tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165603762522014470.post7929124245985995452..comments2023-08-17T11:04:19.748-04:00Comments on submission & metaphor: Thought controloatmeal girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12842608615972752000noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165603762522014470.post-85535493723226591452008-12-20T18:11:00.000-05:002008-12-20T18:11:00.000-05:00It's hard to reply to you all... I glance at what ...It's hard to reply to you all... I glance at what I wrote and start crying when I hit the last 3 lines. Each and every time. But I'll try.<BR/><BR/>Thanks, TFP - I do always love seeing you here. Are you referring to personal meaning?<BR/><BR/>We made this beautiful, complicated eggplant dish together for the party, which took hours. Cooking together. I always wanted to do that. We unmolded it to applause. A lovely and sad memory.<BR/><BR/>Thank you, Paul. Sometimes I worry about the poetry, especially the depressing stuff, that it drives away masses searching for jerk-off material guaranteed to get them hard or wet. And then I think what the hell, this is my place to mouth of and leave my scribblings, and I'm happy to have the handful of you along to shore up my ego.<BR/><BR/>Yup. I'm definitely struggling this week.<BR/><BR/>mamacrow, it's not broke exactly p that refers more to my financial situation than to my spirit. But it's numb and weepy, and I'm wishing i had gone down to Austin or Tucson for a couple of weeks of sun. I'll have to save up vacation days for a little trip next year.<BR/><BR/>I haven't even put up my solstice decorations this year!oatmeal girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12842608615972752000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165603762522014470.post-67919233905011308762008-12-20T17:37:00.000-05:002008-12-20T17:37:00.000-05:00oh babe. (((hugs)))spookily the word verification ...oh babe. (((hugs)))<BR/><BR/>spookily the word verification I'm just about to type in is 'broke'<BR/><BR/>here's hoping your spirit isn't, babemamacrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16484565827023574347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165603762522014470.post-46274241637320321562008-12-19T13:27:00.000-05:002008-12-19T13:27:00.000-05:00OG I love it when you write poetry.Warm hugs,Paul....OG I love it when you write poetry.<BR/>Warm hugs,<BR/>Paul.Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03790580459962602757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165603762522014470.post-61166207582010489352008-12-19T06:41:00.000-05:002008-12-19T06:41:00.000-05:00og,Lovely, meaningful....thank you-TFPog,<BR/><BR/>Lovely, meaningful....<BR/>thank you<BR/><BR/>-TFPTFPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10489122702555254081noreply@blogger.com