[Mary Moore]

I'm going crazy. I just read a great poem called "Zombies" by Guy Lake on non-met which had one empty reply by someone unregistered. I wrote a second reply and when I went back to read it, the entire "Zombie" thread had disappeared. I wouldn't be so freaked out if the whole thing didn't have to do with Zombies. EKK!
Mary

[Guy Lake]

Thanks for the heads up, Mary. I reposted it. Not sure what happened there.

[Robert Meyer]

Did you look at the date? The <u>13th</u>. The real Zombies are on the prowl for poets...

Robot Meyer

[Mike Slippkauskas]

Haven't read the General Talk item, but assume there was some good moderatorial reason for deletion if this was done deliberately.


The above is a quotation from the "Zombie" thread on Non-Met. Doesn't this strike you a bit like "But he's our President and Commander-in-Chief and I think it's best we trust him, especially in times of war" (not to be OTT on the war business)? But what could be a "good moderatorial reason"? The poem may share a supernatural theme with a poem by one considered a poetic god around here, but that clearly doesn't rise to plagiarism. I prefer to "assume" that the deletion was an accident of some kind, as I really can't wrap my head around any other possibility.

Very best to all,
Mike Slipp

P.S. Sorry for the snarky tone on Richard Wilbur. He's a god to me as well, but really, how could any of us dare a line if we kept remembering that so-and-so has a poem on blackerries or lilacs or junk or clipped toads or vampires or boring parties?

[Rose Kelleher]

I wouldn't assume it was deleted on purpose by a mod. This board occasionally experiences weird little techno-glitches.