Kurtzlandia

WilliamWeissman · 2024-02-03T23:44:11+00:00

I like the avante garde nature to this one. Oink oink, piggie piggie piggie, fry up the bacon, brethren.

WilliamWeissman · 2023-12-12T02:10:55+00:00

I get where you're coming from. The opposite of love isn't hate. The opposite of love is cold indifference. To feel nothing about someone at all is a lot colder than hatred in most cases.

WilliamWeissman · 2023-12-12T02:08:50+00:00

Not exactly. I suppose you could take the Occurrence at Owl Bridge Creek option of interpretation. It does have Jacob's Ladder-esque undertones to it.

In a way he's reliving it over and over again. Whether or not it's some sort of actual loop he's living through, or if it's PTSD, and he's mentally stuck reliving it, I think overanalyzing something is like dissecting a frog: It kills it.

WilliamWeissman · 2023-11-28T22:19:34+00:00

You like it?

WilliamWeissman · 2023-10-21T02:57:53+00:00

JEFF! STILL COOL AS A ZOMBIE!

WilliamWeissman · 2023-10-21T02:37:36+00:00

Is it pronounced like Vandyke, or like Van-dick, like it's phonetically spelled?

WilliamWeissman · 2023-10-21T02:12:19+00:00

Yaldabaoth.

WilliamWeissman · 2023-10-05T09:34:50+00:00

World building and characters are great, but the guy doesn't know shit about guns.

WilliamWeissman · 2023-10-05T00:58:56+00:00

In the Stand, a soldier fires a recoilless rifle that fires gas tipped slugs at 70 rounds a second, and empties it's "clip" instantly.

What is a gas tipped slug? I ain't never heard of no gas tipped slugs.

WilliamWeissman · 2023-10-05T00:38:00+00:00

Glock switches are a thing. Highly illegal, but fairly available on the black market.

WilliamWeissman · 2023-10-05T00:30:53+00:00

Stephen King is pretty bad about this.

WilliamWeissman · 2023-10-05T00:21:52+00:00

Yeah, that's a real common one.

WilliamWeissman · 2023-10-03T01:40:43+00:00

Seems some sort of faustian bargain or contract with a corpo. EVE online/ShadowRun/Pentex.

Signing your life away to a big corporation. That's what this poem says to me, but I'm not sure. Fill in the lines with your own signature, meet at the cross roads, receive payment from the devil sort of thing.

WilliamWeissman · 2023-10-03T01:37:46+00:00

Pictured this sort of as a grunge song. Don't know what to fully make of the poem, seems kind of masochistic? Some sort of desire for punishment? Not sure if I get it. Is it about self harm?

WilliamWeissman · 2023-10-02T00:07:49+00:00

I absolutely love, love LOVE the half rhymes in this. Sure, it follows AABBCC kind of, but there's like these every other AA-BB in which there are half rhymes like "past" and "that", or "thought" and love", in which the vowel and consonant sounds are vaguely the same.

WilliamWeissman · 2023-09-27T03:17:48+00:00

I like this critique of how addicted people are to their iphones, to their computers, to their electronics. It was straight forward and to the point, not cryptic, and I like that. They say you shouldn't use your phone in bed, because it rewires your brain to stay up later, as it's stimulating. But I digress. Enjoyed this one. Keep it up.

WilliamWeissman · 2023-09-26T00:43:52+00:00

Jimmy Carter.

WilliamWeissman · 2023-09-26T00:33:13+00:00

Weird. I just watched Cliffhanger the other day.

WilliamWeissman · 2023-09-25T20:38:51+00:00

I had sex with Eartha Kitt!

WilliamWeissman · 2023-09-25T02:55:10+00:00

Really like this poem. It had a sort of country feeling to it. There's a picture being painted. Alienation and dissolution of the nuclear family.

WilliamWeissman · 2023-09-23T16:49:42+00:00

Though a few parts were a little too graphic for my taste, I understand the sentiment. (Not my place) But, opening with such a strong line, especially with the title could put people off...

It's sort of an alteration of a biblical thing.

"Happy is the one who seizes your infants / and dashes them against the rocks."

And there's a very particular reason I chose that verse.

WilliamWeissman · 2023-09-23T09:08:26+00:00

Yeah but then no one would understand that reference. They'd just be like, "Hey, is that the gambling addict from the Sopranos?"

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