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From: wstrutin@lion.CSEE.Lehigh.Edu (wstrutin)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.poems
Subject: ... Adaptive (for eddie)
Keywords: the I in Parasite
Date: 12 Dec 92 21:50:06 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University


Adaptive
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what he needed to do was psychotic
in psychiatric eyes
who knew it all, but never saw
how fifteen years of pressure
affect the perfect child.

it was insane, they said
that his gaze had gone blank
when the anguish he ignored eclipsed his soul
by trying to survive
he built a separate self inside
of hallucinations he created
to lie for life

while the doctors without context
could not understand the complex
reasons this was the sanest thing he'd done,
drugged him to submission
thinking they'd convince him
what was real, and what was sick-
but they were wrong.


				\X/endy


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From: elee@napier.uwaterloo.ca (Salty Freckles)
Subject: poem untitled
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 23:49:23 GMT



			she
			dry-eyed tells me
			of a girl who with
			brand-new Gillette

			tried to carve guilt
			from unclean flesh
			and spoilt linen
			underneath
			and suffocating

			girl
			you are so
			dry-eyed and far away

			i am the
			angerfrustrationhopelessness
			of tight clenched fist
			and shaking rage
			nowhere to go

			and if you'd only tell me
			his name
			i'd tear his eyes out


					-Gene Lee

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From: megazone@obsidian.WPI.EDU (MegaZone23)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.poems
Subject: Re: HE CAME, NOT I
Date: 20 Dec 1992 00:35:58 GMT
Organization: WPI USAF -- United Society of Animation Fans
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In article <19DEC92.18173698@skyfox> e37larsen@skyfox writes:
>And, ever wonder how Joseph felt?   I mean, God slept with Mary before 
>Joseph supposedly did.  If Joseph gets mad at God, God could get awfully
>upset back...  

I don't know... I don't get angry over who more lovers may have slept with
before... I do think about it sometimes, but why should I be upset? It only
upsets me if they have abused some one that I care for... But maybe I'm, as
normal, not average in my thoughts...

>Strange thoughts such as these float through my brain now that exams are
>done and I really have time to think!

Arg... pardon me, I need to rant... nothing personal...

3 of 4 classes done... I still have the damn english paper to do and I'm stuck
as it is... it was due yesterday... I get to drive home tommorrow to spend the
holidays with my 'rents, working at a job I increasingly dislike in a town were
I have *0* friends... I get to spend xmas my birthday and new years away from
anyone I really would like to share them with...

I'd much ratehr stay at school and use the time to write more of Undocumented
Features, poetry, or the two plays I'm trying to do... I have to have them 
done by Feb. 1st... If I don't get them done by the submisison deadline I will
be very pissed... 

THe only plus is I signed up for Delphi so I can keep in touch with the nets
from home over break...

And I still have far too many businesses threatening collection actions if I
don't pay them the money I don't have....

Anyway, Happy Solstice...

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From: marek@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Marek Lugowski)
Subject: Re: like shakespeare -- jchien
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 18:42:10 GMT

In article <1992Dec15.103919.8750@leland.Stanford.EDU> jchien@leland.Stanford.EDU (Jennifer Crystal Fang-Chien) writes:
>
>
["like shakespeare" omitted]


I'm glad you are getting wise to the concept that the universe runs on fuck.
This includes biology and astrophysics, not that they are any different.
I am just making it easier to grasp by using more words, a storytelling thing.

However, it is silly to sound jaded at 19 with virginity still a fresh
memory or an on-going reality, whichever.

Write about what you know.  And don't come crying to me when the sun gets
fucked over by its diminishing hydrogen fusion (fucking) 5 billion years
from now and swallows your keyboard or what's left of it.


				-- Marek
From: jstc_ss@troi.cc.rochester.edu (j. collins)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.poems
Subject: poem: morning (c&c welcome)
Date: 17 Dec 92 14:43:01 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York


There is not much to say about this poem, I wrote it this morning after
I woke up.  I would like people's comments on it, I really do not like it
that much, but I have been wrong about my poetry before so that is why I am
posting it and why I am asking for c&c.  Thanks in advance

----------------------------------
      mornings

I awaken with a stir
  the dream proves to be unreal
the warmth of your body
  the serenity of your face
are no longer there

I look at the emptiness beside me
  wishing you were still there
I feel a sense of loss 
  understanding the mistakes of the past
wishing to make right what is wrong

I know I ask for too much
  knowing what is done is done
why do I keep hoping you ask
  because someday I wish
I wish to wake up beside you again

12/17/92
------------------------------------

peace,
-justin
Newsgroups: rec.arts.poems
Subject: Christmas stollen
From: jabolliger@miavx3.mid.muohio.edu
Date: 11 Dec 92 13:38:38 EST

		At Christmas I bake bread.
		A stollen full of black and gold raisins
		nuts, cherries, sweet butter, and yeast.

			I begin with yeast
		raising them in water
		with sugar, flour and a little salt.

		They rise slowly to the top of the bowl.
		Then I add more flour, the eggs, fruit and butter.

		Slower now they increase till doubled
		punched down; they rise again
				    and again

		The last ascent in the oven 
			they rise
		releasing fragrant lives.


Jean Ann 
12-9-92
Newsgroups: rec.arts.poems
From: mbalak@staff.tc.umn.edu (Michael A. Balak)
Subject: Embarrasement
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 17:44:23 GMT


Embarassement

Burning blood bursts up
Breeding briny brats
Upon a barren brow.
Bastards!! You betray my smile!

===========================================================================
Jason P. Cress			Preacher or poet who was it wrote
Professional layman		If you give a species too much rope
jase@pnet51.orb.mn.org		They'll f*ck it up.
						-Roger Waters
===========================================================================

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From: PROWSE@Meena.CC.URegina.CA (Natalie)
Subject: please don't be rude at my dinner table / Natalie
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 21:48:06 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.24
Organization: University of Regina, Regina, Sask., Canada

        
	please don't be rude at my dinner table
	---------------------------------------------------------------------	

	i will sip the wine 
	of your song.
	i will dine on the steps
	of your dance.
	i will avoid the acrid
	stinging scent of arrogance 
	entrenched in your ego and mine.
	i will swallow but once,
	the bitter taste
	of thoughtless words, and
	i will gain wisdom 
	in their painful passage.
	i will serve in return
        a savory supper of candid sincerity.
	i will not melt in your mouth 
	with morsels meant to mollify.
	i will be offensive
	only in defense.
	i will seem unreasonable,
	only when my reasons are not yours.
	
		-Natalie / Dec 15, 1992


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 "You want more diskquota??  Did you bring me some cheesecake?"
From: daq@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Doug Quarnstrom)
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 23:37:30 GMT
Subject: Re: fuck / jtrue
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: rec.arts.poems

In rec.arts.poems, jtrue@acpub.duke.edu (jtrue) writes:

> 
> -jtrue
> 
> PS:
> The biggest problem with
> fuck with respect to sex
> is that it essentially means hate
> (hence the violence;
> toward women by men).
>  

????

doug
Newsgroups: rec.arts.poems
From: bhattach@quip.eecs.umich.edu (sayan bhattacharyya)
Subject: Re: Woman Keats saw at railway station?
Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept., Ann Arbor, MI
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 20:09:14 GMT

In article <1992Dec12.195448.11217@zip.eecs.umich.edu> bhattach@quip.eecs.umich.edu (sayan bhattacharyya) writes:
>In article <1992Dec12.134756.1@cua.edu> 32downey@cua.edu writes:
>>On 4 Dec 1992 at 21:17:15, stellis@nyx.cs.du.edu (Steve Ellis) wrote:
>>
>>                           for a certain woman
>>
>>         more mysterious and distant than the woman Keats glimpsed
>>         in a railway station, you are not even an image:
>
>I am confused about this. Who is this woman that Keats saw in 
>a railway station and in which poem does she appear?
>
>I do remember a poem by Yeats, "Beautiful Lofty Things" in which
>he speaks of "Maud Gonne at Howrth station waiting a train"...but
>that was Yeats, not Keats.
>


And also, were there railway lines and railway stations in England
in the first few decades of the nineteenth century, when Keats lived?
(I believe he died in the 1820's).




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From: jacobs@cerritos.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.poems
Subject: Re: like shakespeare -- jchien
Date: 15 Dec 92 19:12:38 PST
Organization: Cerritos College, Norwalk CA

In article <1992Dec15.183929@IASTATE.EDU>, mcoffin@IASTATE.EDU (Marie Coffin) writes:
> Jennifer -- are we reading the same Shakespeare?  The Shakespeare 
> I remember is full of bawdy jokes and remarks.  And not much about 
> denuding flowers.  People sometimes think Shakespeare put things 
> "delicately", but I doubt if his audience thought so.  It's mostly 
> the differences in language that make us think he's being delicate.  
> Of course, he never actually used "fuck"...that I recall, anyway.  
> Maybe that was your point.
> 
> 
> Marie Coffin

Well, I think that Jennifer did make a valid point, at least from what I get
from her poem. There is too much in-your-face sex in order to sell a product
and I think that's what Jennifer was trying to say. Even though Shakespeare
made references to sex, some fairly bawdy, his work was still nowhere near as
crude as most current trash. I am a Communications major and I see a great
problem with how the media acts concering this.

Just my $0.02

-- 



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				      and Raider fan, how ironic!!! :)
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From: an1977@anon.penet.fi (The_Poet)
Subject: KILL files - syntax
X-Anonymously-To: rec.arts.poems
Organization: Anonymous contact service
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 19:59:24 GMT


OK, the syntax for doing kill lines for groups of subjects (such as all Re:)
is easy, you just do 

/: Re:* /:     

However, Does anyone know what the syntax is for putting in a line to
kill by AUTHOR?  My reader can't do it on its own, but I KNOW it can be done,
so, anyone having the sytax of that, PLEASE post for all the net to know.

(Yes, I DID say post.  Did I shock you?)

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From: marek@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Marek Lugowski)
Subject: Re: tell me if it hurts
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 17:12:45 GMT

In article <BzBvCn.4BI@iphasew.com> hwajin@iphasew.com (Hwa-Jin Bae) writes:
>
>
>	a city not a town
>	-----------------
>
>	westward the course of empire takes its way
>	down in the people's park
>	nobody finds it unusual to find
>	a memorial for the late rosebud girl
>	decorating competing posters:
>	fuck freedom play ball
>	play ball & support the police state
>
>	contrary to popular belief
>	pedestrians do not rule the streets around here
>	only the cars with bumper stickers declaring:
>	love your mother -- this is your drugs
>	this is your drugs on your brain -- or
>	a personal favoriate --
>	u.s. out of berkeley
>
>	in xanadu kublai khan decreed his pleasure dome
>	rest of us reside here as bishops intended
>	prefering instead chance encounters with locals
>	call me ishmael reed waiting in line for
>	straight no chaser
>	a monkey's paw
>
>	manhattan has its tribeca berkeley has oakland
>	a shot and a beer costs $1.50
>	an all day matinee $3.50
>	a 3x magazine $11.50
>	a pack of camel $2.50
>
>	in warehouses yupped up beyond all recognition
>	we pretend
>	even better than the real thing
>	just like a woman
>	just like a little girl
>

Ah.  Yet another poem to break/denude/pluck at Jennifer's pure heart.
2 marks, and not just for using fuck with grace and precsion.

Great poem.  Fix the obvious typo.

				-- Marek
From: blosser_cy@lrc.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.poems
Subject: sometimes
Date: 11 Dec 92 13:33:01 EST
Organization: Lenoir-Rhyne College, Hickory, NC

sometimes you can open doorways 
into the recesses of your mind,
you later wish you'd left shut.

		sometimes sight can be a curse,
		the blind far more content than 
		you'd ever hope to be.

sometimes they will try to drag
you down.

		sometimes reality can overwhelm
		your soul, the emptiness inside
		gnawing like a cancer until you
		want to leave.

sometimes the other side is far
more inviting.

sometimes you can walk the edge
of madness.

		sometimes you wonder why, other 
		times you just sit and cry, but
		most of the time, you just want
		to die.
Newsgroups: rec.arts.poems
From: 78witherspoo@cua.edu
Subject: Dead man's boots/for Marek+Marie
Organization: The Catholic University of America
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 01:48:53 GMT



	I am wearing a dead man's boots
	-------------------------------

	if I can get this man out of my mind
	I might feel the tiniest relief
	for THIS WICKED BODY is a burden.

	these boots feel so good
	used, like the dead man
	he committed suicide
	THE ULTIMATE IN MASTURBATION.

	my mind is
	breaking
	down;

	my will is holding me up
	sheer force of I AM DOING EVERYTHING WRONG.

	don't take these boots from me
	they make me alive
	like when I pass the three-car pileup 
	and whistle past the graveyards.

	"Welcome to Hell.  No pity here."-- Heiner Muller


C&C appreciated.

Tom W(itherspoon)

78witherspoo@cua.edu
From: e37larsen@skyfox
Newsgroups: rec.arts.poems
Subject: RE: poem: a star
Date: 15 DEC 92 14:16:06 GMT
Organization: University of Saskatchewan
NNTP-Posting-Host: sask.usask.ca

In a previous article, jstc_ss@troi.cc.rochester.edu (j. collins) wrote:
>this is one of the few poems I have ever written, and this is the first
>I have ever posted.  I am very interested in hearing people's comments
>on it.  Thanks...
> 
>----------------------------------------
>       a star
> 
>a star shined in the distance
        ^^^^^^
I'll grant you poetic licence, but "SHINED" ???????!!!

When the rest of the poem is in plain English, it's nice to use proper
English all the way through :).



Trina Larsen
E37Larsen@sask.usask.ca


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From: sp15@quads.uchicago.edu (steven  paul)
Subject: HE CAME, NOT I
Reply-To: sp15@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 08:55:31 GMT




"HE CAME, NOT I"  -- Steven E. Paul


Sheets wet with sex, blankets tossed upon cold tile...
Clothing desperately clinging to bed posts, 
Pillows supporting...
    Comforting...
    Hiding...
    Fevered flesh...
    Kneeling before GOD...

I saw as HE came

Holy fetishes cetered around holier relics...

    I gave testiment to him...
      He took upon himself my prayers--
        Carnal moans and yearnings...

        Delieverence has never been so fulfilling--
   Communion, never so gratifying...

        I think I'll come
    To His Church...

        ...MORE OFTEN...

-- 
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STEVEN E. PAUL                         *   "A LOVER WHO HAS KNOWN NO LOVE...
sp15@midway.uchicago.edu               *             THIS AM I..."
                                       *
From: jstc_ss@troi.cc.rochester.edu (j. collins)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.poems
Subject: Re: Suggestion for Reducing Traffic
Date: 14 Dec 92 05:49:14 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York

In <6093@sumax.seattleu.edu> sstover@sumax.seattleu.edu (   Wilde Dame   ) writes:

>Disclaimer in apprehension of complaints: no, I have not read r.a.p for
>several days.  So, I'm commenting on the original article.  Pardon any
>repetition.  However, deal with it. :)

>In article <1992Dec6.112618.29599@leland.Stanford.EDU> jchien@leland.Stanford.EDU (Jennifer Crystal Fang-Chien) writes:
>>
>>	Just a suggestion here for creating a sub-group of
>>rec.arts.poems.d (for discussion) or r.a.p.comments or something of
>>that sort, so that r.a.p. would consist of poems only, where the other
>>group would include feedback, replies, and flames.  It would reduce the
>>number of posts to sort through, and also would help those who wish
>>to only read poems.
>>
>>			What do you all think?

>I heartily agree.  r.a.p.d is the standard form for this, I believe (cf.
>rec.humor.d, etc.) and I think it would be really useful.  However, most
>of those groups require a moderator (at least rec.humor and
>rec.humor.oracle) to ensure that articles to to the right place.  Are we
>capable of handling this on our own? I would hate, on principle, to see
>r.a.p become a moderated group.

>-- 
>       Sheryl Stover  %  If you ask me what I have come to do in the world,
>  & Hemingway & Clio  %  I who am an artist, I will reply: "I am here to
>sstover@seattleu.edu  %  live aloud."                    -Emile Zola

actually I do not think rec.humor is moderated.  rec.humor.funny is though,
(I think).  I agree also that we should get r.a.p.d.  Like everyone else
I like reading comments and the discussion, but I would like to have it 
seperate from the posting of the poems.  I also think we would be able
of handling this on our own, unlike some other newsgroups out there this
one rarely gets ugly. (IMHO)

peace,
-justin m. collins <jstc_ss@troi.cc.rochester.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.poems
Subject: Regret in Two Acts
From: loredich@miavx3.mid.muohio.edu (That one girl)
Date: 14 Dec 92 13:56:23 EST

Regret in Two Acts


i. Friday night

I tore your shirt and scattered
your buttons, confettied them in bright
light flakes.

The whiskeyed tang of your
tongue on mine burned dry, and when I
closed my eyes the dark was hot and sharp.

Oh, and so
was your cry of joy.


ii. Saturday afternoon.

A glass of water was all I wanted.  Not to
be your breakfast.  I'm not four food groups,
three square meals.

I even regretted the soured fruit in
last night's drinks.  Fleshy cherries, sweet last night,
left a bitter aftertaste.

And there you were, chipper and clever like
a Saturday morning cartoon.  But it was after
noon, and I didn't want to play.



Loredich
November, 1992
Breakfast, anyone?
Newsgroups: rec.arts.poems
Subject: Riding the Gray Pachyderm
From: marsee@ab.wvnet.edu
Date: 12 Dec 92 22:20:09 -0500
Organization: Alderson-Broaddus College

	Riding the Gray Pachyderm

I am the traveler
Where I go-- you shall go also,
For I have seen many things.

I feel the cold splash of the ocean as the
little rubber raft pulls away from the 
massive sinking ship,
they once called unsinkable.

Playing with the Monarches I run and skip
over the rolling green hills of Tennessee,
my bare feet stained with grass and mud.

Climbing the tree outside my bedroom window I
feel the wind pulling at my hair-- pulling 
for me to come and play.

Dragging my feet through the warm white 
sand in Keil, I allow the sun to warm
my skin;  I am very reluctant to return to the 
path that leads to my home and my housework.

Riding the gray pachyderm, the jungle heat
causes my forehead to bead with sweat.  As it
begins to trickle down my face--
I can hear the roar of the lion we are 
hunting-- Pausing, I adjust the strap of my rifle,
although my heart is beating very fast,
I shall show no fear.
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Newsgroups: rec.arts.poems
Subject: Re: Kittens - C&C Welcome
Date: 14 Dec 1992 20:20:29 GMT
Organization: WPI USAF -- United Society of Animation Fans
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In article <92348.123912X67107@BARILVM.BITNET> X67107@BARILVM.BITNET writes:
>      A more heart breaking
>      sight except
>      The starving children watching......

Cool.... I like it... nicely warped....

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From: sheilah@wam.umd.edu (Danny-Boy)
Subject: Technology was "linear thought"
Followup-To: rec.arts.poems,rec.arts.books
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 15:32:53 GMT

<1992Dec14.024429.5126@cs.ucla.edu> lichter@oahu.cs.ucla.edu 
Michael I. Lichter writes:
"associational leaps far beyond the capabilities of present-day technology"

and then discusses a gre or any common standardized test.
creates two questions of his own, which I enjoyed.

But this brings up a fasignating concept of technology that I usually
ignore, because when tech comes up I fixate on mechanical things.

Michael brings it up with his ideas for new tests. 
from the juxtaposition of his words "present-day tech" and his
discussion of tests, and creation of his own, I learn the idea:

A test can be a technological advancment.

This leads me to:

Grammer is a technology.

Which I really should have thought of before, in the light of many
books I am reading.

This is keenly interesting. I love it.

Although, I disagree that association is a new grammer or new technology,
because it is nothing new.
Although, it could be a new idea, _Occasionaly_ to use association in
places you don't expect. But this _technique_ is not knew. 

I guess a new technique would be a new grammer would be a new technology.

If anyone responds to this, please alter newsgroup lines accordingly.
I've included rec.arts.books for any book relevences that could exist.
rec.arts.poems becuase it started here, and part of the technology is
poetic technique, alt.cyberpunk, becuase they seemed to be concerned
with how new technologies affect society.
-- 
I am always wrong. Don't believe me ever.
stark raving sane  sheilah@wam.umd.edu