04-18-2014, 07:51 AM
You can say what you want about me as a person or as a writer. But now you're talking about one of my characters, like one of my children.
"I eat meat only after the animal is dead" -- this is religion. It's much easier to swallow if it doesn't correct you.
Yeah. There's no murder involved.
"I'm only attracted to certain types of black women,
in fact, the same is true of white women;" -- white women are only attracted to certain types of black women?
Maybe you could read it that way, completely disregarding the primacy of the male-first-person-I.
"I have made love to women that* didn't love me" -- women who*
If you want to go overboard insisting that a woman is a 'who' and not a 'that'.
"one time I really did see something that has been scientifically proven not to exist" -- a poet who wasn't full of shit?
A poet is not speaking. A prophet is. Once again, this is my American child we're discussing.
"Sin is something that is negotiable" -- very useful if you've never compromised
Also a useful position if you've adamantly proclaimed that irony is off limits in regard to your religious integrity.
Now, stamp your feet three times and cry petulantly, "you don't get me, man, I'm so much deeper than that". If God doesn't need stupidity or wisdom, he sure as hell doesn't need henchmen.
The henchman part came from my comment. It wasn't in the poem.
Crawl out of your own arse sometime, mate. You can't just write something and then insist people love it.
I don't care if anyone loves the poem. Loving something written isn't important. What I insist is that, nothing really. The main thing I agree on with the character is that there is no irony involved in the poem. It's all of one piece. If anyone thinks, and you, Leanne, from your consistent comments, don't seem to think, that the speaker turns his back on his points at the end, then they are wrong in the realm of the poem. At least that's my point. As for the character, he may be ambiguous, but that's not my intention. My intention is that he is straight forward, ambiguous or confused or bigoted or disagreeable or not. He's my character, and I'm responsible for him.
"I eat meat only after the animal is dead" -- this is religion. It's much easier to swallow if it doesn't correct you.
Yeah. There's no murder involved.
"I'm only attracted to certain types of black women,
in fact, the same is true of white women;" -- white women are only attracted to certain types of black women?
Maybe you could read it that way, completely disregarding the primacy of the male-first-person-I.
"I have made love to women that* didn't love me" -- women who*
If you want to go overboard insisting that a woman is a 'who' and not a 'that'.
"one time I really did see something that has been scientifically proven not to exist" -- a poet who wasn't full of shit?
A poet is not speaking. A prophet is. Once again, this is my American child we're discussing.
"Sin is something that is negotiable" -- very useful if you've never compromised
Also a useful position if you've adamantly proclaimed that irony is off limits in regard to your religious integrity.
Now, stamp your feet three times and cry petulantly, "you don't get me, man, I'm so much deeper than that". If God doesn't need stupidity or wisdom, he sure as hell doesn't need henchmen.
The henchman part came from my comment. It wasn't in the poem.
Crawl out of your own arse sometime, mate. You can't just write something and then insist people love it.
I don't care if anyone loves the poem. Loving something written isn't important. What I insist is that, nothing really. The main thing I agree on with the character is that there is no irony involved in the poem. It's all of one piece. If anyone thinks, and you, Leanne, from your consistent comments, don't seem to think, that the speaker turns his back on his points at the end, then they are wrong in the realm of the poem. At least that's my point. As for the character, he may be ambiguous, but that's not my intention. My intention is that he is straight forward, ambiguous or confused or bigoted or disagreeable or not. He's my character, and I'm responsible for him.