Poemranker [Poem: Texas] [by Nicholas Jones] Thu Apr 18 17:35:08 PDT 2024

[5] poetandknowit @ 65.101.210.232 | 2-Nov-03/8:03 PM | Reply

Hasty generalizations will only make you look foolish.

[n/a] Nicholas Jones @ 66.169.216.96 > poetandknowit | 2-Nov-03/8:13 PM | Reply

Yes, this is about cliches. But I am actually currently in Texas (this is my first visit to the US) and there are lots of churches and Mexican food is very popular. This isn't a disparagement, just an observation. Everybody I have met has been great.

[5] poetandknowit @ 65.101.210.232 > Nicholas Jones | 2-Nov-03/8:36 PM | Reply

The margarita and fajita were invented in Dallas, Texas. There are your state facts for this evening. Why and where are you in the Lone Star state?

[n/a] horus8 @ 24.126.116.54 > poetandknowit | 2-Nov-03/8:40 PM | Reply

Somewhere inbetween Uranus and the Rio Grande no doubt.

[n/a] Nicholas Jones @ 66.169.216.96 > poetandknowit | 3-Nov-03/6:31 AM | Reply

I'm in Denton, Texas. I've been to a conference and given a paper on postcolonialism in Welsh literature. Tomorrow I'm giving a lecture on twentieth century Welsh poetry at the University of North Texas. America is great, although I keep looking the wrong way for cars and nearly getting run over.

Today I hope to see the schoolbook depository and the grassy knoll, and so fulfil my dreams.

[n/a] -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. @ 163.1.146.105 > Nicholas Jones | 3-Nov-03/8:17 AM | Reply

Shut up Nicholas Jones. That isn't your lifelong dream. Your lifelong dream is (a) to make every single person in the world apologise to the Welsh for God knows what, and (b) to make every single person in the world live in a terraced house.

My lifelong dream is World Peace.

[n/a] Nicholas Jones @ 66.169.216.96 > -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. | 3-Nov-03/7:32 PM | Reply

I actually saw the depository and the knoll today, and it was amazing.

Nobody needs to apologise to the Welsh, except perhaps Llywelyn the Last for being killed and Henry VII for selling out to the English. Oh, and Margaret Thatcher, Winston Churchill (for sending in the troops to Tonypandy in 1910), the Normans, Henry V, etc.

Everyone should live in a terraced house, because it's fun to drag the rubbish right through the lounge from the back yard to the street every week.

[n/a] Nicholas Jones @ 66.169.216.96 > poetandknowit | 2-Nov-03/8:25 PM | Reply

Also, I picked fundamentalism just because I like using long words in haikus.

[8] Jeremi B. Handrinos @ 24.126.116.54 | 2-Nov-03/8:09 PM | Reply

The thing with Texas is that no matter where you stand it always smells like shit.

[6] scitz @ 62.105.119.105 | 3-Nov-03/4:56 AM | Reply

good opening.