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Ah, the joys of praise with no critique! Time to right that :P Well, overall a very good piece. My problem is, you seem to oscillate between excellent imagery and ...

Sadly, Snoink m'dear, I'm with Silver on this one; besides, this isn't a list poem! In a list-style, each line has to stand absolutely alone: your last two lines are ...

Yeah, I know that feeling; I wonder where some of the kids I used to play football with went - jail cells around the city, some of them. It's sad.

Do they call you the wanderer, per chance?

No. A world built on hopelessness cannot survive: there are no aims, no goals, no planning for the future because there is no possibility that things can ever be 'good' ...

Q: How many Bush Administration officials does it take to screw in a light bulb? A: None. There is nothing wrong with the light bulb; its conditions are improving every ...

How many emo kids does it take to change a light bulb? ... ... ... ... none, let them rot in eternal darkness! ... it wasn't worth it, was it? ...

Why I *LOVE* President Bush. Every time you say that, a fairy loses its wings. And gets buried alive.

We actually had this mentioned in the "most disturbing books you've ever read" thread - I've read it before, and it's definitely an excellent and thought-provoking piece of literature. There ...

The definition of 'good steward' will always be debatable: many would say (and I would probably agree with them) that's it's better for the planet to raise cattle and/or poultry ...

Always direct your virtual feet to the information Mecca, pilgram :p

PETA are one of those groups who I think have almost got something right, and then missed by trying for too much of a good thing. They're a company: they ...

... ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US! ... and probably most other stuff I know.

I never found 1984 all that disturbing, probably because it didn't seem too unrealistic or impossible; having studied psychology and sociology, what was disturbing was how much that kind of ...

Well, thank you all; I forgot all about this little piece (an interesting one to come back to...), so ta muchly for taking the time to read it. Appriciated.