Re: post-rock messiah by jsd	30-Mar-04/8:19 PM
Good morning and welcome to poemranker! I thought I might take a crack at being nice to someone on his/her first day and not giving 'em a hard time - you know, razzing the new kid and all. Hey, speaking of crack, do you like Jim Morrison, because this poem kind of reminds me of him in several ways? Write back and let me know what you think!
Re: a comment on I Married an Infectious Woman (My Love, 'Futility') by SupremeDreamer	30-Mar-04/4:48 PM
I knew you would.
Re: a comment on I Married an Infectious Woman (My Love, 'Futility') by SupremeDreamer	30-Mar-04/2:45 PM
Hey, SupremeDreamer! I didn't say bad-weird.
Re: a comment on I Married an Infectious Woman (My Love, 'Futility') by SupremeDreamer	30-Mar-04/1:38 PM
It's weird. Like a fuckin reunion episode here today.
Re: a comment on Try, Please Try by Spindle	30-Mar-04/12:20 PM
I don't have a random word associator. I didn't know Wesley Wallis was late. Damn. That does make my band's occasional use of casio beats kind of like a tribute. Here's to you, Wesley, you crazy hobo-shaped clam-jerky.
Re: a comment on A country called Cha by richa	30-Mar-04/10:51 AM
Amendment: I'm cool now with the cha/char/tea part and actually like using different words. But I'm still stuck on beared. Is it a play on bared? On beard? Would you consider leaving it bear, as in 'tea and ornaments that bear its leaf'?
Re: a comment on Try, Please Try by Spindle	30-Mar-04/8:37 AM
A Casio-keyboard beat accompaniment (with one-finger-chord effect) for a drain-smelling man-spaetzle.
Re: A country called Cha by richa	30-Mar-04/6:43 AM
I'm sorry, I don't get using beared instead of bore, or why it's called char in the poem and cha in the title (seems char is better for both). I'm sure you had a reason; I just can't see it. The rest is better than ever.
Re: a comment on a person by francis nor capule	30-Mar-04/6:37 AM
Thanks, but I was just kidding. The real truth is I just think Christian porn addicts are the most hilarious people ever. I strongly encourage you to see for yourself here: http://www.porn-free.org/masturbation.htm
Re: a comment on Old Glory by Richard	30-Mar-04/5:34 AM
http://www.poemranker.com/poem-details.jsp?id=80728 http://www.poemranker.com/poem-details.jsp?id=81528 http://www.poemranker.com/poem-details.jsp?id=86270
Re: a comment on Old Glory by Richard	30-Mar-04/5:04 AM
http://www.poemranker.com/poem-details.jsp?id=79015
Re: a comment on The Punk With The Stutter by Joe-joe	29-Mar-04/2:01 PM
Oh. For some reason I thought you were talking about the famous Korean War veteran Robert Daltry. Are you graduate faculty?
Re: a comment on a person by francis nor capule	29-Mar-04/12:21 PM
Consider it this way: 27.5 million Americans visited internet porn websites in January 2002, or roughly 10% of the U.S. population. Other studies put that number as high as 20% (and 37% of males). In one study, almost 18% of the respondents who identified themselves as Christian admitted to internet porn viewing. It is not unreasonable to guess that 5-10 of the 50 poemranker users to log on since I posted that message are internet pornsters, a figure which is likely on the low side considering that all poemranker users are already internet users (barring, of course, that we're all poets here and sensitive ones at that.) Naturally, I wouldn't want to post quotes from porn-addiction-Christian-ministry sites on the poems of posters whom I considered most likely to be porn-users. That would only drive them deeper into depravity, leading to homosexuality, bestiality, evil spirits, or masturbation. So I decided to post porn-addiction-Christian-ministry quotes on random poems, in the hope that the real porn-addicts among us would happen to see them and be inspired to call upon the Maker for salvation. Does that help any?
Re: The Punk With The Stutter by Joe-joe	29-Mar-04/12:02 PM
Hey Joe-Joe, I'm having trouble finding your name on the New School homepage. Could you post the address? It's Robert Daltry, by the way.
Re: a comment on a person by francis nor capule	29-Mar-04/9:01 AM
What do you think?
Re: Old Glory by Richard	29-Mar-04/7:57 AM
I figure you must be ignoring me because of that whole cliche-count business a while back. That's fine; it's your prerogative to only pay attention to positive comments and ignore negative ones (which aren't really what you'd call 'constructive criticism' anyway, am I right? I mean, the positive ones are obviously constructive, since they make you feel good; and the negative ones are obviously best ignored, since they make you feel like a waterlogged 18th-century cliche-dictionary opened to the entry 'stool', am I right?) But, you see?! That's exactly why I'm writing to you now! I feel I've misrepresented myself to you - like we've gotten off on the wrong foot here. So, I want to make amends by talking a little bit about your poem here and why I gave it a three. You know, constructive criticism like. The first thing is that I tend to feel like poetry shouldn't be a compendium of trite phrases. In fact, I really believe that poets should try REALLY HARD not to say ANYTHING that has ever been said before. Now, when I said something like this in an oblique manner on one of your earlier posts, you responded to the effect that if you eliminated everything that HAS been said from one of your poems, you'd be left with nothing. Now, this is not obviously the case with all poetry. Um, my posts are a bad example, but there are even posts here which cannot be reduced to two words by removing cliches. I'd even say there are posts on this site which come pretty close to perfect clichelessness. So it can be done, even by relative hacks. Remember, this is only my theory of poetry. Some people think cliches are great: Jimmy Buffet, to name one, and John 'Cougar' Melloncamp. But it's all about theory here, anyway, so you might as well take mine into consideration along with everyone else's and your own. So next I'd suggest that if your poetry is, as you point out, reduceable to two words, then it might be on account of your subject-matter, which judging from your posts here and on your homepage falls into such broad categories as "Love", "Despair", "America", and so on. I don't mean poets shouldn't try to write about those things, but they would have to be more careful doing it than, say, writing about ducks with AIDS or appropriate beard materials for homemade Negro Jesuses, since so many people have written about Love and so on before and hardly anyone has written about ducks and Jesuses - sadly. So, my recommendation to you would be to comb through this piece for anything which you might have heard anywhere else, which shouldn't be hard since practically everything here is cribbed from Wal-Mart bumper-stickers (you know the ones I'm talking about!) and then to replace every cliche with some original expression. That's all. Oh, and if your response to this is that this already says everything about America that you can think of or feel then you are SERIOUSLY underestimating America's range and beauty, my friend! What about FRENCH-FRY-SMELLING? What about CHARTER-BUS-TOUR-TAKING? What about BARELY-CONCEALED-HOMOEROTIC-TENDENCIES? I do hope you'll think about it. Thanks for your time! - zodiac
Re: my secret by tre	28-Mar-04/6:52 AM
Do not read this if you haven't yet seen the incredibly good movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, as this is almost an exact plot summary as written by an infinite number of drunken monkeys banging on infinite malfunctioning typewriters.
Re: a comment on hidden by the indign	27-Mar-04/8:17 PM
No, I like hearing Christians talk about porn addiction. The poem is cute, delicate, the ending is actually rather nice. But I'd never recommend using ellipses in a poem. I'd do it with line breaks and dashes if it was me.
Re: a person by francis nor capule	27-Mar-04/10:00 AM
"13) Looking at porn helps you start to believe the lies it promotes. Examples lies include: * Sexual freedom = happiness * Perverted sex is more enjoyable than "normal" heterosexual sex (homosexual sex, incest, BDSM, etc) * There are no consequences to sexual promiscuity * Sexual expression is a right, not a God-given or God-defined gift * You can live a healthy life with the porn images floating around in your mind * Porn doesn't harm anyone * Sex is something to be done primarily for self gratification * The porn stars are the happiest people on earth * Adults can view porn without any lasting side effects * Porn will help your sex life * Porn is just a harmless thing that every man looks at"
Re: Different Paths by singinkygal	27-Mar-04/9:56 AM
""For me, it started with the little things such as "soft-porn", and before I knew it I was spending many evenings and early mornings locked in my bedroom entertaining this seedy indulgence. Pornography is such a integral part of my life that only very recently did I realize that this demon had imbedded itself into my Heart of Darkness."