interesting skies

in the mirror, there is ...
a blackness ...
a dark grayness
an omnious darkness
hanging over a sickly yellow haze of morning.
my polluted metropolis, the opening scene of a classic distopia,
receding.

ahead,
faint aqua on the horizon,
under pink and gray baby room decor clouds,
a gap reveals an azure that can't possibly be the same time, in the same sky.

all the media we've invented since those paintings of clouds and sunsets (that garner slightly less respect than those gambling canines), and still nothing can really capture such a sky.

::


(left the SBB book at home today, as well as my coffee mug, and my lunch of leftover turkey!
so eat my free verse, bucko.)

interesting skies

in the mirror, there is ...
a blackness ...
a dark grayness
an omnious darkness
hanging over a sickly yellow haze of morning.
my polluted metropolis, the opening scene of a classic distopia,
receding.

ahead,
faint aqua on the horizon,
under pink and gray baby room decor clouds,
a gap reveals an azure that can't possibly be the same time, in the same sky.

all the media we've invented since those paintings of clouds and sunsets (that garner slightly less respect than those gambling canines), and still nothing can really capture such a sky.

::


(left the SBB book at home today, as well as my coffee mug, and my lunch of leftover turkey!
so eat my free verse, bucko.)

look it up

I mentioned to a few folks back then, but I meant to write it up here as well.

Last week I dreamt that I successfully convinced someone to look up "gullible" in the dictionary.

I had a great story about how the word is derived from "Gulliver".

Since "Gulliver's Travels" had once again been considered too racist for even the reference, recent editions of more sensitive publishers' dictionaries switched from noting this in the definition to just removing the term entirely.

One person went over to find a recent dictionary. Another had flipped open their palmtop to look it up online. Someone else figured it out and grinned at me, shortly before we burst into fits of chuckles.

I'm sure there was more to the dream, but it paled in comparison.

I woke up laughing.

look it up

I mentioned to a few folks back then, but I meant to write it up here as well.

Last week I dreamt that I successfully convinced someone to look up "gullible" in the dictionary.

I had a great story about how the word is derived from "Gulliver".

Since "Gulliver's Travels" had once again been considered too racist for even the reference, recent editions of more sensitive publishers' dictionaries switched from noting this in the definition to just removing the term entirely.

One person went over to find a recent dictionary. Another had flipped open their palmtop to look it up online. Someone else figured it out and grinned at me, shortly before we burst into fits of chuckles.

I'm sure there was more to the dream, but it paled in comparison.

I woke up laughing.