Catch Me Up

[Equinoxe]

E.B. White--my favorite writer--would be appalled

If it's any consolation, he was a hypocrite who actually used adjectives and adverbs somewhat more often than the average for an author of serious literature.

 

[Tzara]

And I wish I had Tzara's bio. He is way more interesting than I.

Ha ha ha ha ha!


Hmmm. Maybe I should put it up on eBay. I can always use a few extra bucks.

 

[Sara Crewe]

Tz will have a hard time enforcing that TM. I think we all have prior art.

I think Liar just said it was okay that I suck and generously referred to my shlock as art.


I have always liked the dishonest dude.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

Life sucks ... and so do I .....

 

[LadynStFreknBed]

What a thing to have in common, eh? Let's share poetry.

I thoroughly enjoyed your new poems today. Thank you.

 

[Anschul]

Life sucks ... and so do I .....

Stop that. Stop that right now.
Unless the thing about you sucking is an erotic thing, not a pessimist thing

 

[UnderYourSpell]

Stop that. Stop that right now.
Unless the thing about you sucking is an erotic thing, not a pessimist thing

Ermmm yes it was erotic lol

 

[Anschul]

Ermmm yes it was erotic lol

worked for me.

 

[annaswirls]

It's from around 2002 or 2003. Our poetry forum friend, smithpeter, who died about 4 years ago (has it been that long, Ange?) took the photo of the house and cut tree. The other pic is me with my head cut off -- um, photoshop, of course. lol I had a poem with it somewhere. It was comparing me to the cut tree. I may post a larger, original version. Anyway, I post weird stuff.

Please post the larger, original version-- it looks amazing. Your work always catches my attention. Have you done a series of these photos?

 

[annaswirls]

Pam????

Hi Pam!

Nope, I just can't do it.

.. you are still Carrie.

Hi, I'm Carrie, most of you know my other name is Pam. I've been around for a bit of a while and still find anti-social moments in my life. They're farther between than ever before since all of you wacky people are easy to talk to.

When I tell you about my medical misadventures I get a bit of sympathy, but most importantly, you are my support, holding me up without carrying me. I'm blessed to have you wonderful poets to chat with.

There's been so much wonder, some no small amount of sorrow and (best of all) incredible joy shared on this forum. It's a miracle to be part of it.

 

[annaswirls]

Thanks for starting this thread, Eve. I just cannot get to the computer these days and it was good to get caught up on some amazing people.

What is new?

I am thinking I need to start writing again, not sure how... maybe I need to get out a notebook again, but I have grown so accustomed to the keyboard. I need to write for the sanity factor, as many of you wisely pointed out-- but it seems to take me a half hour to get warmed up and into some kind of zone and within that time, something usually interrupts me, I have given up even trying because it is just frustrating!


I still have three boys-- 9,7 and 7 months. Hence the interruption.

What is new what is new... hmmm.... I am now the President of an advisory counsel for special education and am a founding member of a new non-profit group with a vision of a community where the disabled have the same opportunities (vocational, social, recreational, educational) as everyone else. So far it is time consuming, frustration and painful. um. and inspiring. Hopefully we will make a difference.

Baby is kind of sleeping through the night.

I have become horribly boring. I cannot believe you are still reading.

What should I write about? Poop consistency?

sheesh.


oh I finally gathered together some poems, edited them and sent them off to be considered as a chapbook. There I said it. A real long shot. I won't know for a while. If and when it gets rejected at least I have it ready to send off again.


I spent three weeks back at "home" with my family. My middle son did not want to come back here~ with all of the aunts and uncles and cousins up there, he had so much fun. What the hell have I done taking my children so far away???

 

[darkmaas]

I have just returned from a rather liquid lunch of the type that was "de rigeur" before Enron made the corporate lunch a symbol of capitalistic excess.

Normally I would avoid an excercise like this and resort to "read my stuff if you want to know who I am". Recently I reread some of that stuff and wondered if indeed I would hire such a person. This is not such an academic question as I am self employed and not hiring myself would have serious financial consequences.

My name is David. I don't normally capitalize it. Many think that this is just me exercizing my inner sub, but they are mistaken. I dislike capital letters. They were designed for inscription on stone edifices to make the mason's life easier. Miniscules on the other hand flow from pen to parchment and sparkle even on a screen. Capital '"O" and "Q" are gorgeous and "G" can be nice if the font designer has his wits about him. The rest ... I digress.

So there's the first thing you might not know. I'm a book fetishist. I love typography, page layout and book design. I own books that have content that I will never read but are beautiful fetish objects. This often annoys poets in particular since they have this egocentric notion that content is important.

Paradoxically I share this belief.

When Tzara said:

My name is Bill W. and I'm a polynymic.

I immediately thought of Fernando Pessoa. He called it heteronymic but the effect is the same. (Alas the prefix hetero has acquired an unfortunate sexual overtone but perhaps, in such a place as this, that is not a fault.) I am a great fan of Pessoa and his many alts. Even though he died in 1935 I like to think of him as the first poet of the 21st century, since long before chat rooms and forums such as this he mastered the alt, and the consequences of letting one's persona fragment.

So, if we are to confess our heteromyms, I am trinymic. There is of course darkmaas who is much like me with no taste in hats. Then there is beetrootjesuit who was created initially for the sole purpose of flirting with disposagirl. Think of him as d'maas with a hard on. Eventually he tried his hand at 30 poems but was indistinguishable from darkmaas and was retired.

Then there's OpheliaQuieroz named after Pessoa's girlfriend (but with Canadian spelling). Pessoa was being discussed in the forum and behind the screens. I created her as a joke to see if anyone actually knew anything about Pessoa. She was also supposed to let me excercise my anima. She posted two poems about her life with Fernando and then all the gentlemen poets started hitting on her. I couldn't see myself juggling such conflicted relationships so she wrote a very scary poem with a castration theme which did the trick. However she was no longer anything like Pessoa's GF so she posted a few ditties and joined beet on the shelf. I don't think they like each other.

david

 

[unpredictablebijou]

My name is David. I don't normally capitalize it. Many think that this is just me exercizing my inner sub, but they are mistaken. I dislike capital letters. They were designed for inscription on stone edifices to make the mason's life easier. Miniscules on the other hand flow from pen to parchment and sparkle even on a screen. Capital '"O" and "Q" are gorgeous and "G" can be nice if the font designer has his wits about him. The rest ... I digress.

So there's the first thing you might not know. I'm a book fetishist. I love typography, page layout and book design. I own books that have content that I will never read but are beautiful fetish objects. This often annoys poets in particular since they have this egocentric notion that content is important.

Paradoxically I share this belief.

o well done!

thank you, thank you so much for this. I've always felt like most capitalization was just a necessary evil, and I didn't know anyone else like that was out there. I have a great deal of trouble capitalizing my name(s). Meh, it's an aesthetic thing, as much as a philosophical issue. One vacillates between wanting to be authentic and not wanting to appear contrived. And capitalizing "I" always seemed a bit egoic to me. I mean, even the FRENCH don't capitalize 'je". And you know how they are.

I'll call you david if you call me bijou.

 

[darkmaas]

o well done!

thank you, thank you so much for this. I've always felt like most capitalization was just a necessary evil, and I didn't know anyone else like that was out there. I have a great deal of trouble capitalizing my name(s). Meh, it's an aesthetic thing, as much as a philosophical issue. One vacillates between wanting to be authentic and not wanting to appear contrived. And capitalizing "I" always seemed a bit egoic to me. I mean, even the FRENCH don't capitalize 'je". And you know how they are.

I'll call you david if you call me bijou.

bijou ...

I just love the "ij" regardless of the font ... and then bookended by nice globular "b" and "o" ... what's not to love.

Just glad we aren't rhyming in German.


david

 

[unpredictablebijou]

bijou ...

I just love the "ij" regardless of the font ... and then bookended by nice globular "b" and "o" ... what's not to love.

Just glad we aren't rhyming in German.


david

It's a little more difficult to do pretty much anything in German, as far as I can tell.

Lovely language, don't get me wrong. But I only met one man who could actually make a Rilke poem sound sexy without translating it.

God he was hot though. 81 years old, and had me lusting after him quite ridiculously after reading Zum Einschlafen zu sagen to me in mellifluous German.

And he knew it, the bastard.

I shall now cease to hijack this thread with kinky memories.

thanks, though.

bj

 

[Anschul]

o well done!

thank you, thank you so much for this. I've always felt like most capitalization was just a necessary evil, and I didn't know anyone else like that was out there. I have a great deal of trouble capitalizing my name(s). Meh, it's an aesthetic thing, as much as a philosophical issue. One vacillates between wanting to be authentic and not wanting to appear contrived. And capitalizing "I" always seemed a bit egoic to me. I mean, even the FRENCH don't capitalize 'je". And you know how they are.

I'll call you david if you call me bijou.

oh thank you, dm...er...david. i've gotten so sick of being called "pretentious" because I write in lower case that i stopped doing it (you know--"who do you think you are? e.e. ...well, you know...) i've even been chastised by my wife for doing it (a writer, you know), but from this point on, i'm going back to lower case, with your (and bj's) blessing. if anyone hoots at me, i'll blame you two and link them to this thread. i thought i was alone on this one.

hi. my name is anschul, and i've been lower case letters for one day..."

and beej, you can call me anything you want, any time.

dm, nice to know you.

 

[bluerains]

I M

Linda....
I am here as a reborn sensual soul...after most of my younger years being
an asexual being...having a transporting experience from the divine nature of
love....sensing the beauty of this site as a blue being....period...ty

 

[UnderYourSpell]

Can I beg to differ? annie seems so babyish to me like I should be sitting in a pram sucking a dummy (ummm pacifier I think to you) now that is a kinky thought ... so if you don't mind I will stick to Annie who is a more mature (ish) person altogether

 

[WickedEve]

[/i] But, Doctor! Eve said confession would be good for my soles.

Oh, and these were good confessions. I'm guzzlin' java and waiting for you to sweep out some more dirt. So, you were in prison? I could read it in your poetry -- hidden between the strophes, like a smoking gun.

 

[WickedEve]

I can at times go 60 to 70 hours without sleep.

I have a blood fetish.

My cat tries to jump up on top of my head every time I wear headphones.

I have, as of last week, not gotten laid in six months.

I want either more details or photos. Your choice.

 

[WickedEve]

I'm Sara who was at one time known as Catbabe.

Ah, I remember Catbabe! Glad you're here under any name you choose.

 

[WickedEve]

Hi. You can call me Dora. I was that kid who read books with her knees up in the back of the bus and pretended to be invisible. It mostly worked.

I am most comfortable around a couple of friends and a fireplace. I like video games and hang out with gamer boys sometimes. I have a bit of a cat fetish. Not as in real cats but as in imaginary science fiction catwomen in latex.

I am bisexual but mostly someone has to kind of hit me over the head and say "wow let's have sex!" before I know s/he is flirting with me. So either I don't flirt with anyone, usually, or I flirt with everyone. I'm not sure which. Maybe it is the latter but I'm just not very good at flirting so it comes out more like the former?

My bosses are very straight-laced and them finding out I post someplace like this would be a problem. (Thus my rl pic only stayed up about 4 hours.)

I would like to be a competent poet before I die, so hopefully I have some time to work on it.

You sound like you're just too sweet of a person. Seriously.

 

[WickedEve]

Evie's bluntness is one of the great things about this place. Whenever she's slammed me upside the head, it's because I've deserved it.

I'm blunt? Really? Well, damn. lol

 

[WickedEve]

Well, hello. I am Equinoxe,

I saw this in your reason for editing: I don't feel I have to explain my art to you.

No, you don't. You should never have to explain your creations.

 

[WickedEve]

Hi Eve,

I'm a writer by profession and a musician in my soul. My father gave me a beat-up old Martin accoustic guitar when I was eight (I still have it), and it has led me, like a talisman, to some strange and interesting places, the most interesting of which was as a guitar tech for the Grateful Dead (I was better at taking guitars apart and putting them back together than playing them).

And I wish I had Tzara's bio. He is way more interesting than I.

You are interesting! I especially think the paragraph about being a guitar tech for the G.D. is way cool.