Yawn.

Now try this: If you think -=Dark_Angel=-,P.I. is some hopeless relic of the aristocracy because he uses obscure slangy expressions while you, Dovina, champion the proletariat by supporting dictionary definitions and disdaining slang, you're totally backwards. Besides, if you think that, you'll have utterly reversed/contraried yourself from your last month's bungled argument. As everyone in the world knows, most slang expressions are made up by the poorer classes. It's in their interest, since it's a stick in the eye of the aristocracy, and since they probably won't get really get real language usage anyway. It's in the upper-classes' interest to defend dictionary definitions; besides, the aristocracy and people controlled by the aristocracy write dictionaries, so it's in their interest to include their own special meanings in them. You'll notice that in cases of slang expressions invented by the aristocracy (i.e., "Jolly good!" or the way many Brits say "Right!" every couple of seconds), the words are mostly used according to their dictionary definitions, while most proletarian slang terms I can think of depend on using a word removed from (or only slightly related to) its original meaning - like "to shag", "fucking", or "dyke". In short, of course -=Dark_Angel=-,P.I. is a relic of the aristocracy. Everyone knows that. Unfortunately for you, that only means anything to someone who'd assign value to a person based on his class, which is called racist. And if you've proved anything here, it's just that -=Dark_Angel=-,P.I. is an aristocrat badly imitating proletarian slang expressions and you're a proletarian (or middle-classer, more likely,) badly imitating aristocratic dictionary-love, which everybody knows already. And you come out a lot worse for it.

You're still not getting it. Mouth-plum really means '[something like] a purplish mealy fruit in or coming from your mouth.' In an earlier, perhaps better version, it was actually a question: Is there a plum stuck in your mouth? Surely, you can't fault that for straying from the dictionary definition. Oh, right. You probably can. Because you don't get it.

Yeah, crack will do that.

That’s both plain and civil, and not a bad suggestion. Stinginess has its place, but maybe real sentences would work better here. Live oak limbs do not often hang, however, they usually rise. Maybe: Live oak limbs rise Crooked, unorganized. Lightning bolts hang Jagged, as if lost going home. Never linear for long, Deluded by fluff, They wander on whims. Built in an instant Or century, Like me, they assume The easiest shape. Thanks.

and if I were to converse more plainly I would say you use two verbs in four (incomplete?) sentences which seems a bit stingy. 'The live oak limbs hang crooked' sounds so much more like a sentence than the stunted 'live oak limbs-(=) Crooked'.

John Yuk Dupe?

How much cock?

Nothing like an uncut German window cleaner with a left curve to his penis like a treed ski.

We both know the meanings of "shocked" and "dismayed," or you can look them up. Why do you carry on as if they meant the same thing? The same could be said for "plum" as used in "mouth plum" and as defined in dictionaries. I do wish you'd calm down sometimes.

That, unfortunately for all who may wish it, was not the reason for periods where sentences do not end. They denote breaks or ends of incomplete sentences. Of course I did not place them outside of quotation marks, as some do. If you wish to converse civilly, I could add that most of the punctuation, except the dashes, could be removed.

Hey, ace slobbering incomprehensible personal attack! You're probably also the kind of person who would claim I'm "hiding behind a computer screen" and then, upon learning my real name, make some shit crack about how it contains the words "Dyke", "Up", and "John". Like I hadn't heard those a million times already by the second grade.

Reading this comment, I wondered briefly how you might respond to the suggestion that the reason your poems can go in so many 'directions' is that they utterly fail to say anything at all coherently. My guess is, "Poot".

For one thing, please describe for me how someone "shocked, but not dismayed" would appear in any wise differently from one, say, dismayed but not shocked, and which of the two would win an all-out no-holds-barred brassknuckles staring contest of the olden sort. For another thing, -=Dark_Angel=-,P.I. didn't impute anything, you dumb fuck. And would you not agree that it's boringly characteristic of you to misuse a word during a conversation about using words according to their precise meanings? For another thing, no one's fucking been talking about the meaning "plum" carries, normally or otherwise. Oh, except you, just now. The point is not that Briticisms, Americanisms, or what have you use words differently from their dictionary meanings; that's not even your original point. And besides, if you'd bothered to check, you'd know that "plum" as used on poemranker actually means 'a large purplish kind of mealy fruit'. Good one!

Atleast the mockery springs from your bossom first, O Dark One... For you are a worthy enemy. Now pass me the KY already asswipe!