A drunkard put a cask atop his car
so he wouldn't always have to find a bar.
Under that kind of weight --
The car's range: km - 8,
But his own range per liter wasn't that far.
Drunkard’s Cask [Limerick]
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Snail [Limerick]
The snail's friends and family were critics,
claiming -- despite being hermaphroditic:
so, with two ways to coit --
neither did it exploit,
but read books in its shell, strange & cryptic.
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Winter Sunlight [Tanka]
low winter sun
shines upon the city
while residents
walk shadow-dimmed streets
and fluffy clouds grow angry.
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DAILY PHOTO: Scenes from Kossuth Lajos tér
PROMPT: Erase
Daily writing prompt
If you could erase one movie from your memory and watch it again for the first time, which one would it be?
If Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind taught us anything, it’s that one shouldn’t go around erasing memories. So, I decline to answer. [FYI: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is not my answer because I don’t need the lesson all over again.]
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DAILY PHOTO: The Taj Mahal
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PROMPT: Motivated
That’s not so much my problem. I’m a learning addict and get hooked easily. My problem comes down the line at the point where the once blurred edges between what is of value and what is bullshit in a given discipline comes into focus. It is that point that my enthusiasm wavers.
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DAILY PHOTO: Volcano Morning
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PROMPT: Completely Surprised
I suspect this meant to imply “in a good way,” but I would like to express the view that this is often not good. It’s often because the book is inaptly titled and its blurbs and tag lines deceptively written. When I first started doing reviews I used to get (and am sure I still do but these days ignore them,) “I see you liked X, this is X meets Y!” [Where “Y” is something that is incredibly popular, and “X” was a book I had reviewed positively.] The first time I was intrigued enough to check one of these out, I found a book that bore no resemblance to X, Y, or to good writing of any kind.
The moral of the story is, if someone is selling a marketing plan about how to build blurbs, elevator pitches, titles, and other marketing information that are completely detached from the real product, ignore them. It is in no way a winning strategy for selling books. Nothing good comes of trying to trick someone.
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Crow Mind [Kyōka]
crow on lamppost
contemplates a CAW!
but is silenced
by a morsel clamped
in its beak.
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