mASF post by "quitesomebody"
posted on: mASF forum: General Discussion newsgroup, May 5, 2005

On 5/10/05 10:56:00 AM, RobinGoodfellow wrote:
>Does anyone know if the first
>poem on the "Use Poetry" page
>(http://fastseduction.com/guid
>e/05_How_to_Handle_Girls/poems
>.shtml) is messed up on
>purpose?

it is. according to ss rules. and YUCK.

>If that is intentional, what
>do you do when the girl knows
>the poem and knows you're not
>even close to getting it
>right?

laugh and say congratulations, she passed your test! aren't cheesy poems the
worst?! now, how does it really go... (get her to remember it with you) so -
is she a poetry fan, a knitpicker, or an english major with nothing better to
do?

the jaques prevert poems are good, but your french had better be decent to
pull'em off. the rest - if you're sarging college students, you'll shoot
yourself in the foot with these ones (with the possible exception of the
butchered frost poem, which, if you play it as a tongue in cheek joke thing,
could actually be made to work FOR you).

i use poetry in sarges. particularly when my target is a lit major or talks
about loving poetry or if it's otherwise pertinent. i usually engage them in a
game of 'what's your favorite line from a poem'. or - i've also used song
lyrics, for the less literarily inclined.

some of my favorite poets/poetry to use for this kind of purpose: the first
few lines of 'the love song of j alfred prufrock' (t.s. eliot). almost
anything by edna st vincent millay. snippets of 'annabell lee' (poe). ee
cummings.

-quitesomebody-

*Everybody's playing the game, but nobody's rules are the same.*

"Just to be clear on this, love is an emotion I can have and choose not to act
on." OceanEyes