Friday, January 18, 2008

On your marks, get set...

Hello, roomies.
You are looking at a blog. A blog for people. A blog for people who live in a certain house in Hampden in Baltimore in Maryland in blah blah blog. Namely us.
Ideally, each member of our home will post a post on a semi-regular basis-basis. That post will be posted here, on this blog-blog. OK?
OK.
I don't know, it's just an idea. We can rant and rave about each other, tell Mason to do the dishes, share Zuzu anecdotes, whatever. We can do things like post this stupid poem that I just wrote:


Upon realizing that I’d let me Frequent Flier Miles from a trip to Antarctica expire before taking advantage of them, I felt sad and wrote this poem

Excuse me for a moment
While I mourn the loss of Antarctica
I had 20,000 airplane miles—
More than that—
Stored up for a rainy day
But the airplane people took it away
Or rather I let it slip

Oh

Global warming is happening
Global mourning is happening
I am mourning the loss of Antarctica
All the miles it took to get there
The international dateline
And the eternal sun

I’ve heard it said that planes are a leading cause of global warming
Circling, circling
A plane that never comes down
The midnight sun
I mourn the loss of Antarctica
Those miles, and all they meant to me
I mourn the loss of those miles
And the world they represent
Freedom
Ice
The past—


Oh well.



There now. Otherwise that poem would have disappeared, I would have gotten it out of my system and thrown it away. But now it's on the internet. Which means it'll last forever.

Lunchtime! Post!

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