Take care of yourself

Post #20,174 by mhuber 12/4/01 1:29:59 AM Reply	Take care of yourself When it is really, really dark, your eyes are probably closed. It hasn't been a good year for me, this thread is about Ben, not me, so I won't go into that. Suffice it to say that I can only handle news that feels like a kick in the chest a certain number of times, and this year it happened N+1 times. I got help, some of it in chemical form, and now I'm in decent shape to get out there and take care of what I need to take care of. I've moved from being utterly overwhelmed to enjoying facing my challenges. ---- "You don't have to be right - just use bolded upper case" - annon.
Post #20,280 by orion 12/4/01 10:51:02 PM Reply	Not a good year for me either I got into a big depression, and now lost my job. But remember that 2002 is about ready to happen in less than a month. It is always darkest before the dawn. Time is but a window, and the moon and sun move outside that window and shine in the light to us. Sometimes there are clouds that block our view, but the sun and moon are always there to greet us eventually. *I am free now, to choose my own destiny.*
Post #20,283 by Steve Lowe 12/5/01 1:11:07 AM Reply	I like your new sig :-) ----- Steve
Post #20,294 by static 12/5/01 4:31:18 AM Reply	Well spotted. Yes, Norm the new sig is good. Wade. "All around me are nothing but fakes Come with me on the biggest fake of all!"
Post #20,315 by orion 12/5/01 10:41:01 AM Reply	Almost like a poem about ten years ago I used to write poems to help keep myself sane. If you people like, I can post a few of them? *I am free now, to choose my own destiny.*
Post #20,347 by inthane-chan 12/5/01 1:29:47 PM Reply	Do that. I don't know if I helped trigger the .sig change, but it is Good. And put those poems up - misery prefers lonliness. Share, and you'll feel better. What are friends for, but to prop you up when you're not at your best? "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche
Post #20,362 by orion 12/5/01 3:49:56 PM Reply	Where to post them? Maybe a Poems forum? Or should I just post them on the Open Forum? Or Entertainment? Ah, fugeabout it, I'll just post them and let the Admins move them. Hopefully they won't go to the "Flame-On" forums> ;) *I am free now, to choose my own destiny.*
Post #20,401 by mhuber 12/5/01 7:47:55 PM Reply	Just not in the Prose forum. It's off-topic there. Oh, wait, we don't have one. So I guess wherever the prose version would be appropriate a poem would be OK. ---- "You don't have to be right - just use bolded upper case" - annon.
Post #20,413 by Ashton 12/5/01 8:29:09 PM Reply	Prose police report. Admin. If it rhymes and it talks about slime but in time it pokes fun at D. Kime [reach] If it ain't got no couth and extols about youth (But leaves out the truth) If the ox that is Gored The Box has explored (Without saying Lord..) Well, there ain't no right place To eat North Sea Plaice 'Cept to make sure It Gets in Your Face.. Admin: Poet's Quadrangle please. (Since one Corner just won't be enough) :-\ufffd
Post #20,435 by admin 12/5/01 11:23:42 PM Reply	Re: Prose police report. Admin. Alas, that I might join in with this fight. But to say "yes I'll bite"; it just would not be right. For we joust, mon ami, most dangerously. And I won't pay the fee that this requires of me. I hope to restrain this horrid refrain, to my ear it's a bane and they'll all soon complain. I won't shift the blame; I picked up the game. But for ears we did maim, foul Ashton's the name! Rearguards, -scott anderson
Post #20,446 by Ashton 12/6/01 2:30:11 AM Reply	\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd It all seems obtuse (no real excuse) In fact kinda loose um, just like a goose? Not much of a flame (maim's hardly urbane) While it does beat profane You just got no shame Best skip lugubrious (it's not so salubrious) I'll not be felonious Remember Thelonious Monk-fish is spicy (it's now getting dicey) Your fee's a bit pricey And more might seem icy Au Reservoir, Ashton I'd never steal LRPD's other car! (Besides, it wouldn't start.. Har!)
Post #20,462 by admin 12/6/01 9:09:42 AM Reply	LRPD: Danger, Will Robinson! Danger! Tsk tsk... watch your syllable count, Ashton... I very carefully laid out the 4-line beat metric pattern... Maybe more this weekend when I'm not at work... ;-) Regards, -scott anderson
Post #20,463 by admin 12/6/01 9:14:16 AM Reply	In the meantime, you might enjoy: [link\|http://www.dunx.org/cgi-bin/forum?forum=game00078&tail=40&displayStyle=default\|The Orange Mornington Crescent Difficult Poetry Hour] Only a single entry by yours truly, but the game seems to have petered out... Regards, -scott anderson
Post #20,522 by Ashton 12/6/01 5:09:18 PM Reply	What Ho! malraux, in furbelow Onomatopoetic dactylitis indeed. Besides, My meter was sweeter And not so jejeune Thou sayest no neater Sans even a spoon [link\|http://www.dunx.org/mc/pilgrims/16/image_00497.html\|Cackle.. Cackle..] Bad bad malraux.. a Distraction hast thou wrought. Such a compact Isle.. All those delicious Places and, they can hop on a clean, fast train to get from John O'Groats to Lands End.. in a trice. :( {sob} And attend such peripatetic floating operas as [link\|http://www.pigsear.org.uk/festival.html\|The Pigs Ear Beer Festival!] Going on Right Now! Oh! the inhumanity (and vanity) ..and all we get is this Crummy Tea-Skirt. OK, guess I have to adsorb some more of this Mornington \ufffd Madness anon - thought it was about topology played with Underground stations n'stuff, but I see these are deeply aberrant weirdos.. why, some might be Kinfolk! Ashtoniensis
Post #20,489 by drewk 12/6/01 1:09:34 PM Reply	Reach yourself, bub While sitting here reading Few words am I heeding 'Til rebuttals start seeding From an insult misleading A pun war just might be fun But time says I must flee pun So my last line's a rerun So my last line's a rerun We have to fight the terrorists as if there were no rules and preserve our open society as if there were no terrorists. -- [link\|http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/05/opinion/BIO-FRIEDMAN.html\|Thomas Friedman]
Post #20,715 by static 12/7/01 7:27:10 PM Reply	ROFL!!! "All around me are nothing but fakes Come with me on the biggest fake of all!"
Post #20,733 by Ashton 12/7/01 9:06:35 PM Reply	LRPD: IWETHEY's Terrible Horde of Epicyclic Yammerers.
Post #20,448 by static 12/6/01 5:19:49 AM Reply	I'd suggest either here or Open. I'm tempted to fence in rhythm and rhyme, With Ashton and others who dare. But I'm only doing it to pass along time; Posted, amusing fare. Your poetry, Norm, is definitely welcome And please be encouraged to post. Remember, too, it's friends you're among, Your loss is too high a cost. Wade. "All around me are nothing but fakes Come with me on the biggest fake of all!"

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