[MD] Platt's Missing point.

Platt Holden plattholden at gmail.com
Sat Aug 30 09:52:57 PDT 2008


> > [Platt]
> > So there is no point?  
> > 
> > [Krimel]
> > Do you think there is a point?
> 
> Platt,
> Krimel suspects you are just an AI bot endlessly keeping a dialog going
> with
> repetition and meaningless questions. I would say you actually do pass
> the
> Turing Test but barely. I'd give you a D-. Anyway he asked me to come
> off
> the bench and repeat the following. Even though I posted it a long time
> ago
> in response to some unrelated issues. It is as true today as it was then.
> It
> might also help you figure out why your point is missing. It could be
> pure
> lack of substance.
> 
> Later,
> Case
> 
> 
> 
> Platt's point wakes up in a world that keeps 
> Its horizons close to the vest.
> It could reach out and touch the setting sun
> But that might burn, if not a finger, then 
> Another holy hole in Platt's point's holey Whole.
> 
> Platt's point's near horizon is made
> Of Swiss cheese
> He spends his intellectual capital on sun block
> And Foster Grant wrap-arounds
> Platt's point has dead bolts on 
> The Doors of Perception
> Platt's point buys flu shots
> On the AM band
> 
> Platt's point staggers down the street. 
> Too weak to defend itself
> Terrified of Others
> Immoral hippies and followers of Allah
> Christians and communists
> I, Me, Mine against Them.
> Platt's point has no one to lean on.
> Platt's point has nothing to support itself.
> 
> But when Platt's point stumbles, it is safe
> It does not have enough weight to draw it to the ground
> When Platt's point bumps its skull 
> Nothing is disturbed
> Platt's point is a tune stuck in its own head
> Endless "Turkey in the Straw"
> Platt's point knows that if you can't sing well
> Sing loud, clap your hand and stomp your feet
> Platt's point is a one man band teaching
> By passers how to walk faster

Awful poetry. What's your point?



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