User: Bottomfish
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• Subjectivity

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on December 15, 2009     Views: 80 Replies: 1
  Topic: Subjectivity     
  Last response by Bottomfish on December 15, 2009

• She sees a bowl of soup

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on December 15, 2009     Views: 6 Replies: 0
  Topic: Subjectivity     
  Last response by Bottomfish on December 15, 2009

• THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on December 15, 2009     Views: 3 Replies: 1
  Topic: St. Nicholas Day     
  Last response by Joe_JP on December 15, 2009

• "Dead Mother" -- just too ambiguous

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on December 8, 2009     Views: 59 Replies: 0
  Topic: "Dead Mother" -- just too ambiguous     
  Last response by Bottomfish on December 8, 2009

• Not hunger but "food insecurity"

  Posted to My Goodness by Bottomfish on December 6, 2009     Views: 67 Replies: 2
  Topic: Not hunger but "food insecurity"­     
  Last response by kati on December 6, 2009

• OK, I looked again

  Posted to My Goodness by Bottomfish on December 6, 2009     Views: 13 Replies: 1
  Topic: Not hunger but "food insecurity"­     
  Last response by kati on December 6, 2009

• Jonson combines artistic and moral standards

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on December 1, 2009     Views: 386 Replies: 3
  Topic: Jonson combines artistic and moral standards     Rating: +1
  Last response by Robert Pinsky on December 3, 2009

• Jonson vs Herrick

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on December 1, 2009     Views: 19 Replies: 1
  Topic: Jonson combines artistic and moral standards     Rating: +1
  Last response by Robert Pinsky on December 3, 2009

• Translation note on Augustine

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on December 1, 2009     Views: 11 Replies: 0
  Topic: Jonson combines artistic and moral standards     Rating: +1
  Last response by Robert Pinsky on December 3, 2009

• One freight car after another

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on November 24, 2009     Views: 101 Replies: 1
  Topic: One freight car after another     
  Last response by Bottomfish on November 24, 2009

• Re: One freight car after another

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on November 24, 2009     Views: 26 Replies: 0
  Topic: One freight car after another     
  Last response by Bottomfish on November 24, 2009

• Re: Consciousness

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on November 20, 2009     Views: 10 Replies: 1
  Topic: Consciousnes­s     
  Last response by Bottomfish on November 20, 2009

• Re: Consciousness

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on November 20, 2009     Views: 24 Replies: 0
  Topic: Consciousnes­s     
  Last response by Bottomfish on November 20, 2009

• Can the governemnt audit itself?

  Posted to Explainer by Bottomfish on November 19, 2009     Views: 114 Replies: 0
  Topic: Can the governemnt audit itself?     
  Last response by Bottomfish on November 19, 2009

• Consciousness explained

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on November 17, 2009     Views: 154 Replies: 1
  Topic: Consciousnes­s explained     
  Last response by Bottomfish on November 19, 2009

• Saying from Cocteau's Orpheus

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on November 19, 2009     Views: 43 Replies: 0
  Topic: Consciousnes­s explained     
  Last response by Bottomfish on November 19, 2009

• Re: Stop supporting Israel America!

  Posted to Politics by Bottomfish on November 14, 2009     Views: 26 Replies: 1
  Topic: Stop supporting Israel America!     
  Last response by Logic-101 on November 15, 2009

• Re: Hip Hop Alexander Hamilton via Aaron Burr

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on November 10, 2009     Views: 35 Replies: 1
  Topic: Hip Hop Alexander Hamilton via Aaron Burr     
  Last response by Bottomfish on November 14, 2009

• Re: Hip Hop Alexander Hamilton via Aaron Burr

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on November 11, 2009     Views: 64 Replies: 1
  Topic: Hip Hop Alexander Hamilton via Aaron Burr     
  Last response by Bottomfish on November 14, 2009

• Yes, it's an illiterate rant. Here's why.

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on November 14, 2009     Views: 28 Replies: 1
  Topic: Hip Hop Alexander Hamilton via Aaron Burr     
  Last response by Bottomfish on November 14, 2009

• Still an illiterate rant. Here's why.

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on November 14, 2009     Views: 33 Replies: 0
  Topic: Hip Hop Alexander Hamilton via Aaron Burr     
  Last response by Bottomfish on November 14, 2009

• I call this a better example of weaving

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on November 10, 2009     Views: 21 Replies: 1
  Topic: "Daily Threads"­ by Wyn Cooper     
  Last response by Wyn Cooper on November 13, 2009

• Is the function of the poet mere sound?

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on November 10, 2009     Views: 166 Replies: 3
  Topic: Is the function of the poet mere sound?     
  Last response by Bottomfish on November 12, 2009

• Re: Is the function of the poet mere sound?

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on November 10, 2009     Views: 17 Replies: 0
  Topic: Is the function of the poet mere sound?     
  Last response by Bottomfish on November 12, 2009

• Re: Is the function of the poet mere sound?

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on November 11, 2009     Views: 36 Replies: 1
  Topic: Is the function of the poet mere sound?     
  Last response by Bottomfish on November 12, 2009

• Yes, there should be more

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on November 12, 2009     Views: 40 Replies: 0
  Topic: Is the function of the poet mere sound?     
  Last response by Bottomfish on November 12, 2009

• The real issue: efficient land use...

  Posted to The Green Lantern by Bottomfish on November 3, 2009     Views: 29 Replies: 1
  Topic: It all comes back to biofuels.     
  Last response by Tundrayeti on November 11, 2009

• Those huge health insurance profits

  Posted to Politics by Bottomfish on November 10, 2009     Views: 270 Replies: 1
  Topic: Those huge health insurance profits     Rating: +1/-1
  Last response by criticalthinkerr on November 11, 2009

• Re: Those huge health insurance profits

  Posted to Politics by Bottomfish on November 11, 2009     Views: 21 Replies: 1
  Topic: Those huge health insurance profits     Rating: +1/-1
  Last response by criticalthinkerr on November 11, 2009

• Feeble response

  Posted to Politics by Bottomfish on November 11, 2009     Views: 16 Replies: 2
  Topic: Those huge health insurance profits     Rating: +1/-1
  Last response by criticalthinkerr on November 11, 2009

• Re: why I think it works so well

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on November 3, 2009     Views: 37 Replies: 1
  Topic: why I think it works so well     
  Last response by Robert Pinsky on November 9, 2009

• Re: why I think it works so well

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on November 3, 2009     Views: 26 Replies: 2
  Topic: why I think it works so well     
  Last response by Robert Pinsky on November 9, 2009

• Re: why I think it works so well

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on November 3, 2009     Views: 32 Replies: 0
  Topic: why I think it works so well     
  Last response by Robert Pinsky on November 9, 2009

• Re: On the lighter aside

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on November 6, 2009     Views: 43 Replies: 3
  Topic: why I think it works so well     
  Last response by Robert Pinsky on November 9, 2009

• The heavier side of the lighter aside

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on November 7, 2009     Views: 23 Replies: 1
  Topic: why I think it works so well     
  Last response by Robert Pinsky on November 9, 2009

• I say it's Adam's fault

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on November 8, 2009     Views: 27 Replies: 0
  Topic: why I think it works so well     
  Last response by Robert Pinsky on November 9, 2009

• Augustinian viewpoint

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on November 8, 2009     Views: 33 Replies: 1
  Topic: why I think it works so well     
  Last response by Robert Pinsky on November 9, 2009

• Re: Miltonian viewpoint

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on November 8, 2009     Views: 18 Replies: 1
  Topic: why I think it works so well     
  Last response by Robert Pinsky on November 9, 2009

• The mon as a female

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on November 3, 2009     Views: 39 Replies: 0
  Topic: The Labor of Beauty and Our Exile from Love     Rating: +1
  Last response by Bottomfish on November 6, 2009

• Those traditional misogynist texts

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on November 6, 2009     Views: 37 Replies: 1
  Topic: The Labor of Beauty and Our Exile from Love     Rating: +1
  Last response by Bottomfish on November 6, 2009

• I stick to my guns

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on November 6, 2009     Views: 49 Replies: 0
  Topic: The Labor of Beauty and Our Exile from Love     Rating: +1
  Last response by Bottomfish on November 6, 2009

• Counting the women

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on November 3, 2009     Views: 33 Replies: 2
  Topic: "Adam's Curse," Yeats, Poetry and Self Knowledge"­     Rating: +3
  Last response by Robert Pinsky on November 6, 2009

• Re: Counting the women

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on November 3, 2009     Views: 23 Replies: 0
  Topic: "Adam's Curse," Yeats, Poetry and Self Knowledge"­     Rating: +3
  Last response by Robert Pinsky on November 6, 2009

• How do you know they are turned off?

  Posted to Explainer by Bottomfish on November 6, 2009     Views: 35 Replies: 0
  Topic: Vetting process?     
  Last response by Bottomfish on November 6, 2009

• Poetry is overheard

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on November 3, 2009     Views: 151 Replies: 0
  Topic: Poetry is overheard     
  Last response by Bottomfish on November 3, 2009

• Are you sure of what Palestinians will accept?

  Posted to Politics by Bottomfish on October 28, 2009     Views: 57 Replies: 1
  Topic: Is there a comparable Palestinian group?     
  Last response by shep on November 3, 2009

• A Poem For The Knackers

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on October 20, 2009     Views: 78 Replies: 0
  Topic: Richardson's 'The Horses,' DOA..A Poem For The Knackers     
  Last response by Bottomfish on October 20, 2009

• The horses' point of view

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on October 20, 2009     Views: 196 Replies: 0
  Topic: The horses' point of view     
  Last response by Bottomfish on October 20, 2009

• This is too technical for me

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on October 15, 2009     Views: 55 Replies: 1
  Topic: "Goos e'flesh...     
  Last response by MaryAnn on October 15, 2009

• Sexuality and Domination

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on October 13, 2009     Views: 240 Replies: 1
  Topic: Sexuality and Domination     
  Last response by MaryAnn on October 15, 2009

• Giantess

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on October 14, 2009     Views: 54 Replies: 0
  Topic: Sexuality and Domination     
  Last response by MaryAnn on October 15, 2009

• Consider the other side of the question.

  Posted to Explainer by Bottomfish on October 14, 2009     Views: 195 Replies: 1
  Topic: Consider the other side of the question.     Rating: +1
  Last response by Serai on October 14, 2009

• Interesting comment of Cantwell amendment

  Posted to Prescriptions by Bottomfish on October 4, 2009     Views: 232 Replies: 2
  Topic: Interesting comment of Cantwell amendment     
  Last response by DirtyBird on October 14, 2009

• Now what did Heritage say?

  Posted to Prescriptions by Bottomfish on October 4, 2009     Views: 80 Replies: 2
  Topic: Interesting comment of Cantwell amendment     
  Last response by DirtyBird on October 14, 2009

• The right not to have health insurance

  Posted to Prescriptions by Bottomfish on October 7, 2009     Views: 48 Replies: 1
  Topic: Interesting comment of Cantwell amendment     
  Last response by DirtyBird on October 14, 2009

• Yes, a facile analysis

  Posted to Foreigners by Bottomfish on October 9, 2009     Views: 50 Replies: 1
  Topic: Facile analysis     Rating: +2
  Last response by EarlyBird on October 12, 2009

• Why not more accuracy?

  Posted to Foreigners by Bottomfish on October 9, 2009     Views: 53 Replies: 1
  Topic: Why not a Nuclear free Middle East     
  Last response by Doug Graves on October 12, 2009

• Reason: Internationalist Politics and the Middle East

  Posted to Politics by Bottomfish on October 9, 2009     Views: 177 Replies: 0
  Topic: Reason: Internationa­list Politics and the Middle East     
  Last response by Bottomfish on October 9, 2009

• Re: Holy Cat

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on October 8, 2009     Views: 111 Replies: 0
  Topic: Holy Cat     
  Last response by Bottomfish on October 8, 2009

• That polling data on healthcare "reform"

  Posted to Kausfiles by Bottomfish on October 6, 2009     Views: 147 Replies: 0
  Topic: That polling data on healthcare "reform"­     
  Last response by Bottomfish on October 6, 2009

• One damned serious cat

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on October 6, 2009     Views: 248 Replies: 0
  Topic: One damned serious cat     
  Last response by Bottomfish on October 6, 2009

• Baudelaire's "Paranymph", updated

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on September 29, 2009     Views: 299 Replies: 2
  Topic: Baudelaire's "Paranymph",­ updated     
  Last response by MaryAnn on September 29, 2009

• Re: but it's not a poem about a prostitute

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on September 29, 2009     Views: 66 Replies: 1
  Topic: Baudelaire's "Paranymph",­ updated     
  Last response by MaryAnn on September 29, 2009

• Paranymph

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on September 29, 2009     Views: 66 Replies: 0
  Topic: Baudelaire's "Paranymph",­ updated     
  Last response by MaryAnn on September 29, 2009

• Re: Frank Gallimore's relationship to the deaf community

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on September 29, 2009     Views: 65 Replies: 1
  Topic: Frank Gallimore's relationship to the deaf community     
  Last response by MaryAnn on September 29, 2009

• "A chronicle of the creative act"

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on September 22, 2009     Views: 509 Replies: 2
  Topic: "A chronicle of the creative act"     
  Last response by falcon on September 28, 2009

• Re: "A chronicle of the creative act"

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on September 22, 2009     Views: 82 Replies: 1
  Topic: "A chronicle of the creative act"     
  Last response by falcon on September 28, 2009

• Giant Squid in literature

  Posted to Recycled by Bottomfish on September 27, 2009     Views: 230 Replies: 0
  Topic: Giant Squid in literature     
  Last response by Bottomfish on September 27, 2009

• Why not invite Glenn Beck?

  Posted to Press Box by Bottomfish on September 25, 2009     Views: 205 Replies: 1
  Topic: Why not invite Glenn Beck?     
  Last response by geori on September 25, 2009

• Help for Greenberg re Obama and Hofstadter

  Posted to History Lesson by Bottomfish on September 23, 2009     Views: 231 Replies: 1
  Topic: Help for Greenberg re Obama and Hofstadter     
  Last response by Bottomfish on September 23, 2009

• The problem with Hofstadter

  Posted to History Lesson by Bottomfish on September 23, 2009     Views: 83 Replies: 0
  Topic: Help for Greenberg re Obama and Hofstadter     
  Last response by Bottomfish on September 23, 2009

• Re: Let's look at the brutal facts

  Posted to Foreigners by Bottomfish on September 17, 2009     Views: 52 Replies: 0
  Topic: Let's look at the brutal facts     
  Last response by Leo Harold on September 18, 2009

• Your ignorance!

  Posted to Foreigners by Bottomfish on September 17, 2009     Views: 51 Replies: 0
  Topic: Let's look at the brutal facts     
  Last response by Leo Harold on September 18, 2009

• Make obligations reciprocal, not one-sided

  Posted to Foreigners by Bottomfish on September 17, 2009     Views: 208 Replies: 1
  Topic: Make obligations reciprocal, not one-sided     
  Last response by PhilistineTheArtLover on September 17, 2009

• Re: Make obligations reciprocal, not one-sided

  Posted to Foreigners by Bottomfish on September 17, 2009     Views: 66 Replies: 1
  Topic: Make obligations reciprocal, not one-sided     
  Last response by PhilistineTheArtLover on September 17, 2009

• Parsing "Their Old Knives"

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on September 15, 2009     Views: 223 Replies: 3
  Topic: Parsing "Their Old Knives"     
  Last response by zinya on September 15, 2009

• Re: Parsing "Their Old Knives"

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on September 15, 2009     Views: 76 Replies: 0
  Topic: Parsing "Their Old Knives"     
  Last response by zinya on September 15, 2009

• Homely but less expensive way to compact

  Posted to Moneybox by Bottomfish on September 10, 2009     Views: 201 Replies: 0
  Topic: Homely but less expensive way to compact     
  Last response by Bottomfish on September 10, 2009

• Betraying all the comforts of home

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on September 8, 2009     Views: 407 Replies: 4
  Topic: Betraying all the comforts of home     
  Last response by HAP on September 9, 2009

• Re: Betraying all the comforts of home

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on September 8, 2009     Views: 73 Replies: 0
  Topic: Betraying all the comforts of home     
  Last response by HAP on September 9, 2009

• Re: Betraying all the comforts of home

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on September 8, 2009     Views: 89 Replies: 1
  Topic: Betraying all the comforts of home     
  Last response by HAP on September 9, 2009

• Re: Betraying all the comforts of home

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on September 9, 2009     Views: 71 Replies: 2
  Topic: Betraying all the comforts of home     
  Last response by HAP on September 9, 2009

• What's it like to run the Poems Fray?

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on August 25, 2009     Views: 302 Replies: 1
  Topic: What's it like to run the Poems Fray?     Rating: +1
  Last response by Ted Burke on September 7, 2009

• Re: What's it like to run the Poems Fray?

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on September 2, 2009     Views: 88 Replies: 1
  Topic: What's it like to run the Poems Fray?     Rating: +1
  Last response by Ted Burke on September 7, 2009

• "Doctor Joe" the Fall Guy

  Posted to Politics by Bottomfish on September 4, 2009     Views: 172 Replies: 1
  Topic: "Doctor Joe" the Fall Guy     
  Last response by koenraad64 on September 4, 2009

• Why such a large error this month?

  Posted to Explainer by Bottomfish on September 4, 2009     Views: 203 Replies: 0
  Topic: Why such a large error this month?     
  Last response by Bottomfish on September 4, 2009

• Ideas in poetry: then and now

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on September 1, 2009     Views: 238 Replies: 1
  Topic: Ideas in poetry: then and now     
  Last response by Robert Pinsky on September 1, 2009

• Typing torment

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on August 27, 2009     Views: 116 Replies: 0
  Topic: Thursday OPP -- please comment     
  Last response by NuPlanetOne on August 28, 2009

• Trauma

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on August 25, 2009     Views: 276 Replies: 1
  Topic: Trauma     Rating: +1
  Last response by HAP on August 26, 2009

• Identity of "dour liberator"

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on August 25, 2009     Views: 76 Replies: 1
  Topic: Trauma     Rating: +1
  Last response by HAP on August 26, 2009

• Re: faces on various denominations of pesos

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on August 25, 2009     Views: 78 Replies: 2
  Topic: Trauma     Rating: +1
  Last response by HAP on August 26, 2009

• Remember your tradition

  Posted to Explainer by Bottomfish on August 20, 2009     Views: 119 Replies: 0
  Topic: We don't go around saying "Mr. Aristotle...­"     Rating: -1
  Last response by tracker on August 20, 2009

• Summmertiiime and the reading is eaaaaasy

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on August 18, 2009     Views: 221 Replies: 1
  Topic: Summmertiiim­e and the reading is eaaaaasy     
  Last response by blahblahblahs on August 18, 2009

• Human life over the last 10,000 years

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on August 11, 2009     Views: 268 Replies: 1
  Topic: Human life over the last 10,000 years     
  Last response by MaryAnn on August 11, 2009

• Re: Human life over the last 10,000 years

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on August 11, 2009     Views: 112 Replies: 1
  Topic: Human life over the last 10,000 years     
  Last response by MaryAnn on August 11, 2009

• Providing low-priced food for the world

  Posted to Green Room by Bottomfish on August 5, 2009     Views: 273 Replies: 2
  Topic: Providing low-priced food for the world     
  Last response by Nasochkas on August 6, 2009

• Does your stool stand?

  Posted to Green Room by Bottomfish on August 6, 2009     Views: 165 Replies: 0
  Topic: The stool won't stand     
  Last response by Bottomfish on August 6, 2009

• Everything balances (almost)

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on August 4, 2009     Views: 238 Replies: 1
  Topic: Everything balances (almost)     
  Last response by MaryAnn on August 5, 2009

• The sexuality of Henry James

  Posted to Poems by Bottomfish on August 4, 2009     Views: 124 Replies: 0
  Topic: Is it merely an epistle?     Rating: +1
  Last response by Robert Pinsky on August 4, 2009

• Problem: failure of the stimulus

  Posted to Politics by Bottomfish on July 31, 2009     Views: 311 Replies: 3
  Topic: Problem: failure of the stimulus     Rating: -2
  Last response by foobar on July 31, 2009