poemranker ::A love of the midlands by ==Doylum

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A love of the midlands

Member since 2002 · Posted 21 Oct 2002 · 35 comments

sophistication don't you talk to me about it i've been to telford

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[7] <~> 21-Oct-02/1:02 PM Reply
bloody hell
[n/a] ==Doylum › <~> 21-Oct-02/1:16 PM Reply
indeed it is
[6] Frass 21-Oct-02/1:12 PM Reply
What's telford, a town? If so, capitalize it. Should I change my holiday plans for Iceland and go to Telford, instead?
[n/a] ==Doylum › Frass 21-Oct-02/1:17 PM Reply
yes you most definitely should
[6] Frass › ==Doylum 21-Oct-02/1:39 PM Reply
Thanks, and Dylm, do consider a holiday to our own picturesque Trenton, New Jersey; send a postcard, won't you?
[n/a] ==Doylum › Frass 21-Oct-02/1:52 PM Reply
can't i come and visit? rather than just sending a hallmark. telford should never be capitalised.
[n/a] -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. › ==Doylum 21-Oct-02/4:27 PM Reply
You can wisit me! My address is 12 Excellent Boulevard, Texas.
[n/a] ==Doylum › -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. 21-Oct-02/6:20 PM Reply
why would i want to wisit you? is it near a fun fare. I bet you don't even live there, i bet its a made up name and address, ha i saw through your clever trick you swine. Why would you attempt to perpetrate such a darstadly wease upon me?
[5] poetandknowit 21-Oct-02/6:42 PM Reply
So have I. And why do you disappear so? Is it you who comes as strider1 and Astro Glide? Is it? Your poetry hasn't imporoved in your leave. But such is that.
[n/a] ==Doylum › poetandknowit 21-Oct-02/6:52 PM Reply
have you really did you find it wonderful? Yes of course i come as stridingone and astro glide? and many other nom du plume how do you see through my diguises so. I see in my absence you have told everyone that you lecture, jolly good. I'm so glad you find time inbetween boring your students to help out.
[5] poetandknowit › ==Doylum 21-Oct-02/6:55 PM Reply
That i lecture? I suppose, but boring; I hope not. After all I do not teach writing or any other English courses.
[n/a] ==Doylum › poetandknowit 21-Oct-02/6:59 PM Reply
what do you lecture in then darling?
Are you admitting that your writing may bore? that seems very unlikely you never seem to have a shred of doubt
[5] poetandknowit › ==Doylum 21-Oct-02/7:06 PM Reply
Right now, I lecture a course in Latin American revolutionary movements, and a general survey of Latin American studies. And no, my poems are not boring. Just ask the ladies. It is all about the ladies, eh? Does my confidence still bother you?
[n/a] ==Doylum › poetandknowit 21-Oct-02/7:10 PM Reply
They have a great propensity for boring me mark. Yes i know thats because i'm an uneducated fool. Its not your confidence that bothers so much as your schoolyard logic
[5] poetandknowit › ==Doylum 21-Oct-02/7:24 PM Reply
Fine and dandy. You should hook with Tintagle and trade soup stories. And I'll keep on keepin' on. That is trucker language. I learned it from Intransit. Were you the kid who stuck his tongue to the frozen pole at recess? Why do you need other identities to flank me? Of course, not even you living in the barn out back making tea from hay could be that ludicrous. See, I am humble. I can give compliments.
[n/a] ==Doylum › poetandknowit 21-Oct-02/7:37 PM Reply
what does all that mean darling? Another roundabout way of telling me i'm stupid? Why would anyone bother with 101 poemranker ids, have you more than 1, i do hope so. Just the 1 mrs wembley
[n/a] ==Doylum › poetandknowit 21-Oct-02/7:14 PM Reply
is it about the ladies?
[5] poetandknowit › ==Doylum 21-Oct-02/7:26 PM Reply
Isn't it? In your case just substitute ladies with female milk goats. See. It is all about the ladies.
[n/a] ==Doylum › poetandknowit 21-Oct-02/7:36 PM Reply
Of course you have the answers. Its all about chasing birds or starfish everything is just about birds and starfish. Thanks! ho ho the old bestiality one rears its pointy head again well done.
[n/a] ==Doylum › poetandknowit 21-Oct-02/7:41 PM Reply
does my failure to recognise your great genius bother you?
[5] poetandknowit › ==Doylum 21-Oct-02/7:45 PM Reply
Because he finds my work boring which is incredibly odd considering a great deal of it is short, less than 10 lines. But go figure. Maybe you are tintagle. If so, you are much more interesting as Doylum. Just a note for future reference. This is my poemranker id. Sorry. And my comment was not meant to reference bestiality. Way back when, you were making egalitarian references and I was just keeping with the theme. And I do not believe I ever said you were stupid and if I did I am sure it was in jest. I am sorry if I hurt your feelings in any way. No, to Christof it is all about birds. To me, ladies!! And I am not a genius that would be the Canadian undergrads. I am a wishy washy, Barry Manilow of a poet who is ugly and fat and has not had a date in six years. The fact that I own 16 Laundromats, 2 hydroponics farms and a small fleet of weed eating goats keeps the bills paid and food on the table.
[n/a] ==Doylum › poetandknowit 21-Oct-02/8:03 PM Reply
It is possible for things to bore in a short period. I watched the blair witch project for the first time last might and was bored within 2 minutes of it starting. Besides propensity allows for a boredom that is not all encompassing. No not tinted 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 id. You really haven't hurt my feelings in any way at all darling don't worry ye little self. You were trying to convince me of your great intellect the other day my dear and accused me of jealousy. Do you really believe i'm a little green leprechaun?
[5] poetandknowit › ==Doylum 21-Oct-02/8:17 PM Reply
and wrekin.
[5] poetandknowit › ==Doylum 21-Oct-02/8:11 PM Reply
I suppose. I will just have to work harder and write better so I can get the approval of everyone. I will have to go back and read it someday for I do not remember. Well maybe not, I will just take your word for it. I am sure I was in a playful mood that night. 12 Ids. For fucks sake. And I have no idea what you are? If you are not from over the pond, well, bummer. You should be, I wish I was. This multiple ID thing hurts my head. I think there are actually only six people on this site including me.
[n/a] ==Doylum › poetandknowit 21-Oct-02/8:17 PM Reply
green? the leprechauns taken as given
[n/a] Christof › poetandknowit 22-Oct-02/1:21 AM Reply
You've put me off the birds. I don't touch them now. I feel physically sick every time I see one. Now for me it's all about my existence as a lifeless husk of a man with no passions or pleasures except the mastication of cardboard.
[n/a] Christof 22-Oct-02/1:18 AM Reply
Where are you coming from? Telford should be European City of Culture. It's got bridges, after all. And a tree.
[8] Nicholas Jones 22-Oct-02/1:23 AM Reply
I've never been to Telford. But I've been to Shrewsbury.
[n/a] Christof › Nicholas Jones 22-Oct-02/4:54 AM Reply
Isn't that a song? I've been to Shrewsbury but I've never been to me.
[n/a] ==Doylum › Christof 22-Oct-02/5:11 AM Reply
if it truely is a song it sounds the most excellent of ditties
[n/a] ==Doylum › Nicholas Jones 22-Oct-02/5:35 AM Reply
Shrewsbury is an hole bubbeling cess in comparison to telford. Please do visit the wonderesness that is telfod
[n/a] god'swife 29-Oct-02/3:27 PM Reply
Good God ==Doylum, are you ok?! Stand too close to the metro? I heard if someone has wings only on their right side it means they're gay. Is that true, or just a celestial legend? Must be a legend. I mean you don't have any parts right? But wait you told me you used to frabble to the tunes of Ms. Amos. What's going on? You have some explaining to do. Those wings are phony aren't they. Wing implants, humpf. When are you lads going to learn to love yourselves for who you are? You make baby Jesus cry.
[n/a] ==Doylum › god'swife 1-Nov-02/6:56 AM Reply
My dear 'swife i am not the god lord. Yes thank you i am very well, although a little unbalanced. The deforminty was self inflicted. I chewed it off in an attempt to escape a 10 pint bushpig.
What parts don't i have?
What explaining?
I do love myself for who i am, 10 to 15 times a day.
If i made the young whippersnapper cry he only has himself to blame, after all he did look at me with those seductive eyes, and he never used the safe word once.
[8] Bachus 29-Oct-02/6:26 PM Reply
i went cow tipping once in bellingham. i am the shoe horn that invented sophistication, and the blow dryer.
[4] Robert K Foster 10-Jun-03/9:38 AM Reply
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