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Slow News Day
ReplyDeleteMy hair needs trimming
The bills are caught up
But my car makes a worrisome noise
Not a happy sound
Always money leaving my sad castle of pennies
An overweight man walks precariously
In front of my living room window
He totters
(How rarely people use this word)
I predict a stroke in his near future
Unfortunately I'm good at that kind of thing
It's almost midnight
The presses stopped hours ago
Catherine Powers
March 31, 2013
Copyright 2013
Non-fat Decaf Latte and One of Those Cookies
ReplyDeleteWith The Edge Dipped in Dark Chocolate
Don't talk about the news. Don't talk
about the news. The word "coffee" has
a double consonant and a double noun.
"cappuccino" has a pair of double consonants.
"caffe macchiato" has a pair of
double consonants but it's
two words. So, does that count?
Maybe inviting him for coffee wasn't the
smartest thing in the world. Maybe he doesn't
like coffee. No. I saw him, he was having coffee
with his friends. No. I'm sure he likes coffee.
North, South, East, West. That doesn't spell
anything. North, East, West, South would spell
"news". What else could I make of the word
"news"?
I'm going to run out of things
to talk about. We don't really have
that much in common. This was a stupid
idea. If he wanted to get together, he
would have said something.
If you turn the word backwards, you get
"swen". That a name, isn't it? No, that's
"Sven". Chekov - not Anton, Anton
spelled Chekhov with an 'h',
Pavel (Chekov without an 'h') - would
pronounce 'west' with a 'v'. Yeah.
South, Vest, East, North. Pavel
would call him "Sven".
Don't talk about the news. Don't
talk about the news. He's not coming.
Don't talk about the news. Don't talk
about the news. He's not coming.
Don't talk about the news.
- Mike Fedel, 2013