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topcat · 07-23-2007, 01:41 PM

we post, no lurking. i see you all over there. been gone a week and got nothing to say for yourselfs

brightpearl · 07-23-2007, 01:43 PM

I think everyone is probably waiting for more info, or hoping that someone will pinch them and they'll wake up.

Peregrine · 07-23-2007, 01:47 PM

Fine, I won't lurk. But damn it, I'm going kicking and screaming.

Marcus Bales · 07-23-2007, 02:01 PM

Online Squabbles

Ah God! The petty fools who race
To shriek and sweat in pygmy flames
And fill indifferent cyberspace
With incoherent language games;

Who hate each other for a phrase
And do their little bests to spite
Their interlocutors in frays
That even lightweights think are light;

Who strain to make shrill voices heard
And just to get attention will
Devoutly swear to what’s absurd
Or swallow others’ poison swill.

We need good-will to disagree
Agreeably if we would speak
When reason’s lost in passion’s fee
Or rage makes resolution weak.

Since I, too, speak before I think --
Or think I’ve thought when I have not --
And throw in even the kitchen sink
Instead of the towel as I ought,

I’m sorry, then if I have played
Too fast with slow, or slow with fast ones --
And hope whatever nerves I’ve frayed
Were not somebody’s very last ones.

surflugen · 07-23-2007, 02:07 PM

Nicely done Marcus.
It's bright moments like these that I may miss the most.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Marcus Bales

Online Squabbles

Ah God! The petty fools who race
To shriek and sweat in pygmy flames
And fill indifferent cyberspace
With incoherent language games;

Who hate each other for a phrase
And do their little bests to spite
Their interlocutors in frays
That even lightweights think are light;

Who strain to make shrill voices heard
And just to get attention will
Devoutly swear to what’s absurd
Or swallow others’ poison swill.

We need good-will to disagree
Agreeably if we would speak
When reason’s lost in passion’s fee
Or rage makes resolution weak.

Since I, too, speak before I think --
Or think I’ve thought when I have not --
And throw in even the kitchen sink
Instead of the towel as I ought,

I’m sorry, then if I have played
Too fast with slow, or slow with fast ones --
And hope whatever nerves I’ve frayed
Were not somebody’s very last ones.

brightpearl · 07-23-2007, 02:02 PM

Yeah, lately it's seemed like I was losing something every day, and this should just be one more thing on the list, but..

My last nerve? I've been borrowing them from others on credit for weeks.

T.I.P. · 07-23-2007, 02:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by brightpearl

My last nerve? I've been borrowing them from others on credit for weeks.

^ what's a few nerves between friends ?

you have an infinite tab as far as i am concerned

lukkucairi · 07-23-2007, 02:23 PM

I'm here...still got nothing to say for myselfs though

for the rest of y'all...

agree with surflugen - great poem, marcus.

thanks for the thread and the collards, topcat

brightpearl, people are always telling me I've got a nerve, so I'll lend it to you since you need it so much

T.I.P. you know where I'm at

peregrine, rage against the dying of the light!

07-23-2007, 01:41 PM	#1
topcat monkey Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: across the st. from the telephone pole Posts: 1,970	IN THIS THREAD we post, no lurking. i see you all over there. been gone a week and got nothing to say for yourselfs __________________ the most tip top topcat This is an internet bulletin board. Nothing more. Nothing less

07-23-2007, 02:01 PM	#4
Marcus Bales ________________ Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: In a coign of the cliff between lowland and highland, at the sea-down's edge between windward and lee, walled round with rocks as an inland island, the ghost of a garden fronts the sea. Posts: 8,967	Online Squabbles Ah God! The petty fools who race To shriek and sweat in pygmy flames And fill indifferent cyberspace With incoherent language games; Who hate each other for a phrase And do their little bests to spite Their interlocutors in frays That even lightweights think are light; Who strain to make shrill voices heard And just to get attention will Devoutly swear to what’s absurd Or swallow others’ poison swill. We need good-will to disagree Agreeably if we would speak When reason’s lost in passion’s fee Or rage makes resolution weak. Since I, too, speak before I think -- Or think I’ve thought when I have not -- And throw in even the kitchen sink Instead of the towel as I ought, I’m sorry, then if I have played Too fast with slow, or slow with fast ones -- And hope whatever nerves I’ve frayed Were not somebody’s very last ones. __________________ My strength is as the strength of eight -- My heart is nearly pure.

07-23-2007, 02:23 PM	#8
lukkucairi earth worker Join Date: May 2006 Location: on the planet Posts: 5,844	I'm here...still got nothing to say for myselfs though for the rest of y'all... agree with surflugen - great poem, marcus. thanks for the thread and the collards, topcat brightpearl, people are always telling me I've got a nerve, so I'll lend it to you since you need it so much T.I.P. you know where I'm at peregrine, rage against the dying of the light! Last edited by lukkucairi : 07-23-2007 at 02:25 PM.

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07-23-2007, 01:43 PM	#2
brightpearl Rhinoceros fan Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 8,749	I think everyone is probably waiting for more info, or hoping that someone will pinch them and they'll wake up.

07-23-2007, 01:47 PM	#3
Peregrine Bird of Prey Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 249	Fine, I won't lurk. But damn it, I'm going kicking and screaming.

07-23-2007, 02:02 PM	#6
brightpearl Rhinoceros fan Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 8,749	Yeah, lately it's seemed like I was losing something every day, and this should just be one more thing on the list, but.. My last nerve? I've been borrowing them from others on credit for weeks.