A nine minute beat poem, eh?
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Ahh but don't you see? Even in the poem you quoted, what's more likely the meaning of that line?

"The weather-stains for the dribble"

Is it
"The weather-stains for the saliva"

Or?
"The weather-stains for the slow trickle"

Does the author intend to mean the weather that day is made of saliva or simply water?

I understand the difference is subtle, but that's the reason for a DIFFERENT word.

Keep in mind that Jinx described his own meaning as human saliva.

I would really love you to have persuaded me that I was wrong, but I really think the two words are just too closely related.

I did come across the wonderful descriptive phrase "brain-dribble" from Henry Duff Traill, but not in a sense that helps either of us.

I also came across a Henry Lawson poem, One Hundred and Three, from 1908, which includes this passage:

They double-lock at four o'clock and the warders leave their keys,
And the Governor strolls with a friend at eve through his stone conservatories;
Their window slits are like idiot mouths with square stone chins adrop,
And the weather-stains for the dribble, and the dead flat foreheads atop.

not sure how I feel about the crowd noise. All the moaning, groaning, yelping, and snaps, seems a bit too much like self-parody to take seriously...

poem was good, tho.

did more research, this guy doesn't have OCD, he's just a slam poetry performer and actor. Watched several of his other poems and he uses a different persona for each poem's theme. From sitting smoking a pipe to dressing in drag for a comedy one, to stuttering performing a King "speech" poem to this OCD act he put on.

decent actor I guess. But after seeing his website and learning he didn't have ocd, it sorta changes it.

Aunt Annie's poem is along the lines of:

I were sitting on me arse last evening,

Me Mother and Father were off,

Cuz they'd heard, me old Nan Susanna were laid up in bed with a cough

She has some brasses me old Nan Susannah;

That's reason she's looked after so

If they've nought, well they're nought but a bother.

Here's an example - me old Uncle John.

@alien_concept

Thanks! I was struggling to come up with a username, and then I just decided to accept my true nature.

And this is a timeless issue that I think we've all run into at times. A woman comes to a man to talk about her emotions. The man sees that she has a problem, and tries to help her solve it. This frustrates the woman - she only wanted to share her troubles with him, and she feels insulted that he would assume she is incapable of solving her own problems. This, in turn, frustrates the man; after all, why would she come to him if she won't accept his help? He's sincerely doing his best, and he feels that she is being unfair and overly emotional.

A fight ensues, and neither party understands how it even happened, or how to find a way out of it.

And as I have a VERY emotional mother and VERY rational father, I've been on both sides, as well as in the middle, of this conflict many times.

As for Assange, he once said that Sweden is the "Saudi Arabia of feminism," and having grown up here, I can vouch for the veracity of that statement.

It has gotten to the point here that most guys are just too afraid to stand up to even the most obvious acts of bigotry because the one-way sexism has become so widely accepted. We're only left with three choices; we either accept the abuse and join in it ourselves, or we simply give up and take it with a sort of hopeless resignation.

Since I can't stand to be victimized, I favour the third option; pointing out the bullshit and then riposting with facts, logic and righteous anger.

But I've had some utterly INSANE examples of sexism happen in the classroom, including a teacher derailing a lecture right at the beginning of it and instead spending her entire hour to essentially claim that all men are either rapists or potential rapists, and as a guy, it's just difficult to know what to do in that situation.

It's also very hurtful, as I find rape to be one of the most despicable acts imaginable.

And... that's why my reaction to this guy's poem was so strong. It's like he's been abused for so long that he's begun to think that it's actually true.

You gave your son a very good answer! Men and women are different from one another (though this isn't entirely set in stone), and I think that anybody who claims otherwise simply prefers ideology or fantasy (same thing, really) over reality.

And for what it's worth, I think those differences are pretty freaking valuable. I love women, and part of the reason for that is the fact that they aren't men.

@Procrastinatron

You make your point beautifully

I didn't take his poem as being literal. I didn't assume he was actually talking about himself but making a point that you should treat every woman (person) with the respect they deserve and never assume in the first place that that gives you any hold over them. But it's perfectly possible I'm just being naive.

He should just resort to being ten again and go back to the playground tactic of pushing girls he likes over and calling them a poohead, just to be on the safe side

It's interesting watching this immediately after the poem from the OCD guy Not that I think he has OCD, but it (tracking sneezes etc.) certainly seems to have been an obsession.

I think that I shall never see

a poem as lovely as a freshly paved road.

I'm torn by this. It's a fantastic poem and an obviously heartfelt performance, but in many ways I think the girl was right when she said she shouldn't have let him get so attached to her.

Yeah, it's sad and he clearly loves her, but it's not fair on her either. He has loaded all these expectations about his life that only she can solve, and it's way too much pressure to put on someone. It's the very definition of an unhealthy relationship.

Awesome poem, my man.

Keep up the good fight!

QM

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Beautifully described what else one could expect more than a beach house like you have said in your poem. custom rugs

Ehh.. the point is there, but I actually quite hate the fact that all "straight people" are lumped into the same idiotic pile.. It's the same as saying:

"Dear (Black / White) people.."

Am i going to lump an entire race into one long speech / poem about some stupid shit that some (x) people do? Nope. Why? Because after listening to this poem, my feelings about gay people / marriage haven't changed, still all for it. But I do dislike you.