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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: NastyGoon lifts a line
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2025 18:34:13 +0000
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On Sun, 9 Feb 2025 17:49:10 +0000, George J. Dance wrote:

> On Sat, 8 Feb 2025 18:44:46 +0000, W.Dockery wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 7 Feb 2025 0:04:15 +0000, George J. Dance wrote:
>>
>>> https://www.novabbs.com/arts/article.php?id=255731&group=alt.arts.poetry.comments
>>> On Mon, 3 Feb 2025 16:15:27 +0000, Michael Monkey Peabrain (MPP) aka
>>> "HarryLime" wrote:
>>>
>>>> I realized from the content of NancyGene's posts that they were
>>>> intelligent, well-educated, and better written than anyone here.
>>>> Naturally, I asked them to start contributing to the "Sampler."  And I
>>>> was right in doing so.
>>>>
>>>> Here are the opening lines of NancyGene's latest poem:
>>>>
>>>> "Yesterdays stack up like piles of read newspapers,
>>>> Cluttering my mind and obstructing my day."
>>>>
>>>> That's poetry of the highest quality.
>>>
>>> The opening line is very good. It's almost as good as the opening line
>>> of Robert Creeleys poem, "The Days Pile Up":
>>>
>>> "The days pile up like unread newspapers,"
>>>
>>> I do hope "Dr." NastyGoon credited Mr. Creeley; otherwise that would be
>>> something they would call, you know -- "plagiarism".
>>
>> Apparently not, as NG has Michael Pendragon here to defend and try to
>> explain away her second handed thoughts.
>>
>> And so it goes.
>
> I did hear back from "Dr." NastyGoon; they left a comment in this
> thread. Their story, which they admit they've only assumed, is that
> Creeley's poem doesn't even exist. (They didn't say whether they assumed
> Creeley exists or not.)

Yes, I know they're still on that track.

My 1976 poem, with the line:

"The seconds have piled up at the floor, lost here in some other guy's
past."

Does exist.

Here's the scan:

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/19tGR4QwH3/