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[Trilby]

I don't know what that means- golf clap. Like a really quiet clap? Is this your way of insulting me? If so, it's not really specific, is it? And I didn't post it for YOU anyway. I posted it for me.

i thought it was cute. And fun. I like cute and fun. I also like my reading materials, esp. if they are 'creative' - to be short. you see, jbk, Brevity is the soul of wit.

I never read long poems, even if it's by Tennyson or Byron (hell, I never read Byron at all) or even long poems by people I really love (to read) b/c, frankly, a poem should be a condensed version of some experience or thought or whatever. If you want to write an epic or even a three-pager, unless it's pretty damn thrilling I'm not going to read it. I studied 19th C. British texts (gawd awful!) 19th C. British novels (Jane Austen - I CAN"T STAND HER!; or Dickens; Wilkie Collins was...okay) and 19thC. poetry. Oh, lord. Keats was the only one I could really stand and i think that's coz he died so young he didn't have time to get tedious.

I like Oscar Wilde. I like charming versus tedious. If I have to slog thru a rats nest of esoteric meaning or some complicated manufactured feeling to read a poem I'll just skip it and go to the limerick. Esp. the dirty ones. It must be the Irish tavern wench in me.