From: Ashley Skye<BR>
Date: 17 June 2000<P>

I just want to apologize ahead of time for all my recent submissions, they are all soo depressing, im just having that sort of night.  Life is soo damn confusing, I don't understand and don't think I ever will about how things can upset us soo much to the point where we think that it's like equivilant to the end of the world.  Then eventually that sitaution gets better, and then your happy, then something happens, and your upset again.  It's neverending!! WOW, ive never been so pessimistic, I'm usually the optimist!! Well thanks for letting me get those feelings out!!  Im rambling now, but I have no noe else to ramble to!! Well I hope everyone has a good night!!! <BR>
                     *~ASHLEY~*(FEELING VERY BLAH)
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From: terry<BR>
Date: 17 June 2000<P>

Alexander Newfield ~ 'There Are No Free Lobster Dinners' makes me want to go start drinking  and make a weekend of it. You certainly captured the spirit of that work well.<BR>
t.
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From: terry<BR>
Date: 17 June 2000<P>

Eric ~ 'With eyes shut...I simply place the pen on the paper' is quite the discourse, and an interesting read. I was immediately struck afterward that 'Eyes Wide Shut' would have been a really good title, but I see the point of your choice. I took your comments earlier and read with your advice that the ellipsis (... thanks gup) were pauses. Now I see Paul's point earlier in action. As a reader that required effort to make continuation into a pause. Not any major or hard thing to do mind you, but noticable. It did not change the feelings your words envoked within me at all, but then i was privy to your explaination about pausing, which all readers may not be.<BR>
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You are an excellent writer, and this work did captivate my attention to the very end.<BR>
t.
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From: terry<BR>
Date: 17 June 2000<P>

ps. to Eric~ Since you made it 3/4 through that writing without use of the ellipsis, but they became prevelant toward the end, I was wondering...Was that a conscious effort on your part, or ingrained habit? And toward the end when you did use the ellipsis as a structural vehicle to imply a pause, were you more reflective of the actual words being written? As a reader that seems to be the case, and the psychological processes are fascinating...<BR>
t.
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From: Chris<BR>
Date: 17 June 2000<P>

Alexander,<BR>
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You are my hero! Guys like us gotta stick together. She'll come back. And if she doesn't, she was never yours to begin with. Or something like that. I forget how it goes...but it's true! Keep the faith, man...<BR>
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From: Luv Doctor ([email-masked])<BR>
Date: 17 June 2000<P>

Yo, Alexander! You talkin' about my babe? I got that distinct feeling. And she told me about this site, maybe hoping I'd get inspired and get all touchy-feely or something. Not gonna happen. Anyway...back off, buddy. Why would she think about you when she's got the Luv Doctor? Just something to ponder while your listening to Michael Bolton or whatever. 
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From: Angel<BR>
Date: 17 June 2000<P>

Alexander~ But did you make her feel loved...and while you were doing all these things for her, did you recognize any of the things she was doing for you...and did you ever run barefoot in the park with her and picnic on a lunch of crab salad and peanut butter and apples that you prepared together and sip cheap wine from styrofoam cups and watch the most beautiful movie of all spread out before you as you lay on a soft quilt with her in your arms gazing at stars while the whole world sleeps?<BR>
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nice work though :)
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From: Eric, [email-masked]<BR>
Date: 17 June 2000<P>

Thanks for the comments on my last one...<BR>
i didn't title it EyesWideShut cause...i hate copying<BR>
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When my eyes were actually open, during the writing...i didn't use "..." to please those here who don't appreciate it,   however,  when i closed my eyes...i used it cause of habit...take it however you want, i just needed to get all of that off my chest<BR>
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thank you for the nice comments everyone
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From: Toklas<BR>
Date: 17 June 2000<P>

Deevah and Gala, I love your collaboration! And Deevah the one you did of poem and painting on your own is also beautiful!<BR>
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I would really like to post those works in the online Art Gallery I am involved with.  I work for an online Art forum as the Forum Leader for art content.  We are putting up a new gallery that will include a room for collaborative art.<BR>
Would you let me include your joint work??<BR>
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Please email me and let me know asap.  [email-masked].<BR>
You would get a link to your homepages on the gallery.<BR>
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again - I do love the work!  <BR>
Tok
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From: Galadrial<BR>
Date: 17 June 2000<P>

Alexander?<BR>
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       No free lobster dinners? Wow. I am so---overwhelmed by this one...caught the moment...and I think you're a keeper...she must be totally nuts....<BR>
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                                      Love Gala
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From: Gala<BR>
Date: 17 June 2000<P>

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And so called "luv doctor"?<BR>
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I think you're walking malpractice bub...but that's okay...what goes around, comes around. <BR>
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But personally? I think you're a rude little shit.<BR>
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                                        So says Gala<BR>
                                        feeling too crappy to me tolerent
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From: Megs<BR>
Date: 17 June 2000<P>

Misti-  I have to agree that the last couple of lines of "A Much Sweeter Wet" are tight.  Perfecto mi favorite chica loca.  But where IS the email eh?  <BR>
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Ashley-  Email me.  Perhaps we can commiserate on depression, misery, rambling bad poems and how bad men suck.  Don't I wish you lived next door so we could go shopping or get massages or wallow in self pity and chocolate together.  All MY friends are blissful and happy.  LOL.  <BR>
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Eric-  Lots in that lil ramble...the Eyes Wide Shut one (but that isn't the title.)  Anyways...I am dying to know about this chica.  Fill me in.  Married? Kids?  Well who am I to talk...lol.<BR>
Ellipses galore for you my cousin.  See ya tonight........<BR>
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Gala-  Loved your take on the tiny hairs.  Made me giggle.  Take care of yourself FGM.  I am worrying 'bout you.<BR>
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Till Later...<BR>
Megs<BR>
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From: Michael (interesting times)<BR>
Date: 17 June 2000<P>

Eric ~ Thanks for the compliment! I can't process your newest stuff. Buffer overflow. "I thee wed" is pretty damn good. I understand why you use ..... in music you never really stop singing one word...and it's never really over until the song is over... I'll have to reread it again tomorrow. I need to go back to sleep.<BR>
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All ~  I really do appreciate and love a lot of the stuff being posted. To comment will take more time than I have today. I will though.
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From: deevaa [email-masked]<BR>
Date: 17 June 2000<P>

goodness -- I wasn't online for 24hrs and there is HEAPS happening on the board....<BR>
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Toks... thankyou for your kindness, I've done joint works with several other blender regulars.... Gala and I have done 2, Terry and I have 3 works, also Kev, the guppy and Isolde...some of which have even been on the front page.<BR>
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All of the joint works I've done bar the ones with Terry are on my web page (http://www.homepages.paradise.net.nz/~deevaa), Terry has the others on his page ( --- terry please fill in the blank)... let me know which ones you'd like to use.<BR>
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dee<BR>
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From: terry<BR>
Date: 17 June 2000<P>

Sure Dee ~ consider the blank filled. Toklas ~ those three are here:  http://www.geocities.com/awesternstateofmind/  just follow the link called 'the poetry'. The three works are 'The Story of Us', Stealing Images', and 'Digital Dancing'.  Here are the direct links if you want to cut and paste  to go directly to each:<BR>
http://www.geocities.com/awesternstateofmind/us.html<BR>
http://www.geocities.com/awesternstateofmind/digital_dancing.html<BR>
http://www.geocities.com/awesternstateofmind/stealing_images.html<BR>
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t.<BR>

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From: Daniel Rivera <BR>
Date: 17 June 2000<P>

I am in need of a poem to recite at my mothers wedding! I have no clue why she picked me, I think it is her sadistic nature.  Please send any poems that may be used on this occasion to [email-masked]
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From: Riggs<BR>
Date: 17 June 2000<P>

Oi! luv doctor<BR>
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Have a listen to Nirvana's Very Ape and then take a peek in the mirror. He could have been singing about you, you fucking neanderthal.
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