Your inability to produce worthwhile verse, or to make any insightful observation, is matched only by your inability to correctly write my name. It is spelled with two hyphens, two equals signs and an underscore. I went to the trouble of legally changing it, so you might as well get it right.

I had a good laugh reading this

re "Do you think the non-alphanumeric characters in my name are somehow less important than the others?" - of course not. And you're wrong saying foothangingoutofass's name ends in 'ass'. Properly read, the divisions go Fo otha 'n gin gou to fass, which is a dialectal rendering of 'For other than gin [you've] got to fast,' a famous (though meaningless) Southern proverb.

I have thus far refrained from noting that your pen-name (minus 'z' and plus 'Ch') is 'Chodiac'. Do you think the non-alphanumeric characters in my name are somehow less important than the others? What is more, the whole fucking point of my name is to be the worst, most clichéd name possible. Next you'll be telling 'foothangingoutofass' that his name ends in 'ass'.

I have thus far refrained from noting that your pen-name (minus dashes, equal-signs, and underscore) is the title of a bad action television series directed by James Cameron. I have no desire to use such a weapon - which, incidentally, is banned under the provisions of the famous Transatlantic Treaty Against Improper & Sardonic References to Our Respective Cultures signed by our two countries in 1976, a treaty already strained to the point of breaking by our endless caricatures of your country's systems of dental hygiene and education, and by the constant portrayal of Americans as gung-ho, jerky-eating illiterates on your hilarious and unavoidable BBC sitcoms. I implore you, then, to point your tanks in some other direction (France, perhaps,) lest I should say something we both regret. Thank you.

So because some well-known, crappy film is released, this beautiful poeme has to be vandalised? Do you not see that by giving 'Vanilla Sky' a monopoly on the phrase 'Vanilla Sky' you are making a mere husk of a film, that would otherwise have been forgotten in the balms of mediocrity, into a mad, laughing urchin, bulging with far more influence than it deserves? How dare you.

So is that good? Not damning, I guess. I think you just like reading a poem with unpredictable linesbreaks and big spaces. But maybe I'm wrong about that. ;D Well, that's constructive, at least. Ta.

All I'm saying is that people are going to think that. EVERYONE is. EVERY SINGLE PERSON ON THE WHOLE PLANET is going to think of the movie. Whatever you meant, that will be the result. Think of it this way: say I wrote a poem entitled "I'm a Racist Pedophile". Even if the poem itself wasn't about me being a racist pedophile, people would probably think that about me, and I'd be more than a little responsible for that. More accurately for your situation, say I wrote a poem called "I Live in The Matrix" - now what are the odds that I invented a metaphor for the empowered institution I'm required to subscribe to by the fact of my living on earth, and just happened to call that institution 'The Matrix' without having given any regard to the popular trilogy starring Keanu Reeves? They're pretty long; people are going to think I'm referring to the movie, which would be crap. Change it. CHANGE IT CHANGE IT CHANGE IT. And it's not like I'm criticizing an image you spent hours inventing yourself (or, incidentally, one which has anything really to do with the imagery of your poem,) so why defend it? Just think of almost any other adjective than vanilla and attach it to almost any other adjective than sky and you'll be alright.

why did you call me a dumbass?? I'm not catholic I don't participate in a religion. -Angie