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Asher,

I appreciate all of your comments. Not discouraging in the least, though I am so puzzled why everyone believes this is abstract. I'm NOT saying that it's not (since if everyone is saying it, then it must be true). I believe I'm being as concrete as possible.

Having said that, I will work harder at the points you bring up.

Thanks for the generous read.

J.

: Jables--
: who are the Infidels?
: Where is the water?
: Why is the water empty (perhaps) or is that a
: trope?
: Who are the infidels killing?
: Why would I allow myself to come up with
: conjectures on what you may be thinking if
: the poem exists as one abstraction?
: Why do they tear down the "stars" or
: is that a pleasing way of saying, people
: were shot?
: Why is M introduced so late in the poem and I'm
: supposed to catch some import in his being
: named; as though the piece was always so
: precise in naming?

: Perhaps, write down what you need to say in
: prose, consider it for weeks, suffer with it
: and allow it to grow inflamed inside you,
: until you have no choice but to write it.
: That's what TR Sterlings PhD. said at the
: conference of Canadian Poetics. And I follow
: him like a god damn maniac.

: Anyway, don't mind me. It would be cool to see
: a revision of this, if you feel so inclined.
: I hope my comments are not discouraging.

: Infidels