Thank you all, very much! I didn't expect this. I expected maybe a comment or two about Frost's poem. Honestly, it was not my intention to inflict on you "la petite obligation malheureuse de consoler"! Which is the Babel Fish translation of "the little unhappy obligation to console.&q...

It will be sung at my father's memorial service, hosted by the Unitarian Society of New Haven, in a couple of weeks. I don't know who selected it. And before I read it carefully several times I had no hope at all that it could possibly be at all appropriate. The title is not promising. And I know th...

Mat, You told me on the Butcher thread - you sent up the Batman signal to me - that Cate was acting up over here and I needed to get my ass right over and straighten her out about a few things and put her in her place. Cate suggests (on the BOM thread above quoted) that the "you" could be ...

For the purposes of this dissertation (or "post") I will use the term "supersuperego". I know the word's grotesque. But at least its meaning, after a few comments, should be self-evident. So I'll use it for now. "supersuperego" gets about 300 hits on Google. Most of the...

to welcome the drones
Geoffrey opens his raincoat.
but the children laugh.

Chelsea/~greg, I noticed that the butcher ("butchery") enters Leonard's work once more in Book of Mercy # 41 “...Bind me, ease of my heart, bind me to your love. Gentle things you return to me, and duties that are sweet. And you say, I am in this heart, I and my name are here. Everywhere ...

I'm not an artist
I'm an arsonist of love
A flaming heart throb

manna wrote:mildy edited:

In other words, you were caught. just in time, that time.

Let us know when it's consummated.

I tried to log on the other night and was not allowed to because someone had tried to log on to my account too many times with the wrong passwords. I was made to pass a "captcha" test to get on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha Captcha tests are supposed to stop bots, but they are often...

makes lovely red wine
from Geoffrey's balls in a vise?
I wouldn't drink it.

2009
2099
the tempus fugit

I apologize if I misunderstood and thought that Jack's 'cleaner bed' vs 'clean her bed' was humour. No. no. It really was funny. :) And the joke really is on me! And I really do have to apologize to Jack for so quickly assuming he was being sarcastic. I didn't realize this until just now - but yes:...

Jack I am sorry about the loss of your friend. There are some things that I am thinking about saying to her and am a little unsure of some things. I have spent a lot of time considering what might be of some use to her and Greg's poem caused me to reflect on how little we are able to determine those...

under bluest skies...
destination of heroes
in the sky is land

... the usual Greg thing of showing how sick and twisted everyone else is. I think you're twisted, Jack. I think someone should copyright the poem title "Destination of hero's in the sky" because it is a piece of poetry. It is interesting, the way you have nothing to say about the poem it...