tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165603762522014470.post8697164375473953576..comments2023-08-17T11:04:19.748-04:00Comments on submission & metaphor: The Poetry Sweatshopoatmeal girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12842608615972752000noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165603762522014470.post-29537479540585229222008-10-20T09:56:00.000-04:002008-10-20T09:56:00.000-04:00Oatmeal, very good with a great edge.I'm glad that...Oatmeal, very good with a great edge.<BR/>I'm glad that your owner approves.<BR/>Warm hugs,<BR/>Paul.Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03790580459962602757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165603762522014470.post-36595762689205282402008-10-20T06:30:00.000-04:002008-10-20T06:30:00.000-04:00Wow!thank you,-TFPWow!<BR/><BR/>thank you,<BR/>-TFPAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165603762522014470.post-57244449095657680262008-10-20T00:35:00.000-04:002008-10-20T00:35:00.000-04:00I don't comment very often, actually I'm not sure ...I don't comment very often, actually I'm not sure if I ever have, but I've been reading now for...a long time. Dunno why I haven't ever commented before. <BR/><BR/>I love this, I think it's beautiful and clever and almost a little funny. Plus it's hot. Good jobAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12809349157276515648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165603762522014470.post-59180971571089567612008-10-20T00:20:00.000-04:002008-10-20T00:20:00.000-04:00The philosopher doesn't comment publicly. I hope h...The philosopher doesn't comment publicly. I hope he doesn't mind my sharing this:<BR/><BR/>"I like it kitten. Dickensian and Kafkaesque, with a definite hint of Roissy."<BR/><BR/>Sounds rather like a bizarre sort of wine description...oatmeal girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12842608615972752000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165603762522014470.post-86437517814929702952008-10-20T00:18:00.000-04:002008-10-20T00:18:00.000-04:00Thanks, Meg. I'm glad you liked it - and that I ac...Thanks, Meg. I'm glad you liked it - and that I accidentally plugged into old fantasies! <BR/><BR/>Perhaps next door is a music sweatshop. Maybe I would have practiced piano more as a child if I had been spanked every day I missed a session. (I was never spanked at all. I was a Spock baby, and my parents didn't believe in it. of course I turned out highly neurotic anyway, but that's another story...)oatmeal girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12842608615972752000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165603762522014470.post-34278990024683223842008-10-19T23:49:00.000-04:002008-10-19T23:49:00.000-04:00this was wonderful! i loved it; it conjured up lo...this was wonderful! i loved it; it conjured up lots of images of old factories, but instead of scary machinery, the little desks and chained poets. i think as a child i often had fantasies about this sort of thing-- being kept under some condition where i was one of many mistreated, but where i was singled out with some kind of special distinction-- a distinction that was both positive and challenging. anyway, loved it. thank you!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com