Prose Poem № 119077
In Answer To Your Question
Suppose I tell you I love you no matter what you do,
that nothing you can do will make my love go away?
Suppose I tell you I keep no logs
of cruelties, broken promises, abuses,
past or future?
What if I tell you you can run to the ends of the earth
and do the most horrible, unthinkable things,
and if you come back, Iâll receive you with tears and a party?
Suppose I say you donât have to put on a mask,
and itâs okay to be anything you are and I will never punish you,
and when you mess up, I will never nag?
What if you know my love isnât based on how little wrong you do
and you can hurt my heart but I will never hurt yours?
What if I tell you there is no secret agenda, no trap door
and no turning back?
At such time as I can tell you this I will marry you.
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I guess it works as a "prose poem" - but why? This could be said in far fewer words and cleaner as a less verbose (or nounose) poem.
Turns out that in most cases they are indeed promising more than they will deliver. Not sure how it is in Europe, but in the US more marriages fail than not.
come to find out it wasn't mine. so this wasn't for better or worse it was for worse or better.
You understand the supposition of the narrator, that he or she is not promising, but thinking about promises. When we say, âtil death do us partâ and âfor better or worse,â how different is that from the promises considered in the poem?
No, I think your line is drawn in less sensible sand. They usually are when living is at stake. Iâm guessing that some of my lines have dredged up a womanâs meanness. For that I apologize on behalf of the sex for all the times we have demanded promises from our men, when itâs not his promises that make us happy, but his surprises.
Please return here at the Dear Dovina column as often as you wish.
FACT The only significant, measurable, non-wishy-washy, intellectual difference between the sexes is that on average, men have better spatial awareness than women.
Since men are better than women in BOTH the Physical AND Mental realms, men must be better than women overall. I'm sorry but that's just the way it is :(
Maybe you don't really understand the concept of "strength" - or will sarcasm or wit take the place of an answer? That's what I predict will happen - the True One would have the proper response - but not "you".
You may begin now to see the connection between "being strong" and Fate. The perception of strength gives some the percerption of choice, but really - does either really exist?
And so he bleeds.
Of course 'doing more' could have unpleasant consequences. Just as 'doing less' could have unpleasant consequences. While we cannot flawlessly predict the future, we do try to assess the moral consequences of a particular action, and make a decision - whether to do 'more', or 'less' - based on our particular value system. And such an assessment is not usually just a wild stab in the dark, unless the assessor is utterly thick, or there is simply no background information to help him. Either way, would he be any better off as a weakling? An individual armed with the capacity to perform tremendous feats of strength is in a better position, with regard to manipulating the world in the way he sees fit, than a weakling is. I'm not saying all feats of strength are morally desirable. I'm not saying all strong people make moral decisions I agree with. I'm saying strength is better than weakness, in the same sense that a Pentium 4 is better than a Pentium 2 :(
If you had half the sense of a walnut in your tiny prawn's sack of a head, you'd have argued along the lines that the more strength one has, the more likely that a muscular spasm will break something, and the more temptation there is to do naughty things with that strength.
Of course if you had said those arguments, you would have found some way to buncombe-up everything anyhow, so don't feel too bad. :(
About your balls popping off. Again.
PS-stop quoting my comments back to me, escpecially without rearranging the internal quotation marks. That's simply rude. And besides, it's totally pointless and I'll just end up inserting a bunch of "I, Shuushin, am a chafed anus"-type statements for you to parrot back to me.
PS-stop quoting my comments back to me, escpecially without rearranging the internal quotation marks. That's simply rude. And besides, it's totally pointless and I'll just end up inserting a bunch of "I, Shuushin, am a chafed anus"-type statements for you to parrot back to me. "
http://www.slate.com/id/2112570/
1. An embroidery will continue to grow at constant rate unless another embroidery collides with it, or the loom weaves itself into a frenzy.
2. A family of embroideries is called a hovis.
3. Weave with the weft, you'll soon be bereft.
Weave with the warp, and you'll ne'er parp.
LOOM MAINTENANCE
1. Don't be tempted to fit your loom with a turbo.
2. Remeber to replace your loom's oxygen tanks after each embroidering.
3. Regularly inspect your loom's tyres for fruit salads.
(Loom Maintenance in a High-Risk Hobo Sanctuary)
4. Hoboes cling to filthy looms like barnacles, burrowing deep into their majestic oil trumpets and feasting on woollen deposits. If you find your loom has become encrusted with these urchins, prize them off with a palette knife or coat hanger. In future, a Fisherman's Friend dangling uselessly from the loom's spinnerets should discourage them.
5. If the Hobo Density exceeds 100 Beards, and their interlocking limbs have formed a Level 3 Hobo Matrix, CALL A SPECIALIST AT ONCE. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO REMOVE THE HOBOES BY HAND!
I suppose you take pride in the fact that you can outrun and out-think a handicapped. Sure I may be incapable of attaining high speeds in my Wheeled-Chair, and I may have difficulty parking owing to my unbelievably appalling spatial co-ordination, but at least I haven't turned this debate into a 'personal' debate. When I said what I said about womans being worse than mens, I did so out of a pure intellectual curiosity. I bring no hidden agenda to this discussion; no shameful prejudices about women being jolly good at embroidery etc. I do not seek endwarven one particular sex beneath another. I seek only the truth. And to point out that not only are women generally weaker than men, but also that it is less convenient being a woman because you have to menstruate once a month. Men don't have to menstruate any times a month, unless they're gay :(
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