Mullah Pat Robertson’s Fatwa

Re: # 32
A good cure for jealousy: Instead of having evil intention about someone else`s good, create your own good. Or if you prefer, as Gandhi said:
Be the Change you want to see in the (poetry) world.
Me, I want to see this kind of poetry. You go and write your own type of poetry. Or are you not in favor of the idea of ``live and let live``?
You can follow the writers you choose, it`s fine with me, you have my ``permission``. But don`t expect others to clone you. And when you can`t control others, don`t tell them they are wrong simply because their views or styles are ``different`` from what you perceive. What you find ``unacceptable``, is caused by your ``judgemental`` nature. For example, if I were to use your ``style``, I`d say, you have ``bad behavior``, and definitely a very ``bad attitude`` and are also a ``bad mouth``, and a ``Bad influence``, and possibly ``Bad medicine``, and a ``Bad critic``, and a eventually you will say I`m a bad human. But you know how African Americans use the word ``bad`` and ``fat``
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Re: # 33
Very Funny, made me laugh, Mr. Revolution
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Re: # 32
Okay, let`s take that walk. But I don`t go for walks with someone who wants to attack me as an enemy. So if you want to go for a friendly stroll which will not be a scold, then let`s go. Also, don`t expect that you will be able to have a monologue to ``lecture`` me, instead be ready for a dialogue, and be open to the possibility that you may learn something from me also. Otherwise, go back to your own corner and write your own poem

Re: # 31
From the Qawali by Nusrat, titled ``Piala``, what happened to me
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``Hun Piala Rakh Day Ik Paasay
Aj Nazraan Naal Pila Saqi
Saada Roz Da Peena Muk Jaaway
Aj Aisa Nasha ChaRRha Saqi``

Re: # 30
what`s Raki?
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Is that good medicine for some and bad medicine for others?

Re: # 27
Salim Saheb, very funny
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My brother in law is Sheikh, and when he met a man for the first time, the man said enthusiastically, happily, ``Sir I am Sheikh also``. And my brother-in-law jokingly said ``Nobody`s Perfect``
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Would you happen to know when the Chauhans began to convert to Islam? I`m guessing that Prithvi Raj Chauhan was around in the same era as Hazrat Mueen-ud-Deen Chisti. I think my ancestors became Muslim because of the teachings of Sufi`s like him, because that legacy is still evident in my family

Re: # 29
Wow!
Wonderful.
Salim Saheb, you are very talented.
Very impressive writing
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Re: # 25
If you consider yourself a ``good writer`` or a ``good reader``, why be a ``bad boy``? Perhaps, have some standards, and have some respect toward WORDS. Someone who appreciates writing, appreciates words and doesn`t throw them around carelessly. For example, you`re talking about ``lynching`` in a very irresponsible way. Do you know any history related to this word, do you even know what the word means? Do you care about this word? And throwing around ``lightly`` a subject like ``book burning``, well the Barbarians and Bush, who burned down Baghdad`s libraries and museums, will love you. Are you willing to own your words? All a man has is his word

Re: # 24
Salim Saheb,
Thank you, very kind of you
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I don`t know why is it that when something ``looks different``, it evokes the fear of the unknown in some people. Fear is the enemy of thinking. In psychology, making the unknown, into the known, as it relates to one`s own behavior, requires courage

Re: # 12
Perhaps you`d like to be more specific, or are you just a ``bad reader``, but that would be a judgement, no? Define ``Bad Poetry``. Better yet, define ``Poetry``. The poets in America I`m familiar with, don`t quite have definition. Ever heard of Basquiat? A lot of people wouldn`t call that art

Re: # 11
Define ``Bad Poetry``. Better yet, define ``Poetry``. The poets in America I`ve heard, don`t quite have definition. Ever heard of Basquiat? A lot of people wouldn`t call that art

Oye Fazool!

Dehk! Dont let these Pinky come latelys tell you how to shair! As a bijniz owner in Amrika, I know it is my right to badmouth my country and its poetic institutionals! You and I see eyeball to eyeball, hain? Here is my jawaab to these socialism society pinky types:


Watch dog bark on a hot summer night,
Kill my landlord, kill my landlord,
watch dog bark, though he bite,
kill my landlord, kill my landlord,
slip in his window, break his neck,
then his house I start to wreck,
got no reason, what the heck!
kill my landlord, kill my landlord,
C-I-L-L my landlord.




Is not revolutionary, hain???

``writer``,

re:

``But perhaps you`re not ``used to`` unusual styles, which could be due to indoctrination?``

I beg your pardon? To which ``indoctrination`` do you refer?

The Lyric Poets?
The Beats?
The Black Mountain Poets?
The Nuyoricans?
The Black Arts Movement?
The Imagists?

And...when did a fresh metaphor or the aesthetics of defamilliarization become a poem`s enemy? If you want, we could take a walk through your poem-the textual equivalent of Chucky Cheez...

#30, Hamid Sahib, {``salim,
..... you deserve this secret recipe for lion`s milk :
ingredients
1 oz. raki
1 oz. water``}

Now you tell me, Sir. I just finished tying my only raki on Tempy`s tender wrist. :)

Actually, in Turkey we use raki to clean the tables, then we consume delicious Efes beer. :)

Did you know that raki is probably short for araki or arak - juice?

Salim

salim,


..... you deserve this secret recipe for lion`s milk :

ingredients
1 oz. raki
1 oz. water

mixing instruction
serve at room temp in lowball

sagligina !

Hamidm Sahib,
Inqilaab Zindabad.


Salim ko isliye mara ke jeena jaanta tha woh
Apne dushmanoN ka khun pina janta tha woh

Yeh basti, uff! yeh basti jisko Chowkistan kehte heN
JahaN ban ban ke hakim ``liberal`` haiwaan rehte heN

JahaN ka jailkhaana mujahidoN se bharta jata he
JahaN par parchame jhoot-o-faraib sansanata he

Yeh basti, uff yeh basti jisko Chowkistan kehte heN