Plagiarism:

[billy]

i think there's a difference in learning and even copying someone's style and learning and copying someone's exact phrases and passing them off as your own work. through out life (all walks of it) we see and emulate, it's a natural thing to do. what isn't okay to do is steal someone's skirt and wear it. or sing someone's song and say you wrote it. as the creator of something you at least deserve the recognition of creating it. we don't download films or songs and say "i wrote this bob dylan song: thing is, with net art and net poetry, most of the creators aren't so globally known or well read. in relation to the internet population the odds of having such a well read plath or sexton member on your site would be extremely minimal, lot's of us have read their works but few of us have read it enough to remember it all or even most, verbatim. we were just lucky jack is so into them i would never know the difference.