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Dear All, can I say something? I think there are bits of our occasional and informal conversations that are - I am sure it happens by mere chance - so stimulant and original as to deserve copyright protection (?). Unless Poetryetc get the status of a location protected by copyright , then it is better that the gold that we orally produce, pouring it from our mouths, stays private. I don't see why those who think it is not worth wasting their time contributing to the ongoing conversations even by intervening just for the sake of entering a polemical debate should benefit of the such a creative field of social interaction. If this is a show like a TV talk show than one should be able to recognize it as a media production for the public entertainment, like the Jerry Spingler (? misspelled) Show or the Italian Maurizio Costanzo Show. Why not. Then we should find sponsors to advertise our practises in the field of poetry which we do for the benefit of us as much as this supposed audience (do not call these people larkers anymore, they are no more no less the same as we are when we watch TV). So if this is true, then we are all entitled to put on personas as in theatre (but we are already doing it, are we not). When you meet one of the people on line in person, who indeed on line might sound unbearable to you, when you meet that person, I stress, in the real life of our daily struggles and habits, in general he/she is no less than a sweetie. (here follows my revised pre-natal poem, written, if I remember well, from the labyrinth of my mother’s gutters of blood and fluids, in that soft shell of resonance that was her womb. Did I start writing at such an early stage: yes, I did..) Erminia “In the labyrinth” when I received this hideous foot I looked at it touched it measured it put it in my mouth sucked it especially the toe when I received this muscular hand I tested it distrusted it criticized it loathed it repudiated it and finally put it away when I received my tongue of thankfulness and delight oh, how many things I made with that red long smooth speech of mine when I received these two ears I believed that I was who I am not because of the use I made of them but because of their observable shells Erminia, 12.8.2001 quando ho ricevuto il mio bel piede l'ho guardato l'ho toccato l'ho osservato l'ho messo in bocca l'ho succhiato specialmente l'alluce quando ho ricevuto la mia mano l'ho scrutata l'ho sospettata l'ho criticata l'ho rifiutata l'ho disprezzara e infine l'ho messa da parte quando ho ricevuto la mia lingua di grazie e di delizie quante cose ci ho fatto con quella mia lingua rossa e lunga liscia liscia quando ho ricevuto queste due orecchie ho creduto d'essere un essere non gia' per l'uso che ne ho fatto ma per la loro forma perfetta e osservabile “In the labyrinth” when I received this hideous foot I looked at it touched it measured it put it in my mouth sucked it especially the toe when I received this muscular hand I tested it distrusted it criticized it loathed it repudiated it and finally put it away when I received my tongue of thankfulness and delight oh, how many things I made with that red long smooth speech of mine when I received these two ears I believed that I was who I am not because of the use I made of them but because of their observable shells Erminia, 12.8.2001