Haskins

sh*thead

eta: forgot it would show up...I thought it would be stars...my apologies...geesh!

**** like that'll get ya in trouble!

eata: I added the star myself...wasn't that nice of me?

and everyone, please give billy a negative rep for either not knowing what ozymandias is or for not acknowledging its greatness.

thank you.

Stew21 said:

sh*thead

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holy ******* howd you get away w that?





lol

same way we can say pussywillow and shitty and jackass

PeeDee said:

I didn't know he was gay either, and I can't say I ever noticed any homo-erotic images in his poetry...but I wasn't looking for it, so I wouldn't have noticed it.

I hate it when I mention an author and someone says "S/he's gay, you can really see it in their work."

Because, yes, eventually you can see it. I guess it bothers me on the same level as people who refuse to listen to Elton John or Melissa Etheridge, or Rufus Wainwright simply because they're gay. I think the work should carry itself.

(er. This has nothing really to do with Walt Whitman. It just made me think.)

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I will come clean here, but gay isn't offensive to me. Never was, or ever will be because I don't think the lifestyle is an issue or something that I would judge another human.

Bravo said:

and everyone, please give billy a negative rep for either not knowing what ozymandias or for not acknowledging its greatness.

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Don't give me a negative rep point.

http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/haven/6692/wavs/hulk.wav

My virgin ears, they're bleeding!

billythrilly7th said:

Don't give me a negative rep point.

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Yeah, he's already got too many.

SpookyWriter said:

I will come clean here, but gay isn't offensive to me. Never was, or ever will be because I don't think the lifestyle is an issue or something that I would judge another human.

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I won't quite "come clean" because I try to keep my opinions to myself, for peace's sake. However, I will say that I agree with Spooky. It doesn't bother me. It never has, honest. I have quite a number of gay friends, and they're wonderful people.

(Well, I don't have very many friends, period, I tend to avoid them, but many of them HAVE been gay.)

Er. I hope my post before didn't sound anti-gay, because that wasn't my intent. That wasn't the point I was trying to make at all.

Bravo said:

holy ******* howd you get away w that?





lol

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don't overdo your newfound loophole, brav...they'll catch it and take it away.

I bet I could write one poem in the style of Shelley or Keats or any of these guys and stick those poems into books that contained all of their poems and I guarantee that almost no one could pick mine out from theirs.

Except for someone who happened to be an expert in that person's poems.

But no casual fan could spot mine against theirs.

That is my prediction!!

billythrilly7th said:

I bet I could write one poem in the style of Shelley or Keats or any of these guys and stick those poems into books that contained all of their poems and I guarantee that almost no one could pick mine out from theirs.

Except for someone who happened to be an expert in that person's poems.

But no casual fan could spot mine against theirs.

That is my prediction!!

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prove it by posting a Keats style poem in the Blue Rock thread.

Haskins: Whitman was brilliant
Bravo: He was gay [like it mattered]
SpookyWriter: bullsh!t... [say it isn't so]... please don't "smear" him...

Nah, there's nothing wrong with being "gay."

Bravo said:

and everyone, please give billy a negative rep for either not knowing what ozymandias or for not acknowledging its greatness.

thank you.

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*searches for negative rep point button*

billythrilly7th said:

Don't give me a negative rep point.

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so you read ozymandias?

Stew21 said:

prove it by posting a Keats style poem in the Blue Rock thread.

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That's not how the experiment works, because you'll know it was me.

But I promise I could write a Keats style poem and randomly stick it in Keats Big Book O'Poems and someone who wasn't a HUGE fan who knew all his poems would be unable to tell the difference.

*trish tightens haggis' dog collar and zaps him once.* hands off the neg reps! Down boy!

It looks like Keats speaks in some weird language.

I need an American poet or someone who writes in regular English and my prediction stands.

PeeDee said:

I hate it when I mention an author and someone says "S/he's gay, you can really see it in their work."

Because, yes, eventually you can see it. [...] I think the work should carry itself.

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It can, of course, carry itself and be about being gay.

Billy, yes, I think you'd like Walt. Among other things, I think you'd get his sense of humor as well as his passion.

billythrilly7th said:

It looks like Keats speaks in some weird language.

I need an American poet or someone who writes in regular English and my prediction stands.

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billythrilly7th said:

It looks like Keats speaks in some weird language.

I need an American poet or someone who writes in regular English and my prediction stands.

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Stew21 said:

*trish tightens haggis' dog collar and zaps him once.* hands off the neg reps! Down boy!

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*grumble...no fun...damn wimminz...grumble*

Blackheart said:

I am seriously going to put you against a wall and shoot you at dawn one day just for things like putting Nixon in my Walt Whitman thread. It's not even remotely possible to forgive this

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If it makes you feel better "Walt Whitman Bridge" by Marah is one of my favorite songs and is a staple in my ITUNES rotation.

"Got seven dollars to my name
Got sixteen cigarettes somehow I just ain't smoked yet
Got two shoelaces and two shoes
I should toss ‘em on the telephone wire as a monument to my blues

I'm goin' down to get a coffee
Gonna mean one less buck
Maybe six will bring me luck
Got a little shake I kept in the fridge
Gonna drink my bean and walk out smoking on the Walt Whitman Bridge

Faraway from these winter streets
On a cloudless day
Your memory
Blows away

Got a leather wallet on a chain
Got a picture of my lover's lips before they dried up under my kiss
A prayer in my heart I'm too scared to recite
Oughtta toss that stale loaf of words to the birds as a monument to my whole life"


Thank you.