Ever felt like this?

[rowens]

I'm saying no one has ever posted here that either wasn't a sadist, a masochist or an insecure fool or in a small town like me. A small town like me, where the first 'Salem's Lot movie really happened. And there are no '91 rednecks. Rednecks are cool now, but '91 rednecks were something audacious.

[milo]

I don't remember much about the first salems lot
Was there indoor plumbing?

[aschueler]

I am enjoying how far off topic this has gotten. What is unintentional rape?

[rowens]

Not the way I tell it about 'Salem's Lot. . . . Unintentional rape is what you do before it becomes unintentional.

[milo]

I didn't bring up Pascal just for piss and giggles. I'm talking how serious this is on the Internet. I have friends who are afraid to post on this site, questioning legitimacy. Theirs. They're afraid to be let down.

And who wouldn't be a bit scared?
I used to be the fastest runner in the world
Til the day I found a stop watch.

What about the fun of learning, and if eventually you see some improvement the satisfaction in that, in crafting a poem you wouldn't have been capable of a year before.

I revel in my ignorance, I don't know too much about too much, but that gives me a big field to grow in. Thinking of it that way I can understand Leanne's dilemma, maybe she knows too much. But I still don't get why most writers would be scared to go someplace where people expected them to grow.

Good fun is always preceded by a healthy dose of fear.

[ellajam]

And who wouldn't be a bit scared?
I used to be the fastest runner in the world
Til the day I found a stop watch.

What about the fun of learning, and if eventually you see some improvement the satisfaction in that, in crafting a poem you wouldn't have been capable of a year before.

I revel in my ignorance, I don't know too much about too much, but that gives me a big field to grow in. Thinking of it that way I can understand Leanne's dilemma, maybe she knows too much. But I still don't get why most writers would be scared to go someplace where people expected them to grow.

Good fun is always preceded by a healthy dose of fear.

Not always, sometimes being relaxed enough to find everything amusing does the trick.

[rowens]

That's fine if you like to be amused. My poems are going to be motivated by my war. There's enemies coming from two fronts: a landfill lurking in the property money shadows, there's the armies of mosquitoes bred in every raindrop on every water bottle or other piece of plastic in the landfill. Phase one is the first mosquito war coming in the next few weeks. I await them, I have plenty material for poetry. So it's hard to feel I don't. Don't have felt this way.

[milo]

That sounds like only one front.

[rowens]

The landfill itself is fronting.

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The mosquitoes have their own agendas. The landfill is bargaining on the fact we'll weaken in our battle with bloodhuckers and then they think they can move in.

[milo]

I think they are playing you - the landfill and the skeeters are in it together.

[rowens]

No. The landfill people have suits. The mosquitoes can't get at them. So it's going to be an unstable unit. A match made in Hell, I think the poetic term is.

[Magpie]

Rowens I wish you would post poetry more often like you used to. That being said, it's good to hear you state that you have, "plenty of material for poetry".

Not long after joining this site I remember reading this poem http://www.pigpenpoetry.com/thread-9761.html  by you. It is part of the reason why I wish you would post more, who wouldn't enjoy reading poetry like that.

Mark

[rowens]

They're trying to destroy my Bibles. But I've got Dante, Milton and Augustine to connect the dots I need if they get them all.

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Rowens I wish you would post poetry more often like you used to. That being said, it's good to hear you state that you have, "plenty of material for poetry".

Not long after joining this site I remember reading this poem http://www.pigpenpoetry.com/thread-9761.html  by you. It is part of the reason why I wish you would post more, who wouldn't enjoy reading poetry like that.

Mark

The editors of Attractive and Basic Human Needs Readers Monthly, that's who doesn't like reading poems like that.

[milo]

No. The landfill people have suits. The mosquitoes can't get at them. So it's going to be an unstable unit. A match made in Hell, I think the poetic term is.

This is what makes them such powerful allies.

[rowens]

Let me put it this way: I was in the grocery line today and this very beautiful girl who always rings me up was trying to have idle chit chat with me about the movies Abe Lincoln Vamp Hunter and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and I was thinking, Who more than me knows every thing to know about vampires and zombies. Yet I acted like I was above it all. I don't know why. But I have to get over this confusion and regret before the first wave of attacks which could be any time now.

[milo]

Yes, pretty cashiers have this effect on everyone.

[rowens]

Why don't people just talk openly about it? People just have to pretend like they don't notice how good-looking the girl at the checkout counter is. It's called the CHECK OUT counter. She's called the Check Out Girl. But the point I was making is that everything is so boring these days that nothing ever happens. All this extreme terrorism trying to make a difference, and nothing happens.

[milo]

With everything being so extreme, terrorists have a tough gig

[Magpie]

They're trying to destroy my Bibles. But I've got Dante, Milton and Augustine to connect the dots I need if they get them all.

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Rowens I wish you would post poetry more often like you used to. That being said, it's good to hear you state that you have, "plenty of material for poetry".

Not long after joining this site I remember reading this poem http://www.pigpenpoetry.com/thread-9761.html  by you. It is part of the reason why I wish you would post more, who wouldn't enjoy reading poetry like that.

Mark

The editors of Attractive and Basic Human Needs Readers Monthly, that's who doesn't like reading poems like that.

I don't know if I'm supposed to come back and play the game by making some cryptic remark before stating that there is no such publication as "Attractive and Basic Human Needs Readers Monthly"... Of course there isn't that's why it's a game.

The whole point of my post was as encouragement, but why I decided to give a fuck I don't know.

Does 99% of the internet distrust anything that may seem remotely positive because society is so fucked up and that's just the best policy to have to stay safe. Or is the anonymity and remoteness of it all, which creates the perfect opportunity for people to be cunts, to much of a lure to resist an opportunity to be a cunt.

After this post I'm starting to see the appeal of the dark side. I'm easily persuaded.

[Leanne]

I tend more toward dork than dark.

Poets in particular have trouble accepting praise. Maybe it's because even our mothers think we're wasting talent that could have gone into a noble pursuit like journalism or corporate law...