To My Landlords

I have disabled
the fire alarm
that was in
the basement

and which
you were probably
using
for safety.

Forgive me
it was obnoxious
so shrieky
and so loud.

(With apologies to William Carlos Williams.)

For quite some time I've been meaning to add something to my userinfo that tells people just how many cats and cat people I know. What I have not been meaning to add is something explaining just why it is that I'm surrounded by so many of them, mostly because until tonight I had no idea as to the cause. But I have now, officially, figured it out! ( Read more... )

1. I have scoliosis.

2. That was how my day started. (fortunately it's not a problem or anything)

3. In re: my last (locked) post, I did not make up the spit metaphor, I am sorry to say.

4. If life were a game of croquet, I would just have gone rogue.

The Delphic oracle in The Winter's Tale behaves in a manner totally unsuitable to the Delphic oracle. It's clear and concise; Leontes can fool himself without any help. For once the role of the oracle is to correct a wrong, or try to, rather than to passively encourage one in a man walking backwards - straight into a tree. Leontes' flaw is not a ( Read more... )