No one came at all

Cause they were too busy watchin'

You mean Wayne's poem?

Actually I used to (sometimes) get very good marks for close analysis of poems when I was at Uni - I went there as an adult student. (More general essays were more difficult)

BUT poetry and art etc are very subjective. One can analyze them if you know the overall purpose or theme (or if it is say a "postmodern" poem-art object or whatever you have to apply different criteria).

I have to concede that I found - still find very many poems simply too obscure. Obscurity isn't always bad but I find many to be rather difficult.

I know you speak ironically but I was in fact not a brilliant scholar - I did quite well at school but it was by dint of "swotting" and doing a lot of home work. I also loved reading...but I had no illusions I was smarter than anyone else.

Chess was the same - my brother was natural (or more of one) - but I had to study books for hours and then I never mastered it (whoever does?), I still struggle with chess...

Just lately I have been getting wiped out by everyone on FICS... and at tourneys I'm only doing averagely (I seem to do bit better at Club Chess)

But I've been crook lately...sinusitis....

But I take your point, we can analyze things out of existence... it's good to see anyone have a go at a poem.

I had a 'Think Thin' energy bar, made by somebody named Lizanne fr. Ventura, Ca. It had 20g of protein. Two yogurts - I usually just get blueberry Dannon, a quart of $4.59 'just apple' juice. A banana (18 cents - the entire bunch was only 46 cents). This morning my only meal was polishing off the other half of the apple juice from last night, and another 'Think Thin'. Found that I'm drinking almost no coffee anymore - maybe just in the morning. You don't need coffee when you're active.

Still plan to bike to Boulder - when I get a bike, plan to get 'The Art of Bisquir', maybe some other books.

Had a 'Patch Adams' moment today in the Wal-Mart lot. Yesterday, inside the library, I saw a moth going thru the window torture. 'Forgive them Lord, for they know not what they do', I said - referring to the cruel humans, of course.

Tried about 4 times to catch it in a paper towel. Luckily, it was a moth, so did keep coming back to the paper towel. Finally, it just sat on the ledge, and I said, "OK, just be quiet, OK?" "I'm not going to hurt you." "I'm going to get you free!" "C,mon." "Just get on the paper."

I sort of scooted him on, and then quickly covered him. It was a long way to go for a moth. Past the computers, past the reception desk, down a flight of stairs to the first floor, past customer service. "OK, we're almost there!" "Hang on!"

I wondered if he would be expired, but somehow knew he wouldn't be. Went out the door, past a group of hispanic teenagers TEENAGE WASTELAND RAGERS CALL UP THEIR BUDDIES ON FACEBOOK TO TRASH ANOTHER HOUSE.

I walked by, "There's the grass!!"

I let him out. I don't think I've ever seen a moth happier. He must have leaped right out, and went to light on a plant, then quickly darted to another one, like a honeybee.

The next day, in the Wal-Mart lot, a MOTH landed right on my chest with a PLOP, then flew off. "Patch Adams!", I remembered.

Coffee (using caffeine) works to "wake one up" but after that it reaches a saturation level where it no longer stimulates. I drink coffee during the game mainly for psychological reasons, or simply as I like a coffee sometimes ) but if I am really tired it doesn't help.

I haven't been reading <Elohah>s; stuff but I just did seeing A.C.Argent>'s thing here - well -

You have the potential to be a great writer <elohah>! That stuff about the moth is brilliant, and the Patch Adams moment and all that...you have a poetic-prose talent and an ability for quick fire wit and observation, phrasing, as well as a lyricism etc (I think maybe Richard Brautigan, Pynchon, Vonnegut, Kaufman yes or Thurber and even a touch Iain Sinclair and others) - your "ravings" are quite astounding!