All locked threads. All due to awful poetry. Take a look.
That poem will be worse soon :-)
lol!! I don't know about worse. Probably better. It'd be hard to make it worse.
Gold Metal Flake (1000+ posts) Fri Aug-13-10 10:16 PM
Response to Original message
16. I had the same concern as Prisoner_Number_Six
I have seen the effects more than once and it is so frightening. Your reply to Prisoner_Number_Six was a relief.
So much introspection today. Starting with Stephanies coming out. Other stuff. This poem. A very thought-inducing day.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=9463223&mesg_id=9463223
All locked threads. All due to awful poetry. Take a look.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x9463571
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x9463573
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x9463646
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x9463574
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x9463672
Anyone know what this is about?
As usual, poetry stinks IMO, but a total over-reaction by some posters and moderators.
Is there anything that doesn't offend them ?
Yes the poem is gawd-awful but CP did try to capture what she imagines is inside of an angry Alzheimer's patient's mind .
She took some artistic license, and I can't fault CP for that. But I can and will fault her for her total failure of a poem.
Seneca (1000+ posts)
Fri Aug-13-10 09:38 PM
Response to Reply #8
9. I am not "snarking". I sincerely think it is insulting to patients of Alzheimer's and their loved ones to play a game of poetic make-believe with the disease.
It strikes me as a jejune attempt to be 'deep' and to get easy praise that is unearned.
Seneca (1000+ posts)
Sat Aug-14-10 12:38 AM
Response to Reply #30
42. If it was attempting to express empathy
It failed.
It seemed more like a paint-by-numbers laundry list of fragmented ideas - "this is what I imagine Alzheimer's to be like". :shrug:
TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts)
Sat Aug-14-10 01:58 AM
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9. ZOMG I CRITICIZED TEH POETRY
As usual, poetry stinks IMO, but a total over-reaction by some posters and moderators.
I haven't known anyone close who has had this disease, so I really can only have an opinion about the horrible poetry. I do find it odd that she'd pick that as a topic though, having no personal experience with it. Maybe she should write a poem about writing bad poems. Or write a poem about selfishness. She certainly has knowledge about those things.
I haven't known anyone close who has had this disease, so I really can only have an opinion about the horrible poetry. I do find it odd that she'd pick that as a topic though, having no personal experience with it. Maybe she should write a poem about writing bad poems. Or write a poem about selfishness. She certainly has knowledge about those things.
A song of Alzheimer's
Would that they forget the words.
I don't think it's so much the poem, I think it's an accumulation of things, they're fighting like crazy over there, the pro-Obama and anti-Obama people, people are being pizza'd like crazy, and some are feeling like they have to suppress their feelings, add to that the mid-terms not looking good for the Democrats.........excuse me a second............. :lmao: .............OK, back to the subject now, and the DU literally looks like it's boiling over.