You people have NO idea with whom you are fucking.

[riff]

THE MAILMAN

It is midnight.
He comes up the walk
and knocks at the door.
I rush to greet him.
He stands there weeping,
shaking a letter at me.
He tells me it contains
terrible personal news.
He falls to his knees.
"Forgive me! Forgive me!" he pleads.

I ask him inside.
He wipes his eyes.
His dark blue suit
is like an inkstain
on my crimson couch.
Helpless, nervous, small,
he curls up like a ball
and sleeps while I compose
more letters to myself
in the same vein:

"You shall live
by inflicting pain.
You shall forgive."

-Mark Strand

 

[AusTess]

I shoulda stayed in bed i think.

 

[riff]

The only people that have ever really commented on a poem I have posted on this bored have been Wiggles and Tim1.

Long life to the two of you. Cheers!

The rest of you can fuck off for all I care. You are uncivilized heathen bags of shit.

riff

 

[Dillinger]

Actually I have a very good idea whom I'm fucking. I like to keep the lights on.

 

[AusTess]

And i shoulda just shut the fuck up,huh?

Sorry.*l*

 

[riff]

And i shoulda just shut the fuck up,huh?

Sorry.*l*

that's all up to you.

do people in autralia eat greens? turnip greens? collards? mustards?

where would i find such things in Torquay?

 

[mig]

No idea and couldn't give a shit anyway.

 

[Guest]

Once was a dude named riff
his love of porn was second to none
one night he smoked a spliff
and proceeded to have some fun

Numbskulls got pissed
Cuz he didnt play nice and cute
They never knew what they missed
riff taking it up the poop-shoot

The fat chick thread went off track
riff was frustrated
Put down Pot for some crack
and masturbated

 

[riff]

Once was a dude named riff
his love of porn was second to none
one night he smoked a spliff
and proceeded to have some fun

Numbskulls got pissed
Cuz he didnt play nice and cute
They never knew what they missed
riff taking it up the poop-shoot

The fat chick thread went off track
riff was frustrated
Put down Pot for some crack
and masturbated

like i said, failures of socialization, republicans, and dog farts.

 

[Guest]

riff,

Now you are simply being bitter. You had a chance to laugh along with me but you chose to be a grumpy old man. Stop bitching, you just acted like the dipshits on the board. Lighten up for fuck's sake.

Bohemian

 

[riff]

did not.

~lights up a bonghit~

get your own pot.

 

[sch00lteacher]

THE MAILMAN

It is midnight.
He comes up the walk
and knocks at the door.
I rush to greet him.
He stands there weeping,
shaking a letter at me.
He tells me it contains
terrible personal news.
He falls to his knees.
"Forgive me! Forgive me!" he pleads.

I ask him inside.
He wipes his eyes.
His dark blue suit
is like an inkstain
on my crimson couch.
Helpless, nervous, small,
he curls up like a ball
and sleeps while I compose
more letters to myself
in the same vein:

"You shall live
by inflicting pain.
You shall forgive."

-Mark Strand

Oh! It was a poem! Shit I thought you were talking about what happened at your house last night. Duh.

Sorry about that riff. I'll pay better attention.

 

[SweetBrat73]

Re: Re: You people have NO idea with whom you are fucking.

Oh! It was a poem! Shit I thought you were talking about what happened at your house last night. Duh.

Sorry about that riff. I'll pay better attention.

LoL You have such a way about you teach

So that poem is by you riff??? How come it's got somebody else's name at the end then???


Brat

 

[Stiphy]

Gambatte.....

Hey man,

I appreciated the way you put the words together. Poetry is something that I haven't tackled in a long while. Im not sure if I got the message of your poem, but thanks for shareing all the same.

Remember pot will kill ya man. You could be all stoned and stuff and forget to unplug the iron and *poof* your the new menu item at KFC, "Fried Riff Sticks".

Just because I care.....

 

[freescorfr]

Riff, I've a real problem. First of all I find most of your posts funny.
Secondly I have real trouble feeling nasty about anyone on this board. Maybe, even, about anyone.

So it's maybe no praise at all to say I like the poem: it's poingant, desperate, comic. Yes I like it.

One suggestion maybe - play aroung with the length of the lines, e.g.

THE MAILMAN

It is midnight.
He comes up the walk and knocks at the door.
I rush to greet him.
He stands there weeping, shaking a letter at me.
He tells me it contains terrible personal news.
He falls to his knees.
"Forgive me! Forgive me!" he pleads.

I ask him inside.
He wipes his eyes.
His dark blue suit is like an inkstain on my crimson couch.
Helpless, nervous, small,
he curls up like a ball
and sleeps while I compose more letters to myself
in the same vein:

"You shall live
by inflicting pain.
You shall forgive."

-Mark Strand


Just to see if you like it. For me it's a more natural rythym to play around, some strokes long, some short, some round and round.......

 

[riff]

I didn't write the poem. Mark Strand did. I like his lineation better than your verison and think he would punch you in the face for what you have done to it. heh.

 

[Wiggles]

I didn't write the poem. Mark Strand did. I like his lineation better than your verison and think he would punch you in the face for what you have done to it. heh.

Ouch.

 

[riff]

Ouch.

So glad you finally saw this thread. You really were the only person with Tim1 that responded to a poem when the thread began with "Poem, anyone?"

Put a cold sirloin on that black eye. It helps. At least in cartoons it seems to help.

 

[freescorfr]

I'd obviously no idea with whom I was fucking. Orgies in the dark!

 

[Wiggles]

I saw this thread awhile ago, put it kind of but me off posting to it.

I think alot of people see a poem and just say, ok there's a poem. They probably don't have anything to add, or they don't understand it.

So, post your poetry if you want to, but people aren't uncivilized heathen bags of shit because they don't respond. In my opinion at least.

Everybody has different tastes, don't feel bad if no one posts to your thread. I see many good threads go down the poop hole, because they're not phrased for easy conversation.

Like on this one, maybe you could have just said, Thoughts? That at least would have given people a jumping board to base their thoughts/opinions upon.

And if I did have a black eye, you sir would have some squishied nuts.

*Edited for my one spelling error.

 

[riff]

So, post your poetry if you want to, but people aren't uncivilized heathen bags of shit because they don't respond. In my opinion at least.

Who cares about uncivilized heathen bags of shit? You responded. heh. So don't worry about it. You are a real person... like me!

Now SLAP me!!!!!! LOL hehehe

 

[riff]

I'd obviously no idea with whom I was fucking. Orgies in the dark!

At this precise moment, I'm with you. I am still trying to figure it out and it is driving me insane.

It's like Focaults Pendulum! I'm paranoid.