Considering Suicide

[rayheinrich]

Mark said: "Your suggestions are appreciated, but again I will say that
I feel more familiar with my own language and that 'bollard' is foreign
and unfamiliar to me. It also does not accomplish what I want to say.
Thanks for your help anyway."

Ha! Mark, this is "Poetry For Fun", you're not supposed to take my comment
as serious criticism. Oh, maybe you're sarcastically acting serious...
hmm, if so you've got me fooled.


grannyjill said: "I once started a poem with Higgledy piggledy
houses....a bunch of Americans ganged up on me saying my use of these
words made my verse seem like a Dr. Seus poem, and when I argued back I
was told I should be aware of a wider audience (or words to that
affect). Higgledy piggledy is a perfectly normal phrase used here in the
UK to mean 'untidy' but I took their point."

I don't know where those "Americans" were coming from (maybe Ignorance,
Nevada?), but not only is "higgledy piggledy" totally "Mercan" (as we
say it down here in Tejas), it's the name for a type of fun poetry
actually *invented* by Mercans. We used to have informal contests
writing Higgledy Piggledy on that wonderful old forum: "The Writers
Block" (sometime in the mid 90's?).


P.S. Here's a link with Higgledy Piggledy (double dactyl) rules and examples
for anyone interested:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/show...p?t=198616

A wonderful example from the above link:

Higgeldy Piggledy
Sergei Rachmaninov
wrote his concertos for
handspans like wings.

Few realistically
can pianistically
digitalistically
play the damned things.