When I see...
11/10/2003 08:13 a.m.
...a poem that already has many comments on it, I immediately lose whatever desire I may have had to comment on it, even if I like the poem in question a lot and would comment on it, otherwise. I don't know why. Maybe it's the idea that there's nothing left to say that this person hasn't already heard. Maybe it's not wanting to seem like I'm jumping on a bandwagon by liking something. When the more popular of the people I am fans of post new poems, I only really comment if I get there early enough that the comments section is still a little bare. The only person I really give an exception to is Kristine. I try to get there first, but if I don't, I'll usually comment anyway. It was the same way with Jonathan. I used to comment on nearly all of his poems, no matter who had beaten me to the punch.

I never have much to say, anyhow, so I'm sure this is no one's loss.