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  • Re: "Yom Kippur" compared to two Psalms

    Hi Foobs, What you say may well be tied into the very viewpoint that Schultz seems to express: the Reform Jewish viewpoint, if not something more liberal still. (For that or for some other reason, he may well be something of an outsider to his own people's religious tradition. It would be interesting to cross-check his C.V. and find out.) Take a ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on August 29, 2008
  • Re: Wretched execution (right job, wrong tool)

    Interesting explanation of what you think is the problem. Maybe in my case, the problem is that I write like I read and I read like I write. Either way, I get almost as puzzled as you at what we get on Tuesdays. Wretched execution, eh? Why then is the language so relatively elegant of itself? That's worth thinking about. It's as if the condemned ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on August 22, 2008
  • Re: A bristle of wings on the anime

    Foobs:As a huge Hayao Miyazaki fan, I feel compelled to ask what anime you've been watching... Reading the other posts about the poem, I'm struck by how different all the ''what it's about''s are. To my mind, if people don't agree on what you're saying, you either aren't saying anything or you aren't saying it well. There are certainly ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on August 13, 2008
  • Enormous LOL!!!! :)

    Killer! This is getting more fun as it goes... :) Point taken: I keep forgetting the difference between my style of parody and your style of mockery (or of resurrection). Bon weekend,wr ()()
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 25, 2008