Heaven help us.

It isn't a quest Lizzytysh. You've been had.

There's a reason you can't google it. Jog your memory?

No lie. Not on my part. I remember now where I saw it.

Oh Paula, you are so naive.

I hope you have not misunderstood me. I've no doubt you wrote it. I'm not suggesting you plagerized. I mean, it's not exactly the kind of poem a person would steal is it. Not so very bad but not so very good either. As for googling, no thank you. I'm sure you've covered your tracks.

I am being very truthful, dear Critic2. I know that I have seen that poem somewhere before. It must not have been very successful the first time around.

Somehow, Leonard just never came to mind when I read it ~ "Pooh what a whiff" ~ now, Leonard definitely has a nature that's genteel, but aligning that line with him was just a conceptual leap I wasn't prepared to make, with the label "Leonardesque" Let me disabuse you of that no...

No, Critic2, but it should have been.

Perhaps you can rework it for the next contest.

Careful Critic2. Or you'll start to bore us.

I'm not coming along after the fact. I'm coming in just when I should.

Have you figured out who Raskolnikov is yet?

It's recycled. So a 72-hour contest has no meaning. Just use one of your old poems and adapt it. How bogus is that.

Now that I've reread VivaVinyl I could swear I have seen this poem before in another slightly altered version. I remember the part about the tips. The author ought to fess up.

What kind of poetry contest has 2 Grand Prize Winners , Three First Place Winners, Three Second Place Winners and 12 Honorable Mentions? Out of 23 entrants? Could it be a contest where the Judge is clueless about who Raskolnikov is? Raskolnikov, only one of the most recognizable and infamous charact...

I told you he would be back. (Not that he ever went away)