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Grex > Poetry > #123: Taming the scholarly crimson tide | |
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lumen
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Taming the scholarly crimson tide
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Aug 13 21:18 UTC 1999 |
It's that time of the quarter
when I'm beginning to menustrate
under the crunchtime pressure.
No sperm of inspiration has fertilized me yet,
and I feel like I'm hemmoraging
in a bloody mess.
Not for four days,
but for weeks and weeks at a time.
It's irregular.
Although it usually comes at the end,
it can hit any time.
They call it "finals week,"
but it can be much worse anytime before.
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lumen
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response 1 of 7:
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Aug 16 23:26 UTC 1999 |
ok, damnit, so I know the topic is something I've done before, but I thought
new imagery would make a nice poem and it was terribly theraputic.
no comments at all?
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orinoco
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response 2 of 7:
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Aug 21 03:18 UTC 1999 |
Wow....this is, um...
It's a pretty skillful use of what could have been a really crude image. As
is, it just sort of mentally knocked the wind out of me. I don't know if I
liked it or not, but it really hit me.
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lumen
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response 3 of 7:
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Sep 28 20:33 UTC 1999 |
Awesome! I got exactly the response I was looking for :) I wasn't
expecting anyone to really like it, since it was another one of those
'I'm cracking under the stress of school' poems.
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lumen
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response 4 of 7:
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Sep 29 22:46 UTC 1999 |
I guess this poem is too controversial for anyone else to comment on?
Maybe it would be more interesting if a woman took a serious subject and
made an analogy to a wet dream or something..
Bloody hell. (Pun intended.)
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cloud
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response 5 of 7:
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Dec 28 09:15 UTC 1999 |
er, yeah. I'll have to tread lightly around this one.
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lumen
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response 6 of 7:
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Jan 12 02:06 UTC 2000 |
okay, so it was coarse, but then I've almost always written in a
cathartic manner.
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ponder
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response 7 of 7:
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Jan 12 02:20 UTC 2000 |
This poem is really...
Um...
Really you, Jon. Very good imagery.
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