comment on The Coming Light by poetandknowit	28-Dec-02/1:27 AM
No you are an idiot.
Re: a comment on The Coming Light by poetandknowit	28-Dec-02/1:26 AM
You are God's Wife.
Re: a comment on The Coming Light by poetandknowit	28-Dec-02/1:20 AM
and who are you?
Re: a comment on The Coming Light by poetandknowit	28-Dec-02/1:19 AM
Okay now, in clear and complete sentences, please explain what you are talking about. Catching on to what? If you paid more attention to the poems rather than the comments you would see that I am only me, poetandknowit, which is a user name, although I do have a few poems under babbit11. There you go. Z in in CT under two feet of snow. I do not know who or where OM is? Who are you?
Re: a comment on The Coming Light by poetandknowit	28-Dec-02/1:11 AM
Again, I have no idea what you are saying. Go read poems or something. You are making yourself out to be one of the dumbest members of this site. What an honor. H8 continues to impress me with his intelligent group of friends. Obviously, you are not the brain surgeon. Do you read Stan Rice?
Re: Little Johnie's Jihad by <{Baba^Yaga}>	28-Dec-02/12:45 AM
The only thing that saves this ditty is that it is a lyric. That is the only excuse for it. And in the perspective it is fine, but is it fine enough for Cake?
Re: a comment on The first gurl 2 eva hurt ma by Jazz_t	28-Dec-02/12:35 AM
I think the gurl hit the poor ole ma with a fryin' pan. Whaddya thinkin'? It was the furst in (insert schwa here)long line ofa gurls to pound and pound on the poor ma who didda nuthin but knit all the day long.
Re: a comment on The Coming Light by poetandknowit	28-Dec-02/12:30 AM
Do you think god gets pissed because he actually picked the numbers and only gets the 10 percent? I mean will he make Mr. Johnny Cash's new helicopter crash. Of course, he is giving the jobs back to his workers and taking the wife to Israel. Maybe he can buy a solution over there.
Re: The first gurl 2 eva hurt ma by Jazz_t	28-Dec-02/12:23 AM
These are the times when I wish Prince never existed.
Re: a comment on The Coming Light by poetandknowit	28-Dec-02/12:19 AM
and join an acting union so I can try out for soap opreas and make 300,000 billion dollars a year and give all my money to god.
Re: a comment on The Coming Light by poetandknowit	28-Dec-02/12:08 AM
Well, a-okay.