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[Guest_Nina_*]

James

You are most welcome

Nina

[jgdittier]

Dear James,
I'm still new here at least in my opinion. I think of "new" as not having to feel that I know the members and can then judge how to respond to a posted piece.
I have long thought that modern poetry is not suitable to humor.
Not knowing you well I first responded to "Pheasants..."  as attempted humor. I didn't think of it as successful.
Then reading the comments I learned enough to review in my own mind a concept I'd not thought deeply about before. I'm a liberatarian and so my first thought is to respect the choices of others or differently expressed over here, "buzz off". However, considering man's feral urge to kill wantonly in the name, believe it, of sport, is
difficult to simply put out of one's mind.
Indeed I do believe man lowers himself, perhaps even below most animals, in killing for sport.
That left me with a need to comment on the poem, yet to do so without alienating the hunters or yourself.
For the hunters, may I say that "that's what makes a horserace".
To you, I believe such a topic coming from deep conviction requires
either additional poetic expression to assure that the reader interprets it properly or suitable footnotes.
On second thought, if we all stay friends, my typing finger has been unnecessarily stressed.
Cheers,    jgd