Billy - PLEASE READ

[Grace]

Just read this.
Addy I’m so sorry.
Sending love xxx

[Radetof.Yahska]

Be strong, Addy.
Billy was a nice man. I never talked to him much or interacted with him meaningfully, but I enjoyed his words and the forum and community he so painstakingly built. It is not often that people leave a mark on people's lives in the way Billy did. I'm sure a man loved by a community of strangers on the internet is a man loved to absolute bits by the ones closest to him. I hope your heartache dulls with time, but your memories of him never do.
Thanks for being, Billy.

[rowens]

Everytime billy doesn't comment on one of my poems on this site, called Pig Pen Poetry, an angel loses one of its wings, and flies crooked. And I don't know if my poems that billy liked were good, or billy just liked them.
It's a legitimate question.

billy had gathered that energy.

Now that some of this site's main characters are gone. Some to death, some to Milo; no one knows what and just guesses, and the more official among it don't comment ate all. Ate all.

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And I liked billy. But never enough.

[Erthona]

Ah bullocks. Billy was a mean bastard and if I were into men, he'd been the first I'd fucked. I know he would have enjoyed it!

RIP you sweet lovable man. I won't be far behind.

dale

Thanks for keeping it up Addy.

[milo]

travel well old man. you are missed and loved.

- your friend

[Weeded]

Thank you Billy for this place, your honesty, and most of all your time.

This place was a light, a bright and shining light, when the world's darkness was trying so hard to take me.

I will be a lifelong member of this place; you made a haven from old dung and fairy dust. A place where objective truth collides with subjection, where we all so badly want to impress, or simply not depress, names like Billy and Leanne, with our hearts and minds.

And while it was near impossible to impress, it was so, so, easy to elicit a comedy. It was so easy to look at your mistakes and laugh, thanks to Billy and his vulgar thoughts.

RIP Billy, you will be missed and appreciated.

[Wildcard]

I saw this news a while back, but when I tried to reply, I just felt like everything I was trying say was wrong.

Billy and I didn't always see eye to eye, but I always respected him. I met him as a troll (and what a troll he was) on a completely different forum. It always impressed me at how many times he got banned from that forum without ever once making the staff mad at him. They loved him!

He was just that kind of guy. He could be having a go at you directly, and you'd still have to admit that it was clever and well-done.

Sad to see this legend pass away, but thankful that he is at peace.

Here's to Billy, with thoughts and prayers to family and friends.

[rowens]

The sad thing about billy dying is, there were several reasons for him not to.

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And plus, if he hadn't died, he'd probably still be alive.
That's what gets to me.

That, above anything else.

[cidermaid]

So saddened by the double hit of news about both Billy and Leanne,  this world has many stars that shine in our lives and for me they were both bright and clear beacons of inspiration.   What can ever be said to make suitable tribute to those who have touched our lives in a positive way but (in this case) we never actually met?   I admired and loved both with equal affection and have missed them in my last few years of forlorn wandering, made sadder now by the knowledge that i wasted my time collecting stones when i could have been feeding on the elixir that dripped from Leanne's fingers and the gift of grace of space to just be, that Billy made for us all.

[Skye]

❤️
I never had the chance to meet or get to know Billy but am grateful for the work done to create this place. Through all the other comments,I realize he was special, influencing creativity, marvelous. There is tons of love in this place.
I'm convinced he's continuing his Journey, and for that, there is even more gratefulness. ❤️

[busker]

There are times when I'm away from the Pen for long periods of time, being busy with something or the other. But it remains an acre of green grass for air and exercise for the mind, as Yeats said. Billy's labour of love has changed so many lives and continues to do so, even as the man himself has returned to the elements of the cosmos.
His was a life well lived.

[nakeltbg]

sending love to billy’s family and friends

[danny_]

The last I checked the site was down for awhile. I was about to smile seeing it was back up, until news of at least two highly active and helpful writers, long-time Billy and Leanne, are gone. I don't know what happened, nor what else, since I can't bare go digging around to find out. I decided to just share my feelings for now.

I share with you who miss and appreciate them. Also, I share in sending love to their families and friends. They both commented with seasoned wisdom, and my work benefited from it. I thank them for a willingness to share their experience as writers, be kind, be tough, and for all their help. Good people, and our loss.

These and many others have not deserved death. I believe the care we feel is reflected in greater depth by higher beings. And that there is a kindness in the universe that will do them a justice that has yet to be done.

Rest in peace, in thoughtless sleep
while you know nothing of pain,
nor of higher beings' care
who long your time to awake:
justice' role in loyal love.
May I also see you there.

[Quixilated]

Happy Birthday, Billy.  Miss you.

[addy]

So many beautiful kind thoughts here, it just shows the kind of man he is and the kind of life he has. So sorry for all of us who miss him but always truly grateful for all the love

[addy]

[rowens]

I think of Billy every time I see one of those rolling on the ground laughing emoticons. Is that still the appropriate nomenclature?  . . . He was a Smiley Face rolling in filth. Pounding his angry and jovial fists against the Earth with wry joy and repetitive joviality.

Where's you and your repetitive joviality, Addy? 
You've never been an angel of the morning, but you're a smart dish who has poems in you. I remember you.

You got more bollocks in you than one or seven dogs, right?

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I still, sometimes, wonder what Billy would have to say about certain things posted on this site.

[busker]

I'm out by a month, but I was going over some of my older posts on the site and just realised that billy was my buddy on this site. We shared a sense of humour. I wonder what he'd have made of Ricky Gervais's latest sketch on the 'new women with beards and c**ks'. Come to think of it, he was a bit like Gervais, in his appreciation of the outrageous.
Miss you, old man.

[ZHamilton]

I didn't join until recently, but the initial forum welcome message I received was from Billy. So the fact that there are people finding this community is a testament to what he helped build.

[cjchaffin]

Oh. I've been away for quite some time and this is not the post I expected to come back to.

If there is an afterlife, I hope Billy is there, jabbing someone with a quill. That would bring me joy. I always enjoyed his banter and wit, and of course his keen eye and ability to help me hone my own craft. He provided a space for me to grow when I needed it. Thank you, Billy. Much love.