the mad

[billy]

balderdash woman,

there is no getting it wrong aj. it's your POV, that it will now and then conflict with what a poet thinks or doesn't think, doesn't come into it. the important thing is you have a POV ><

Told you I would get it wrong
This is your poem and I clearly do not have the same experiance and depth of expression on this subject.
I love many of the lines in this. (But I still don't connect with those lines that I took out...I just don't see the higher sensitivities that you attribute your female charicter with..... I place the female in this piece at the same level as the male (as opposed to on a pedistal) and this is in a world of displacment and diassociation from what is generally termed "normal"...but I like the idea within the text that questions what is normal. This was how I was reading this, i'm obviously going on a different road trip to the one you had intended
I should probably let it rest there...I just think the sky is a different colour in my world. (currently grey and wet!). The woman in my reading is in lala land of pretence, where she is not taking any responsibility for her actions or behaviour... i would be more likely to give her a slap, than encourage her to get in touch with her higher needs. I suppose it depends on what your idea of a female role is. A female role that is traditional, in my world is one of strength, inteligence and charm. A pioneer, who is as likely to whip a pistol from her knickers at the drop of a hat and (probably) has the constitution of a concrete cow...yet has enough grace to allow her man to take care of her and can transform into a vision of lovelness when the occassion calls for such.
Sorry - You will have to give me up as an unbeliever on this one.
Catch ya later (need to go to bed, brain went on ahead half an hour ago)
AJ.