! The Guy Who Ones Us.. Poem by Michael Shepherd
! The Guy Who Ones Us..
and there’s this guy,
hits my poems every day
devotedly
that’s a lot of poems
doesn’t read them,
just hits them
to dropp another 1 in the voting box
on new poems, or ones he’s already oned, alike
he or she no surely he
girls have better things to do
saw some poems had rated 10
naturally assumed that this was faked
because he’s like that, decided
it was time to take me down a peg
but adding his comments – no,
too public, better do it secretly
then announce it publicly
as an act of holy justice..
if a poem’s got no rating – bliss!
a very public 1 like a steaming turd…
if it’s already got a 10, a 1
will bring that down to 5.5..
and there’s always tomorrow..
a 10, two ones make 4.0..
a 10, three ones, make 3.3.. and so on…
alas for him, he can’t ever reduce my score
with 10 plus 1 to the xth, to lower than 1.0…
funny, I still feel the same me in my poems…
I hope there’s only one of him,
it’s an awful waste of time, chasing
a paper power, a passing screen…
fun though it is, to spread childish smears
across the adult world…
needless to say, his many weeks of work
have served to elevate our hit-rate…
and as we sink on one list, then we rise
on another… the injustice of it all…
now the real false figures are his, not ours…
and then, he thought, it’s time for Frank..
and then, for Tara.. and who next?
maybe some I haven’t spotted?
That high scorer above all,
Nikki, so far, has escaped his attention…
But then, Nikki has no poems to one!
last year, he was called Joe Fazio or some such,
this year, he’s called ‘Poet Watch’..
if only… I’d be happier, as a poet,
if he had read the poems he oned…
We can't ALL be well-adjusted and rational, Michael. I feel pity for The Oner (I've even given him a title to make him feel more human) . Your poems are not down-graded in any way by his little point. Which leads me onto... no never mind... Just keep up your excellent writings. Love, Fran xxx
Well I always give you a ten and it just brought you up to an 8.8. You've it the nail right on the head and it is a male and you best not have a higher ranking or you become dead meat. There's an old saying, 'he who doth Protest TOO much.' Quite true, I believe...And I got that Tara thing and made sure PH knew of it and they have stopped but by myself, the ones I've missed having only been here since Feb. I've been trying to get scores up. I noticed it on yours and thought OMG, he's in the top ten that could mean the '1' man bandit attack and on Tara of all people.... You made me laugh with this one and that is with a jaw ligament pull that I just did today...Not supposed to open my mouth, goodness, what will become of me? ? ? I will continue to try and get the numbers up when I go into your poems. You are one of the best here and the gal below you and of course a few others as well....marci. :) [don''t use the numbers myself, not worth the grief for me]
PS. A ten from me takes you up to 8.6. So yay, he read this one! ! ! ! :) t x
Michael, given that you appear to be the biggest target on here for his Oneness I would be looking very close to home for the id of the wind-up merchant. Nearly all of your boxes have been oned so far as I can see. An enemy would grow tired of it, and I doubt if you have any on here. No, I'd be looking at close 'cyber' friends, for someone who'd get a kick out of winding you up at great length - in the belief that someday you'd react! Fran was just about to make an interesting point there too! ! But, no I don't think it's malice. I think it's a comic with time on his hands. Best to you.. jim
i hear you, Michael. Never been hit by 'the oner', but by a twoer, and once by a fourer. Wonder how long it took him to figure out he was actually helping you?
Michael, when Poet Watch wrote to me last week, I was very cross, particularly when he didn't give me an opportunity to reply to his mealy mouthed insinuation about fairness and 'fudging stats'. But I've been re-reading your poetry since then and realize how silly I was to worry. Your poems are so original and inspiring, the number in the box beside them is irrelevant. How curious that someone who purports to be interested in poetry feels so threatened by someone whose whole being is filled with compassion. What a twit. love, Allie xxxx
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4/18/2024 4:02:32 PM # 1.0.0.1119
Now, did you 'one' yourself to get the ball-bag rolling? Danny