George Dance pinched out a steaming pile
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>On Aug 16, 10:19 am, metro-golden-meower
>meo...@meow.org> wrote:
>> On 16 Aug 2007 14:45:29 GMT, §ñühw¤£f wrote:
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>> >Dennis M. Hammes pinched out a steaming pile
>> >of:
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>> >>knoxy wrote:
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>> >>> Nah, if I'm going to insult someone, I can do a lot better than
>> >>> "pisswit" or "pisswank". I leave those kinda insults to you
poetry
>> >>> people.
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>> >>Knoxy, meet George.
>> >> He doesn't believe there are such things as "poetry people."
>> >> He's a pisswit, too.
>> >> Have fun.
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>> >Ohhhh! *poetry* people...thats an unhealthy lifestyle...to be a
true
>> >poetry person you have to stay hammered all of the time.
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>> >THINK JIM MORISSON!
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>> think samuel colridge, bryon and all the other drugged out word
>> smiths.
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>Never confuse "poetry people" with poets. The major difference seems
>to be: A poet writes poetry, while a "poetry person" merely reads and
>discusses the poetry of others. IOW, poets are players while "poetry
>people" are spectators, cheerleaders, or at best paying readers.
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>One reason the two get confused is that some "poetry people" do
>produce quasi-poetical writing, of a sort; e.g.:
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>O, we are the Poetry People
>Met under the r.a.p. steeple,
> Refusing to topple
> For paper the popple
>No matter the average creep'll.
> - Dennis M. Hammes
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that isnt a proper poem
its more limmerick than poetry
ee cummings was a real poet
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