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you`re welcome: you`re welcome

Sorry I was a little stoned: What a poor impression I'm putting on myself.

I think your comment was a compliment.: Thank you.

It Can Never Be True: Let it be noted I am having a great revelation. You directed me by means of your advertising-comment, and reading the clarity conveyed is cool and all but wtf.

Thank you, sir, for your: Thank you, sir, for your perspective, which I always appreciate.

Since you have commented on: Since you have commented on my poem, I shall feel more free to respond than if I was visiting one of your poems.  And what I say is directed only toward your comment, and toward other items you have posted,  I know nothing of you beyond what is on this site.  In my opinion (and all of what I am about to write is strictly and entirely my own opinion), you seem to think that no poet can criticize the behavior of some other poet, while still being humble:  I suggest this shows a woeful disdain for or disregard of the Western canon, and of poets like Callimachus, Dante, Milton, Eliot, Pound Stevens; and, most especially, the great J. V. Cunningham---all of whom were humble men; but they were also, like you and me, fallible human beings.  This is a very solipsitic position to maintain.  I have also read poems of yours that criticize others' behavior that you dislike or with which you disagree (I would cite your poem "Judgment" among others as an example).  That poems of yours that I have cited does the very same thing that you criticize in others.  To critizie the behavior of others for critizing the behavior of others---is this not like the opitical illusion of mirrors reflecting mirrors, creating what seems an infinite number of reflections that just continue to some far away vanishing point?  (Are you familiar with Ashberry's "Self Portrait In A Convexy Mirror"?   Cunningham was a very humble man, they tell me (I did not ever have the opportunity to meet him, or to hear him lecture on poetry), but when he saw an abuse of poetry, he spoke up---and, I suggest, he thought pride was an abuse of poetry.  What about John Milton's verse play, Samson Agonistes, in which the character Harapha is Milton's very subtle attack upon the overweening pride of the scholar Claudius Salmasius?  And what of Milton's portrait of Satan in Paradise Lost?---is that a failure of Milton's Christian humbleness because he used that character as a parody of certain public and poetic behaviors that he found discourteous and uncouth?    However, I am grateful that you visited the poem and commented.  I have been candid because you came to my comment area; like I said, if I visit yours, I try to be more circumspect.  But here, I will respond as appears, to me, to be a fit and fair reply.  (By the way, you ought to check out David Lean's film, Doctor Zhivago, specifically the character Strelnikov's comments about Zhivago's poetry.  When I saw the film, this past Saturday, I thought of you when I heard Strelnikov make those remarks.  I did not imagine, then, that you would favor me with a comment, as you have done today.)  Thanks again for that, Uncle.  Feel free to visit any poem, at any time.  [*/+/^]