From: Misti<BR>
Date: 26 April 2000<P>

The muse is a madman pounding on my door.<BR>
But the door is double locked and it's time for a corn dog and some Coca-Cola spiked with Jack Daniels, so no poetry tonight. 
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From: misti in the mornin'<BR>
Date: 26 April 2000<P>

my eyes are bloodshot and my apartment is a wreck and i have five minutes to get ready for work but i am the most insanely bLisSed out chica loca in the world right now!<BR>
&lt;sigh&gt;
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From: gendy([email-masked]<BR>
Date: 26 April 2000<P>

i hate you
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From: kspeckham<BR>
Date: 26 April 2000<P>

These poems are really lousy - it's amazing how many people think they can write!
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From: the guppy<BR>
Date: 26 April 2000<P>

lousy?...as in full of lice?...i'll be the first to admit that i've written some louse-filled poems...but, what is art without a few macroinvertebrates sprinkled in?...<BR>
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gup
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From: the guppy<BR>
Date: 26 April 2000<P>

...and what is a vastly generalizing critic with either a god complex or a low self esteem complex without something to criticize?...happy?...tolerant of others?...blah blah blah?<BR>
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the latter, usually<BR>
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gup
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Date: 26 April 2000<P>

Love your work Misti
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From: Madison<BR>
Date: 26 April 2000<P>

guppy :) haHAHAHahaha you're too cute.
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From: kevin urenda<BR>
Date: 26 April 2000<P>

Hey gup!<BR>
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Maybe the annoynymous personage only likes picking nits, not fully hatched macroinvertebrates!  Or perhaps they were thrown out of critics school...  
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From: kevin (again)<BR>
Date: 26 April 2000<P>

OH!  <BR>
Gala-<BR>
very nicely done...  who wouldn't want the inevitability of THAT???<BR>
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-k
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From: Megs<BR>
Date: 26 April 2000<P>

Lots of good works here...<BR>
Gala- your latest was wonderful...and I sent you an email thanking you for my Easter goodies yesterday so don't be mad at me...AOL kicked me off for umm "too much mailing" Whatever.  :( So now I am all about yahoo!<BR>
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Dee- Thanks for even including me in your list of happy items up there.  It made me smile.<BR>
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I sent about EVERYONE an email yesterday sooooo I should have a full inbox of replies. <BR>
Have I been the LEAST creative person lately or what?  I have no inspiration...zero. zip.  Grrrrrrrrr...some little idea has to be bouncing around up there.  It would probably be an errrrrrrrr...lousy poem anyways *grin*.<BR>
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From: Megs<BR>
Date: 26 April 2000<P>

Oh and Mojave...YOUR latest was also perfectly wonderful *grin*   Sorry I forgot you.  <BR>
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From: deevaa<BR>
Date: 26 April 2000<P>

OK, I've just been knocked of my high... the bank turned down my loan application for frames, no frames means no exhibition.<BR>
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*^#&^@!*#@*#)@!!!!!
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From: the guppy<BR>
Date: 26 April 2000<P>

madi---too cute???...ha...i wish...i'm just cute enough to get by :)<BR>
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kev---i hear ya...you know, i don't mind people offering critical opinions...but i think they should be about specific things...people that say things like "everything here sucks" probably wander around saying that about everything in the world...there are a great many things in life that suck far worse than an open-submission romance poetry website such as this...i guess some people love blindly, and some people hate blindly...i prefer insight<BR>
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dee---wow...thanks so much for all the friendly praise...*blushing*...no idea where that came from, but thanks...you're a true friend<BR>
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enough of this chit chat...i've got math homework to be humiliated by...ha...later folks<BR>
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gup<BR>

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From: lanna<BR>
Date: 26 April 2000<P>

Hello, fellow Poets...& Poetesses (not a true word I am sure, but it fits the mood I am in, so I beg a little leeway for my abuse of the English language).<BR>
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Well, that was certainly an interesting take on the genaralization of sucky poems...although me personally...I prefer to have one poem suck than the whole damn lot of them...  :)  Alas...everyone is a critic (whether good or bad....)<BR>
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On to the Poetry...there is a lot of great stuff out there...I am forever amazed that you guys can write such touching pieces, and then come back with something more moving than the last.  Sorry for the generalization, there, but I happen to think that this bunch of people is great, and so is their work.<BR>
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That's it from me for today.  Having a problem with inspiration...don't know where it went off to, but I am sure it lies somewhere in the heart of Texas....<BR>
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Later....lanna
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