From: Chris<BR>
Date: 26 February 2001<P>

Michael,<BR>
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Good to see you're back. Liked the newest. Misti and I cracked up. We're shopping for a couch and coffee table, so we can relate.
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From: anonymous<BR>
Date: 26 February 2001<P>

seems the blender has been regenerated. look at all these new voices... where'd all the old folks go? to pulpy heaven? where is the genius of dee? kevin? the fairy godmother? that little fish?
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From: the guppy<BR>
Date: 26 February 2001<P>

this little fish's genius is and always was nonexistent...my writing has been craptacular lately, and i'm just caught up in some winter blues funk...i long for green<BR>
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there have been lots of new authors lately, but some of them have familiar trains of thought and references chugging through them...leading me to think they're not new authors, just new pseudonyms...i might be wrong...who knows?<BR>
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michael---i relate to your furniture sub...i hate that...ha...nice writing<BR>
mistinchris---you guys feed off each other...i'm impressed by what both of you have been coming up with lately<BR>
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out,<BR>
gup
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From: Anonymous, [email-masked]<BR>
Date: 26 February 2001<P>

To Ali, oh Ali- Your Summer Warm did something move me...<BR>
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May I dream it an answer, a "wink and a grin," from beyond unrequitable walls?<BR>
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what a treasure unlooked for...
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From: Riggs<BR>
Date: 26 February 2001<P>

hey hey slug i can't believe you know the whitlams. almost none of our aussie bands make it overseas. Folks i tell you, if you want to hear magnificent australian music you need to start searching for MP3's by Brisbane's own Powderfinger.
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From: A Concerned Reader<BR>
Date: 26 February 2001<P>

Kirk~<BR>
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The misspellings are becoming an atrocity!!  What about a spell checking engine???<BR>
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Or, why don't those submitting write the poem on a word-processing program, then cut and paste onto the submissions form??
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From: Misti/perry/Curtis/Michelangela/German Chocolate/Sylvan<BR>
Date: 26 February 2001<P>

guppy~<BR>
thank you. i think lately we've been feeding off each other in a bad way. we've taken our boredom out on the Blender. we only took one break during the weekend...went to a Mardi Gras parade on Sunday and caught some beads. i just didn't feel inspired to write anything as Misti Lake. i was feeling silly.
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From: Misti/Benji Boland<BR>
Date: 26 February 2001<P>

oops...forgot one.
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From: the guppy<BR>
Date: 26 February 2001<P>

mistinchris---kinda thought you guys were the multiple personalities...most of your poems have edges to them that distinguish them from other people's styles...seldomly do a bunch of new people submit good works all in a row...i'm not saying that it doesn't happen, it just doesn't happen very often...and that's a subjective opinion based on the things that catch my attention<BR>
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gup
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From: slug<BR>
Date: 26 February 2001<P>

riggs: LOVE powderfinger. my sister spent a year and a half in china - and her best friend is from some little place in australia. they merged music and i have flourished because of it. if it were up to me - australian music would saturate the world :-)
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From: Anonymous, [email-masked]<BR>
Date: 26 February 2001<P>

To BK- I wanna play hooky...<BR>
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And thanks again!  It's good to know that yall'll be here; if I ever can convince myself again of my own shining in rhythm or rhyme I'll make bold expose myself here.  In the meantime, dance on!  I'll be watching...
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From: Ali<BR>
Date: 26 February 2001<P>

Terry~ Where are you, dear?? I miss your sweet words...please write...I miss your work very much...<BR>
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Anonymous~ 'A wink and a grin' back to you...<BR>
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Love and Dreams, Ali
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From: Little Scotty<BR>
Date: 26 February 2001<P>

Mr. Conserned Reader,<BR>
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I am sorrey about my bad spelling. I am ten years old what do you whant.
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From: Anonymous<BR>
Date: 26 February 2001<P>

Hey, Ali- (one more bit, okay?)- That line:<BR>
"You left, and did not catch me, when I did fall"<BR>
really caught me... I wish I could express so compressedly.<BR>
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I caught a quote the other day that went something like- "Hell begins on the day when God grants us clear view of all that we might have acheived...of all that we might have done which we did not do."  So true, eh?  Yet all opportunities are not valid.
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From: 'nuther conserned reeder<BR>
Date: 26 February 2001<P>

Little Scotty sounds a little Sharky to me...hmmm
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From: Little Scotty<BR>
Date: 26 February 2001<P>

What does Sharky mean? Im just a little kid with these fealings inside of me. My Mom and Dad got me a computer for my birthday. All Im doing is haveing fun.
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Date: 26 February 2001<P>

why does this smell so fishy???
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From: Galadrial<BR>
Date: 26 February 2001<P>

What in the name of Christ is going on here? <BR>
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                                         Gala
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From: Ali<BR>
Date: 26 February 2001<P>

Anonymous~ You make me smile,you know that? I'm glad you liked the poem...I tried to pick a favorite line from your poem, but I cannot, for I like it all...Oh, and that quote that you shared, love it! I'm going write it down! My favorite quote ever is this: "To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world". It's just something that has stuck with me...<BR>
Love and starlight, Ali
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From: scqueen<BR>
Date: 26 February 2001<P>

Dee ~ I hope your night 12 is awesome :-)
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From: cee<BR>
Date: 26 February 2001<P>

im sorry for my bad spelling ,, it was a long day , and a quick re type of all of my things .. you got the jist of things ,,, Right ??  next time ,, i supose i will have to take ones adivice , since it so bothers one .. input is input , negitave or positive .. so ,, thanks ...<BR>
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Lates
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Date: 26 February 2001<P>

Just a few lines from someone that cares. Hey all you poets that think they have to ram it all down our throats in one write. PLEASE DON'T. Give it to us a bit at a time, say one or two poems at a wack and we can take time and savor the words. When you put it all out at once, it becomes a skim read, for me anyway. 
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From: deevaa<BR>
Date: 26 February 2001<P>

scqueen... that'll be my Day 23, I think, I might have to re-count, but it'll be 23 days by then.
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Date: 26 February 2001<P>

Joey I enjoy your submissions but I think maybe you went too far with the last one. Take a breather.
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From: BK<BR>
Date: 26 February 2001<P>

Joey, honey that was magnificent, I haven't laughed so hard in one poem since Edgar Allen Poe, you know that pit thingy.<BR>
He was the one that said the only real poem was a short one. I dont know, I sort of like them medium length myself, just long enough to hit the G...never mind.<BR>
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bk
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From: Joey<BR>
Date: 26 February 2001<P>

Thank-you. I don't know what to say. My poetry is like an avalanche, like an avalance that's only just started coming down the mountain. You flatter me. I've never been mentioned in the same sentence as Poe before. I've got "The Raven" memorized. I don't know what to say.
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