Also hard to fake - real heartlessness real ruthlessness real bitchiness real brutality Gillian -----Original Message----- From: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Frederick Pollack Sent: Friday, 19 January 2001 1:01 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Poessays david.bircumshaw wrote: > > > These poems are tendentious, smug, and prosaic. > > I have a suspicious mind, when I'm not being gullible, and tended to think > they were parodies. > > Or hoped so. > > db > > - Doubt it. Real vapidity is hard to fake.