While I knew posting the poem itself was a slight breach of netiquette (I should have just linked to it) I thought I was being helpful. It was good stuff, why not share the love right?
Well the other day I received this in my email (I'm only posting the highlights here).
So sorry. I thought people wrote things, then posted them on public websites because they wanted them to be read.Charles Rice? hmm?
Nope, I don't recall giving you permission to re-publish
my work.
[Snip]But, as a "writer" you
must know the big chunk of "you" that comes out and
onto the paper when you write something like this.
Now I realize that, as a "writer" the "you" that comes out on the page really just wants to be left alone.
Happy to oblige.
2 comments:
Wow... Attack of the net nerd.
You say you found the poem on a special ops website? The problem with stuff like that is they are most often posted by "groupies" who have never been and will never be.
I used to be an operator back in the day. I am a writer now. A little exposure would have gone a long way and this person is being up tight.
My next battlefield haiku is for you sir!
Lol, yeah.
When I first got the email, I frantically went looking through all the B&G II books, thinking I had accidentally quoted this guy's poem in one of my books without permission.
Then I realized he meant my *blog*.
In other words, I was posting it in one imaginary box, rather than the imaginary box of his choice.
So then I got ticked lol.
Still, if he doesn't want it here, that's his decision, which is why I removed it before I vented (complete with John Cleese apology).
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