Dymitri, I could not find your other post to me, but I know I read it this morning. In any case, I know exactly what you said. I was so shocked you did not catch my mocking sarcasm. You were the one, D! who taught me to say, "No?" in such a way that was not an affirmation at all, but a negation. You taught me that literary device that could be read in either the positive or the negative depending on the context. Of course, the classification system is corrupt. The entire criminal justice system is profoundly broken. Justice? No way. You can't see the context of other posts on BTB but there are other posters in Cali that have felt the sting of injustice. In some cases, such as release for old age or terminal illness, the laws are being broken by the system itself. And yet no one is accountable. In any case, I think your post said something like, "You of all people..." EXACTLY. True that. Short text bursts are not face-to-face communication where body language and nuance is revealed by communicator. Anyway, I wish I could find that message, so I would know if I addressed your concerns. Okay, more soon by snail mail. FJP
I was disappointed to see you did not get my snail mail. Of course I can reprint it and I can also send you an update from two and a half months later!
My tieing the troll to "Whispers," is simply the hate posts got particularly hateful after you posted his obit. I mean it was a sad enough story already for those who followed his journey on BTB, to hear as Paul Harvey would say, "The Rest of the Story," but to hear the hate speech spewing from that particular hater was just hard, D. Plain and simple. You know how upset it made me and in turn, made you, after I took steps to get some of the hate speak deleted. I learned lessons you taught me from all that, and I hate to bring it up now after all this time has passed. For you to see the "blessing" in the curse is so you, D. Although it did not "raise your blood pressure," you might say, when anyone messes with my friends, they are messing with me. So yeah, I got my granny undies in a bunch...time goes by, we get older, and things look different. Sigh. In any case, let me get to your other post. FJP
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My tieing the troll to "Whispers," is simply the hate posts got particularly hateful after you posted his obit. I mean it was a sad enough story already for those who followed his journey on BTB, to hear as Paul Harvey would say, "The Rest of the Story," but to hear the hate speech spewing from that particular hater was just hard, D. Plain and simple. You know how upset it made me and in turn, made you, after I took steps to get some of the hate speak deleted. I learned lessons you taught me from all that, and I hate to bring it up now after all this time has passed. For you to see the "blessing" in the curse is so you, D. Although it did not "raise your blood pressure," you might say, when anyone messes with my friends, they are messing with me. So yeah, I got my granny undies in a bunch...time goes by, we get older, and things look different. Sigh. In any case, let me get to your other post. FJP
Thank you for your lovely poetry :)