Play For Today: Better Latte Than Never

19 January 2009 | 11:55 PM

OK, before you start yelling at me for taking a breather from my resolution, let me first attempt to excuse it by pleading exhaustion after an impromptu series of school closings turned last week into a scene out of Mr. Mom. And if that doesn’t placate you……look over there – it’s something shiny!

In all seriousness, thank you to the hundreds dozens several of you who publicly and/or privately for admonished me for falling down on the job. I needed a swift kick in the virtual ass to get into a groove again. Anyway, I figured I’d get back in the saddle tonight with another stab at being a bard, with “stab” being the operative word, since after reading this you’ll surely either want to stab me to death or your own eyes out. But, as the poet once said: “Ye doth not liketh? Getteth thee thine own blog, swine!”

With Room

(“101 Sex Secrets That Will Drive Him Wild”)

(What television show features Superman in every episode?)

(Maybe Eva Mendes is the nice one?)

(What’s the difference between “saddlebacking” and “saddlebagging”?)

(“If your life before you became a Christian was a movie, which movie would it be?”)

I shudder to think of all I would not even dare to consider
if you were not there,
with room.

It occurs to me I’m nowhere near good enough at this to be tinkering around with form so much, but frankly sometimes I need a bit of a device to loosen up the ol’ creative logjam. And at least it kept me from busting out yet another haiku, right? In any case, there it is: feel free to stab away.

Posted by Andy in Play For Today