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this is what i see i see sweaty hoodies wearing boys with Rorshach chests and hair like helmets... i see spit on chins and chins on breasts and sparking mouths like toy godzillas... i see a world where headphones are earplugs and racecars scrimmage on giant treadmills... and i see my legs crossed and stretched out over it all with untied shoelaces... |
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Clipper, I hope I don't jinx your shit by telling you this, but you have talent. Keep writing. Very nice imagery. |
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gee thanks fleetmouse...i will |
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Have you been posting stuff here for a while? I remember one other... do you have a stash of pomes online somewhere? |
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i have a journal with a few on livejournal.com |
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try going to www.livejournal.com/users/30daysettlement |
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OK I will there was nothing for user "clipper" |
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Ah yes, the one with the turnstile eyes. Good shit. Don't let my praise go to your head because nothing is deadlier to poetry than pride. |
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oh...that's for sure |
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can you not be prroud of what you crreate? i don't see how being prroud of what is alrready crreated can effect it... |
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If you get too full of yourself your output becomes pompous bullshit. Especially with poetry, where it is all too easy to let your emotions run wild and become syrupy, or sanctimonious, or ostentatiously hateful. It's a tightrope walk. |
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i have wrrote about 3 rreplies to this now, each time changing my arrgument, but i can't say what i want to... prride can be good... but bad. |
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For an artist or writer pride is like food and drink. As Piet Hein put it: Of drink and victuals and suchlike stuff a little too little is just enough |
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sounds rright |
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You ever read Piet Hein? He was a Dutch mathematician, scientist and writer who wrote these wonderful little advice-poems called |
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lol no i haven't i'll check him out... |
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Naive you are if you believe life favours those who aren't naive. |
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In view of your manner of spending your days I hope you may learn, before ending them, that the effort you spend on defending your ways could better be spent on amending them.--Piet Hein The ultimate smackdown! |
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"The ultimate smackdown!" sez it all |
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