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stonepicnicking_okapi) wrote2025-05-20 04:34 pm
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Views & News
1. I got a call from a home health agency called Visting Angels. I submitted my resume to their website and went to a CPR class on Thursday to get up-to-date credentials. We'll see. I haven't applied for any more jobs and neither Wal-Mart nor the grocery store have called me back.
2. The boys' father left for Kenya on Saturday. He will be back on Monday. It looks like he will have work until July and then (maybe) the Gates Foundation might fund them for another two years. We'll see.
3. So I am home alone with the boys. Saturday I spent 4 hours sitting under a tree reading while Minisculus went to his elementary school Spring Fair and Sunday we spent 6 hours at Minor's track meet. Tonight I have Mom Taxi duties to and fro to soccer and track practices.
Not much is going on.
2. The boys' father left for Kenya on Saturday. He will be back on Monday. It looks like he will have work until July and then (maybe) the Gates Foundation might fund them for another two years. We'll see.
3. So I am home alone with the boys. Saturday I spent 4 hours sitting under a tree reading while Minisculus went to his elementary school Spring Fair and Sunday we spent 6 hours at Minor's track meet. Tonight I have Mom Taxi duties to and fro to soccer and track practices.
Not much is going on.
stonepicnicking_okapi (stonepicnicking_okapi) wrote2025-05-20 04:32 pm
stonepicnicking_okapi) wrote2025-05-20 04:32 pmYahtzee Roll #6
GYWO Yahtzee Prompt Coding
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stonepicnicking_okapi (stonepicnicking_okapi) wrote2025-05-19 07:29 am
stonepicnicking_okapi) wrote2025-05-19 07:29 amEntry tags:
stonepicnicking_okapi (stonepicnicking_okapi) wrote2025-05-18 10:30 am
stonepicnicking_okapi) wrote2025-05-18 10:30 amEntry tags:
Sherlock Sunday: The Naval Treaty
"The Adventure of the Naval Treaty" was published in the Oct-Nov 1893 edition of The Strand.
Here's the summary:
Percy Phelps, a Foreign Office employee, seeks Sherlock Holmes' help after a valuable naval treaty is stolen from him. Holmes deduces it was taken by someone using the back stair. Phelps, still recovering from an illness and being cared for by his fiancée Annie, lays out the case. Holmes investigates, suspecting the involvement of the Tangeys and clerk Gorot. Lord Holdhurst reveals the treaty hasn't reached foreign governments yet. Returning to Briarbrae, Holmes discovers the hired nurse has been dismissed by Phelps. That night, someone tries to break into Phelps' room with a knife, but flees when caught. Holmes secretly orders Annie to stay in the room and has Phelps and Watson leave for London. After uncovering Joseph as the thief, Holmes retrieves the stolen treaty from him after a brawl.
I think this story is most notable for Holmes' Rose Speech:
'There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion,' said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. 'It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.'
What the Annotated says about the moss rose: 1. intensely fragrant, 2. with large blossoms and many petals, 3. petals and sepals appear to be covered in green or reddish moss, 3. mutated from damask and cabbage roses, 4. in the language of flowers a moss rosebud means 'confession of love.' and in Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone Sergeant Cuff has thoughts on the moss rose not being grafted to the dog rose.
I think the subplot in BBC Sherlock's episode "The Great Game" was based on this. That why I kept thinking that it was a Mycroft story when it isn't in canon (in the show, Mycroft brings the case to Sherlock and Sherlock pawns it off on John).
The Annotated also says that the Oxford English dictionary credits this story with the first usage of the word 'snick' to mean a sound:
Then grew louder, and suddenly there came from the window a sharp, metallic snick.
And I think another feature of interest is the melodramatic flair of Holmes to put the recovered top secret documents under a covered breakfast of curried chicken. I mean, really:
Here's the summary:
Percy Phelps, a Foreign Office employee, seeks Sherlock Holmes' help after a valuable naval treaty is stolen from him. Holmes deduces it was taken by someone using the back stair. Phelps, still recovering from an illness and being cared for by his fiancée Annie, lays out the case. Holmes investigates, suspecting the involvement of the Tangeys and clerk Gorot. Lord Holdhurst reveals the treaty hasn't reached foreign governments yet. Returning to Briarbrae, Holmes discovers the hired nurse has been dismissed by Phelps. That night, someone tries to break into Phelps' room with a knife, but flees when caught. Holmes secretly orders Annie to stay in the room and has Phelps and Watson leave for London. After uncovering Joseph as the thief, Holmes retrieves the stolen treaty from him after a brawl.
I think this story is most notable for Holmes' Rose Speech:
'There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion,' said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. 'It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.'
What the Annotated says about the moss rose: 1. intensely fragrant, 2. with large blossoms and many petals, 3. petals and sepals appear to be covered in green or reddish moss, 3. mutated from damask and cabbage roses, 4. in the language of flowers a moss rosebud means 'confession of love.' and in Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone Sergeant Cuff has thoughts on the moss rose not being grafted to the dog rose.
I think the subplot in BBC Sherlock's episode "The Great Game" was based on this. That why I kept thinking that it was a Mycroft story when it isn't in canon (in the show, Mycroft brings the case to Sherlock and Sherlock pawns it off on John).
The Annotated also says that the Oxford English dictionary credits this story with the first usage of the word 'snick' to mean a sound:
Then grew louder, and suddenly there came from the window a sharp, metallic snick.
And I think another feature of interest is the melodramatic flair of Holmes to put the recovered top secret documents under a covered breakfast of curried chicken. I mean, really:
smallhobbit (smallhobbit) wrote2025-05-17 11:33 am
smallhobbit) wrote2025-05-17 11:33 amEntry tags:
The Midnight Bell
Back in September 2021, J and I went to the Cheltenham Everyman for the premiere of Sir Matthew Bourne's New Adventures 'The Midnight Bell'. It was my chance to go to something which was entirely new, and something I'd probably never get the opportunity to do again. And I really enjoyed it.
This summer the production is being revived and yet again, to great excitement on my part, the first performance was in Cheltenham. I booked tickets as soon as booking opened, and got excellent stalls seats.
As I said when I originally reviewed this piece, it's very much Sir Matthew Bourne does fan fiction. The Midnight Bell is based on a pub and the characters from six of Patrick Hamilton's books: the trilogy 'Twenty Thousand Streets under the Sky', 'Hangover Square', 'The Slaves of Solitude' and 'The Gorse Trilogy'. I had read the books prior to going the first time, and knowing their stories does help a bit with the characters, but it isn't essential. The dancers and the set were excellent and the music fits in perfectly.
As for the fanfic - take ten characters from different books, put them in the same venue, but use dance instead of written words. For three of the couples keep to canon pairing, for one couple take characters from two different books who have never met, and finally add two original characters.
Because it was the first performance, Sir Matthew Bourne was in the audience, sitting three rows directly in front of me. Sitting next to him was Etta Murfitt, associate artistic director of New Adventures. As we left after the performance, both were standing in the side aisle. J said to Sir Matthew that he'd really enjoyed the performance, and then I got to say that it was brilliant, that we'd been at the very first performance and how delighted I was to be able to see it again. And all without getting totally tongue-tied and spouting rubbish. Which, as you can imagine, made my evening!
This summer the production is being revived and yet again, to great excitement on my part, the first performance was in Cheltenham. I booked tickets as soon as booking opened, and got excellent stalls seats.
As I said when I originally reviewed this piece, it's very much Sir Matthew Bourne does fan fiction. The Midnight Bell is based on a pub and the characters from six of Patrick Hamilton's books: the trilogy 'Twenty Thousand Streets under the Sky', 'Hangover Square', 'The Slaves of Solitude' and 'The Gorse Trilogy'. I had read the books prior to going the first time, and knowing their stories does help a bit with the characters, but it isn't essential. The dancers and the set were excellent and the music fits in perfectly.
As for the fanfic - take ten characters from different books, put them in the same venue, but use dance instead of written words. For three of the couples keep to canon pairing, for one couple take characters from two different books who have never met, and finally add two original characters.
Because it was the first performance, Sir Matthew Bourne was in the audience, sitting three rows directly in front of me. Sitting next to him was Etta Murfitt, associate artistic director of New Adventures. As we left after the performance, both were standing in the side aisle. J said to Sir Matthew that he'd really enjoyed the performance, and then I got to say that it was brilliant, that we'd been at the very first performance and how delighted I was to be able to see it again. And all without getting totally tongue-tied and spouting rubbish. Which, as you can imagine, made my evening!
smallhobbit (smallhobbit) wrote2025-05-16 07:08 pm
smallhobbit) wrote2025-05-16 07:08 pmEntry tags:
A Trip Round Jersey - 25 Things in 2025: Thing #12
In our free days we explored St Helier, where we were staying, and took a coach tour around the island.
( A tour of Jersey )
stonepicnicking_okapi (stonepicnicking_okapi) wrote2025-05-16 12:18 pm
stonepicnicking_okapi) wrote2025-05-16 12:18 pmEntry tags:
Collage Journaling: Agatha journal
I decorated the first page of a wonderful journal I got for my birthday.
stonepicnicking_okapi (stonepicnicking_okapi) wrote2025-05-15 03:11 pm
stonepicnicking_okapi) wrote2025-05-15 03:11 pmEntry tags:
3 Weeks 4 Dreamwidth (2025) Day 21 - the end
So I finally made my sticky post with all the puzzles that DW friends recommended during the Snowflake Challenge. So today's prompt is...
Day 21: rebus
A rebus is a pictogram word play. Like this offer of escort.
May I see you home, my dear?
For housekeeping purposes, here are the past prompts.
( 3Weeks4Dreamwidth prompts )
ETA: I realize I forgot all the ficlet comms! [head smack] so they are:![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
sweetandshort, 100words, drabble_zone, fffc, emotion100, vocab_drabbles
And the website/DW comm shout-outs
DAY 21: my Puzzle sticky post: https://stonepicnicking-okapi.dreamwidth.org/606650.html
DAY 20:fandomcalendar [for learning about challenges, exchanges, and new comms]
DAY 19:kindreadspirits [for vintage horror & ghost stories and all the gayness therein]
DAY 18:endings [caption-less postings of the last sentence of works]
DAY 17:common_nature [for pretty photos of birds, sunsets, flowers, etc.]
DAY 16:prettygoodword [word-a-day fun]
DAY 15:get_knitted [craft comm--one of the best comms on DW]
DAY 14:bitesizedcleaning & unclutter [for cleaning and decluttering]
DAY 13:booknook [books & reading, another of DW's best, imo]
DAY 12: ficlet comms:sweetandshort, fffc
DAY 11:1word1day [more word-a-day goodness]
DAY 10: ficlet comms:drabble_zone, 100words
DAY 9:super_effuctive [porn fic promptfest until 31 May]
DAY 8: ficlet comm:emotion100, vocab_drabbles
DAY 7:journalsandplanners [for planners]
DAY 6:the_scent_of_lilacs [for Dracula & Nosferatu fandoms]
DAY 5: DW userdine [for interesting news-of-the-day mostly around art, nature, history, cat photos, and other goodies]
DAY 4:beautifulmechanical [for music, they've had a great set of challenges for 3Weeks4Dreamwidth]
DAY 3: Sherlock Holmes encyclopedia: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/Sherlock_Holmes,_Consulting_Detective
DAY 2: poetry: https://poets.org/
DAY 1: random question generator: https://randomwordgenerator.com/question.php
I forgot to add the questions! I really am scrambled today.
Day 21: Do you believe there is only one other person in the world for you or many?
(Except in fanfic for fun) I don't believe in soulmates or that everyone has one (and only one) soulmate. There are many different combinations and permutations, and life is long for some and cut short for others, so NO (not only one) and NO (not many either)! The concept of soulmates also interjects magic where hard work and emotional maturity and many other elements related to individuals and the society they live in matter more.
( Full list of 3Weeks4Dreamwith questions )
Day 21: rebus
A rebus is a pictogram word play. Like this offer of escort.
May I see you home, my dear?
For housekeeping purposes, here are the past prompts.
( 3Weeks4Dreamwidth prompts )
ETA: I realize I forgot all the ficlet comms! [head smack] so they are:
sweetandshort, 100words, drabble_zone, fffc, emotion100, vocab_drabblesAnd the website/DW comm shout-outs
DAY 21: my Puzzle sticky post: https://stonepicnicking-okapi.dreamwidth.org/606650.html
DAY 20:
fandomcalendar [for learning about challenges, exchanges, and new comms]DAY 19:
kindreadspirits [for vintage horror & ghost stories and all the gayness therein]DAY 18:
endings [caption-less postings of the last sentence of works]DAY 17:
common_nature [for pretty photos of birds, sunsets, flowers, etc.]DAY 16:
prettygoodword [word-a-day fun]DAY 15:
get_knitted [craft comm--one of the best comms on DW]DAY 14:
bitesizedcleaning & unclutter [for cleaning and decluttering]DAY 13:
booknook [books & reading, another of DW's best, imo]DAY 12: ficlet comms:
sweetandshort, fffcDAY 11:
1word1day [more word-a-day goodness]DAY 10: ficlet comms:
drabble_zone, 100wordsDAY 9:
super_effuctive [porn fic promptfest until 31 May]DAY 8: ficlet comm:
emotion100, vocab_drabblesDAY 7:
journalsandplanners [for planners]DAY 6:
the_scent_of_lilacs [for Dracula & Nosferatu fandoms]DAY 5: DW user
dine [for interesting news-of-the-day mostly around art, nature, history, cat photos, and other goodies] DAY 4:
beautifulmechanical [for music, they've had a great set of challenges for 3Weeks4Dreamwidth]DAY 3: Sherlock Holmes encyclopedia: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/Sherlock_Holmes,_Consulting_Detective
DAY 2: poetry: https://poets.org/
DAY 1: random question generator: https://randomwordgenerator.com/question.php
I forgot to add the questions! I really am scrambled today.
Day 21: Do you believe there is only one other person in the world for you or many?
(Except in fanfic for fun) I don't believe in soulmates or that everyone has one (and only one) soulmate. There are many different combinations and permutations, and life is long for some and cut short for others, so NO (not only one) and NO (not many either)! The concept of soulmates also interjects magic where hard work and emotional maturity and many other elements related to individuals and the society they live in matter more.
( Full list of 3Weeks4Dreamwith questions )
stonepicnicking_okapi (stonepicnicking_okapi) wrote2025-05-15 02:38 pm
stonepicnicking_okapi) wrote2025-05-15 02:38 pmPuzzles!
I love puzzles! And other DW users do, too. Here are some that have been suggested and/or recommended (in no order):
1. Exit game puzzle
2. Jigsaw puzzles
Physical puzzle brands: Re-marks, Cavallini, Galison with art by Michael Storrings, White Mountain and Ravensburger
Online jigsaw puzzles: https://thejigsawpuzzles.com/
3. Sudoku
Variant sudoku and rat maze sudoku as described on the Cracking the Cryptic Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@CrackingTheCryptic
jigsaw sudokus (with tricky shapes)
3doku
4. The Simon Tatham collection of puzzles, 40 different puzzle games, including a nonogram game
[nonogram=picture logic puzzles in which cells in a grid must be colored or left blank according to numbers at the edges of the grid to reveal a hidden picture]called "Pattern", which contains randomly-generated nonogram puzzles from any size that the player wants.
5. Yeardle for history buffs.
6. Waffle, a word game
7. kenken= an arthimatic and logic puzzle where the objective is to fill a grid with digits so that no digit appears more than once in any row or any column. KenKen grids are divided into heavily outlined groups of cells –– often called “cages” –– and the numbers in the cells of each cage must produce a certain “target” number when combined using a specified mathematical operation (one of addition, subtraction, multiplication or division).
8. Logic puzzles at Griddlers net: https://www.griddlers.net/home
9. Quordle
10. Squaredle
11. Quad nerdle
12. Connections, which is part of the NYTimes family of games: https://www.nytimes.com/crosswords
13: the AARP also has a collection of games: https://www.aarp.org/games/category/all-games/
1. Exit game puzzle
2. Jigsaw puzzles
Physical puzzle brands: Re-marks, Cavallini, Galison with art by Michael Storrings, White Mountain and Ravensburger
Online jigsaw puzzles: https://thejigsawpuzzles.com/
3. Sudoku
Variant sudoku and rat maze sudoku as described on the Cracking the Cryptic Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@CrackingTheCryptic
jigsaw sudokus (with tricky shapes)
3doku
4. The Simon Tatham collection of puzzles, 40 different puzzle games, including a nonogram game
[nonogram=picture logic puzzles in which cells in a grid must be colored or left blank according to numbers at the edges of the grid to reveal a hidden picture]called "Pattern", which contains randomly-generated nonogram puzzles from any size that the player wants.
5. Yeardle for history buffs.
6. Waffle, a word game
7. kenken= an arthimatic and logic puzzle where the objective is to fill a grid with digits so that no digit appears more than once in any row or any column. KenKen grids are divided into heavily outlined groups of cells –– often called “cages” –– and the numbers in the cells of each cage must produce a certain “target” number when combined using a specified mathematical operation (one of addition, subtraction, multiplication or division).
8. Logic puzzles at Griddlers net: https://www.griddlers.net/home
9. Quordle
10. Squaredle
11. Quad nerdle
12. Connections, which is part of the NYTimes family of games: https://www.nytimes.com/crosswords
13: the AARP also has a collection of games: https://www.aarp.org/games/category/all-games/
smallhobbit (smallhobbit) wrote2025-05-15 11:21 am
smallhobbit) wrote2025-05-15 11:21 amEntry tags:
Jersey under occupation
We had a full day tour around Jersey looking at a number of the sites of the German occupation.
stonepicnicking_okapi (stonepicnicking_okapi) wrote2025-05-14 07:53 pm
stonepicnicking_okapi) wrote2025-05-14 07:53 pmEntry tags:
3 Weeks 4 Dreamwidth (2025):Day 20
DAY 20 Prompt: Angel
Comm Shout out:fandomcalendar
20. What's something that you know that few other people know?
Well, it depends on your definition of 'few,' but I was in the Peace Corps in Bolivia and got some training in Quechua, the indigenous language of central Bolivia (and Jabba the Hut!) and compared to other languages, I suppose fewER people know it.
I know how not to get mad in traffic. I never get mad in traffic or at bad drivers or any of that. I just don't care. We're all trying to get home in one piece (for a wide range of definitions of 'home').
( Full list of 3Weeks4Dreamwith questions )
Comm Shout out:
fandomcalendar20. What's something that you know that few other people know?
Well, it depends on your definition of 'few,' but I was in the Peace Corps in Bolivia and got some training in Quechua, the indigenous language of central Bolivia (and Jabba the Hut!) and compared to other languages, I suppose fewER people know it.
I know how not to get mad in traffic. I never get mad in traffic or at bad drivers or any of that. I just don't care. We're all trying to get home in one piece (for a wide range of definitions of 'home').
( Full list of 3Weeks4Dreamwith questions )
smallhobbit (smallhobbit) wrote2025-05-14 02:03 pm
smallhobbit) wrote2025-05-14 02:03 pmEntry tags:
Jersey - Liberation Day
A couple of days ago Daughter and I returned, having been on an organised trip to Jersey (an island in the Channel Islands) to celebrate their 80th anniversary of Liberation Day.
While VE Day (Victory in Europe 1945) is celebrated on 8 May, the Channel Islands weren't liberated until 9 May. As can be imagined, there are always celebrations on this day, and particularly this year, being the 80th.
While VE Day (Victory in Europe 1945) is celebrated on 8 May, the Channel Islands weren't liberated until 9 May. As can be imagined, there are always celebrations on this day, and particularly this year, being the 80th.
stonepicnicking_okapi (stonepicnicking_okapi) wrote2025-05-13 02:15 pm
stonepicnicking_okapi) wrote2025-05-13 02:15 pmEntry tags:
News & Views: Rainy Day edition
1. It's raining, and it's going to be raining all day, and Minor's practice has been cancelled and for some reason the cancellation threw me into a sort of 'what do I do?' state of inertia. I have been wandering around trying to settle on doing something.
2. I went out with an umbrella to get some steps around the apartment complex and...I found my favorite hat in the pocket of the raincoat! So that's where it went! I thought I'd lost it somewhere. I know it's Magical Thinking but I believe the universe gives me a birthday gift every year and finding my hat is IT for this year.
3. Prompt #19 in Jo Bell's 52 is 'first time.' And I really don't want to write a poem about my first time but I couldn't think of another way to spin the prompt. So here is a 16-word senryu:
Oh, that’s it? The ground
did not swallow me up like
I’d thought. Still. That’s it.
Day 19 word: Rain
Comm shout-out:kindreadspirits
19. What do you secretly hoard?
It's a bad idea on several fronts to keep candy in the bedroom (as opposed to the kitchen), but I do hide some in my suitcase in the closet. Also, maybe not rising to the level of HOARD but I am a +1 back-up kind of person for all kinds of cleaning supplies and paper goods and household stuff. I also have a collection of fun postcards (which is growing!).
( Full list of 3Weeks4Dreamwith questions )
2. I went out with an umbrella to get some steps around the apartment complex and...I found my favorite hat in the pocket of the raincoat! So that's where it went! I thought I'd lost it somewhere. I know it's Magical Thinking but I believe the universe gives me a birthday gift every year and finding my hat is IT for this year.
3. Prompt #19 in Jo Bell's 52 is 'first time.' And I really don't want to write a poem about my first time but I couldn't think of another way to spin the prompt. So here is a 16-word senryu:
Oh, that’s it? The ground
did not swallow me up like
I’d thought. Still. That’s it.
Day 19 word: Rain
Comm shout-out:
kindreadspirits19. What do you secretly hoard?
It's a bad idea on several fronts to keep candy in the bedroom (as opposed to the kitchen), but I do hide some in my suitcase in the closet. Also, maybe not rising to the level of HOARD but I am a +1 back-up kind of person for all kinds of cleaning supplies and paper goods and household stuff. I also have a collection of fun postcards (which is growing!).
( Full list of 3Weeks4Dreamwith questions )
xdiorix (xdiorix) wrote in podfic_bingo2025-05-12 05:49 pm
xdiorix) wrote in podfic_bingo2025-05-12 05:49 pmEntry tags:
May Challenge 2025: Celebration
The theme challenge for this month is Celebration (Please include the tag challenge: celebration when you post.) Theme challenges have to do with fic choice. Since this month's challenge is 'celebration' your story has to be related to that theme one way or another.
The shape challenge is 'A shape' (tag challenge: a shape). This should be at minimum 10 squares, ie:
OOXOO
OXOXO
XXXXX
XOOOX
OOOOO
Shape challenges require that you complete a specific shape of squares on your card. If you complete a shape challenge by the deadline, you’ll win a cheat. If your card already has the shape formation before the challenge starts, you can only count that challenge as completed if you fill at least one square on your card within the challenge time period.
You can pick the challenge you prefer or do both if you're feeling ambitious. Once you’ve posted the podfic required to fulfill the monthly challenge, please comment here to let us know you’ve completed the challenge.
If you complete a challenge, you earn a cheat. If none of the challenges appeal to you, you can also earn cheats by commenting on other people's podfics.
What are Cheats?
Cheats are rewards that allow participants to manipulate their cards so that they can be finished more easily. There are 2 kinds of cheats: shifting squares and swapping out squares. Shifting squares allows participants to swap locations of two squares on their card. Swapping out cheats allow you to discard one of your prompts entirely from your card and replace it with a prompt of your choosing from the Prompt List.
stonepicnicking_okapi (stonepicnicking_okapi) wrote2025-05-12 03:21 pm
stonepicnicking_okapi) wrote2025-05-12 03:21 pmEntry tags:
My poem: Stacy
[This is modeled after "Pantoum of the Great Depression" by Donald Justice and the prompt was: name.]
Stacy by okapi
I have the better name, I think,
Wheeling the cart into the lane,
As she waits and I steer clumsily. There. Her badge.
I unload cans of beans and bananas.
Wheeling the cart into the lane,
She says ‘Hi!’ I want to snatch her badge as
I unload cans of beans and bananas.
Just reach across and grab it off her chest.
She says ‘Hi!’ I want to snatch her badge as
I pretend to be normal. I pretend that I do not want to
Just reach across and grab it off her chest.
I say ‘Hi,’ too, and push the empty cart through.
I pretend to be normal. I pretend that I do not want what
I want. A badge, a smock, a thick wrist brace.
I say ‘Hi,’ too, and push the empty cart through
And out the other side. On the conveyor belt,
I want a badge, a smock, a thick wrist brace.
“Oh, I didn’t know,” she says, tapping my pink sugar shame in
And out the other side on the conveyor belt
Of late-stage capitalism, “That they made these. Cute.”
“Oh, I didn’t know,” she says, tapping my pink sugar shame with
a well-manicured nail. What? That we are the same pawn
Of late-stage capitalism? That they made these cute?
Same doughy face, same frizzled hair, same save for
a well-manicured nail. What we are: the same. Pawn-
awkward patter, fleecy chatter,
same doughy face, same frizzled hair, same save for
our sides of the cart. But then, even
Awkward patter, fleecy chatter
Must come to an end. I know that one last look at
our sides of the cart. But then even
the cart is full again and rolling towards the door
It must come to an end. I know that. One last look. And
As she waits and I steer clumsily. There. Her badge.
The cart is full again and pointing towards the door.
I have the better name, I think.
And that is no consolation, except in poetry.
Stacy by okapi
I have the better name, I think,
Wheeling the cart into the lane,
As she waits and I steer clumsily. There. Her badge.
I unload cans of beans and bananas.
Wheeling the cart into the lane,
She says ‘Hi!’ I want to snatch her badge as
I unload cans of beans and bananas.
Just reach across and grab it off her chest.
She says ‘Hi!’ I want to snatch her badge as
I pretend to be normal. I pretend that I do not want to
Just reach across and grab it off her chest.
I say ‘Hi,’ too, and push the empty cart through.
I pretend to be normal. I pretend that I do not want what
I want. A badge, a smock, a thick wrist brace.
I say ‘Hi,’ too, and push the empty cart through
And out the other side. On the conveyor belt,
I want a badge, a smock, a thick wrist brace.
“Oh, I didn’t know,” she says, tapping my pink sugar shame in
And out the other side on the conveyor belt
Of late-stage capitalism, “That they made these. Cute.”
“Oh, I didn’t know,” she says, tapping my pink sugar shame with
a well-manicured nail. What? That we are the same pawn
Of late-stage capitalism? That they made these cute?
Same doughy face, same frizzled hair, same save for
a well-manicured nail. What we are: the same. Pawn-
awkward patter, fleecy chatter,
same doughy face, same frizzled hair, same save for
our sides of the cart. But then, even
Awkward patter, fleecy chatter
Must come to an end. I know that one last look at
our sides of the cart. But then even
the cart is full again and rolling towards the door
It must come to an end. I know that. One last look. And
As she waits and I steer clumsily. There. Her badge.
The cart is full again and pointing towards the door.
I have the better name, I think.
And that is no consolation, except in poetry.