hard to kill

the two women laughed
at muddy shoes
repeatedly
clomp-clomping
on a tiny sodden shoot
that had poked through the
Most Important Sidewalk
in the city.

It was a sidewalk
that their husbands walked
a place where everybody
paid their dues
and everybody talked
and made transactions…
this cafe
in the city

“they cannot keep those weeds from growing in!”
remarked the banker’s wife,
as though she found it funny…
and yes, she was quite right
for green would fall to grey
but in time – soon enough! -
another shoot would crack the slab
meant to thwart the grasses’
tiny might

- its little right
of nothing more to grow
toward the light
to freely reach toward the sun
and stretch out
just where it liked.

EXCUSES WITH FRIENDS: Part TWO

I am achieving MORE unrighteousness in the Words with Friends-friends game. I can only say I’m sorry, and offer these excuses, which are that they wouldn’t take these perfectly fine words which are good and great and are Spelt correctly. So don’t get out the rieth of legad and beat me with it. Flarg.
(see THIS previous entry for context CLUEZ)

GLOSSARY PT. 2 (via the XONDORIAN ROYAL INTERGALACTIC EMBASSY)
[not in alpha-bet-soup-ic-al order...]

lauuv
a more dastardly sort of trowel

pimay
a sure footed and lithe water bird with a long, beak that gets into absolutely EVERYBODY’s business.

le
yet ANOTHER note to follow sol,

Zitth
Xondor’s second moon. A Very Suspicious Place, indeed.

Quegad
both the plural and singular form of the mysterious rock creatures of Zitth

qued
a quorum of Quegad

li
yet ANOTHER drink with jam and bread.

biocene
the geological epoch in which bacterial life began to form

theel
a strange substance best not discussed.

vaceby
grandma abhors a vaceby.

bisec
the vein that runs across a well pumped gym member’s upper arm at a finer workout establishment

Vaces
flower arrangements with spy-eyes.

Theid
The ruling body of the Eomen (who are clarvoiant magic users)

Rieth
SEE “Legad”

Legad
a place of good spelling. See “The Rieth of Legad”

THE RIETH OF LEGAD
The stick that you hit people with who don’t spell real good.

ilmet
an ear-creature. but it’s not really gross or anything. no really. it sounds worse than it is.

Bitti
Legal trouble of the intergalactic sort.

xealew
a tuber similar to a potato, but purplish.
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in conclusion, here is a photo of me getting all Nur Ein-y on everybody’s hiney. So LOOK OUT BELOW (i.e….where I am coming from!!!)

Nur Ein VII: Round Zero

1. And so it begins.
2. And not rather well.
3. I’m hoping it improves. I’m about to go try some piano-y stuff …
4. *deep dramatic sigh*
5. ps. this is a SUPER SECRET place this is on … so BE CAREFUL …. #sharplyindrawnbreath!

discipline

1. Moderation
2. Nutella
3. laundry :/
4. MEMORY !!!!!!!!!
5. tracks. today.
6. cleaning. finally.
7. nur EIN!!
8.

DISCIPLINE

9. filters
10. practice.

How to Cope with Being Accosted By Extroverts

1. Back away slowly. These are paradoxically both the oddest and most common of earthlings. They may flutter their Pom Poms in your face and begin chanting arbitrarily.
2. Allow them to explain the presence of “toros in the atmosphere.” Remember. A willing suspension of disbelief is key.
3. In more intimate settings, allow them to dominate the conversation.
4. Do NOT make them read beyond a third grade level.
5. DO try to check your ire, and perhaps learn what you can from their strange social practices. [NOTE: Apparently, one must engage in discourse with other humans in order to run the planet.]
6. Easily overpower them with memes and well placed social norms.
7. Set up conventions based around mutually shared areas of interest but hold secret meetings in closed session with discussion of how to take the planet’s power from the Loud and Ignorant.
8. Begin smear campaign based largely in well placed internet promotionals and other materials celebrating the casual quiet superiority of the Introvert; and decrying the drooling common idiocy of all who needily derive power from others to engage pathetically on a social level.
9. Watch society crumble.
10. Drink Jolt cola. Revel in success. Set up detention camps with mandatory times of “Quiet Reflection” and “Thoughtfulness Indoctrination.” Forbid any comparison to Godwin’s Law.
11. Celebrate new found power of introversion and your new dizzying popularity and the Era of the Subjugation of the Extrovert.
12. Organize a series of gladiatorial games to rid the earth of these aberrations once and for all!
13. Purchase Pom Poms.
14. Like … OMG! April Fools! I *totally* tested introvert on my TestyMcThing! Its @suspiciousden’s birthday, crazy-s!!! Get over yourselves!!!

I’m just trying to hang on till International Absentminded Sexy Professor in Latex Day, y’all. Shaaa…