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  • Other Re: Surreality

    "Love of mine, someday you will die -- but I'll be close behind, I'll follow you into the dark.." --Death Cab for Cutie There's no definite placement to any of ...

    Jun 3, 2007
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: The Warm Glass Window

    Kitty -- Seeing as this poem is freestyle, capital letters are not necessary. The uniform lowercase implies this system. My focus was meant to be on the stars' absense in ...

    May 27, 2007
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: cradling into death

    shhhh... This seems so informal compared to the rest of the poem. I'd suggest something along the lines of "shush" or just "shh" (two h's) if you want to keep ...

    May 26, 2007
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: The Warm Glass Window

    as i leave the smell of sound behind with the city, my marveled stars begin to grow cold and darkling: there is only beauty in the presence of life. each ...

    May 26, 2007
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: First and Last, Beginning and End

    I love your poetry, Cameron, but the beginning of your work is always vague and somewhat whimsical, like this is an unplanned tangent. It isn't, of course, and comes together ...

    May 24, 2007
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: Amnesty International

    I loved the use of style here, how the reader is so immersed in the pure atmosphere, which is entirely realistic, that they do not release the emotions they are ...

    May 24, 2007
  • Lyric Poetry Re: Le Printemps de Nouveau Commencements

    The French version reads beautifully. Simplicity is best pulled off with a language that is far from simple .. at least to those with English as a first language. Next ...

    May 24, 2007
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: Thinking of Things Unsaid

    To make any poem worthwhile, the less extra words, the better. To make a short poem worthwhile, what is said in the short amount of space must have gravity far ...

    May 24, 2007
  • Lyric Poetry Re: E'in Sof

    The beginning dragged me in. It was interesting, full of images, beautifully tying into each other. And then this system was just repeated and dragged out through the rest of ...

    May 22, 2007
  • Lyric Poetry Re: To Xanthan Gum

    The words I had to say had washed up at the bottom of a tin can of cancer - it's hollow ring sounding church bells in my head, while my ...

    May 21, 2007
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: The Bible is Full of Incest

    shriek -- Firstly, my gratitude is boundless. You have no idea how much this in-depth critique helped me to understand the foundations of my own style. For a while I've ...

    May 21, 2007
  • Writing Activities Re: Character Answer Game

    Yes, I could. The only way how, though, would probably be by not realizing what I was actually doing. -- Dr. Jon Brion Have you ever tasted rain before it ...

    May 16, 2007
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: The Bible is Full of Incest

    cadmium: Spliced - split apart sliced - signs of abuse, cuts ShadowTwit: "full of" incest was an exaggeration. But Genesis 20: 11-12, Genesis 4: 26, Genesis 4: 3-8, Exod. 6: ...

    May 16, 2007
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: The Bible is Full of Incest

    S(p)liced thighs form his bedspread these days. He teaches her independence in self-consummation - makes her spine by breaking backbones with granite fists. She sobs that she's bleeding white bits ...

    May 15, 2007
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: Passport photo

    I applied for a new passport today. Took my photo at the booth. Snap. Poker face. This abrupt beginning, which suits the feeling of "snap. poker face" continues throughout the ...

    May 15, 2007


something I have been thinking about ever since I saw the Super Mario Bros movie is how once I took a "what Nintendo character are you" quiz and I got Waluigi.
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