I heard this haiku in my head when I was opening mail ( Read more... )

Everyone I have a crush on has a name that starts with a J. If you know me at all, you should be able to guess one. 1000 bonus points if you guess all three. But, of course, if you get any right I'll have to delete your post - wouldn't want to make it too easy for the other players.

The pebbles forgive me
The trees forgive me
So why can't, you forgive me?

In southern California, the weather is very nice, almost all of the time. In the dead of ( Read more... )

A Sonnet In Which A Microwave Is Once Again Personafied ( Read more... )

Cats:+ Their rubbing on me creates a sense of neededness ( Read more... )

My cousin makes tassel dolls. She takes regular, broken and ugly ceramic dolls, and turns them into neat little dolls that at their waste become tassels. The byproduct of this hobby is, however, many little ceramic legs. She has boxes of them. When I became excited at the bizarre sight of hundreds of dismembered doll legs, she gave them to me ( Read more... )

"Why is the floor covered with powder?...I liked the carpet better."

It was a teenage wedding, and the old folks wished them well
You could see that Pierre did truly love the madamoiselle
And now the young monsieur and madame have rung the chapel bell,
"C

Me, after unwrapping a towel I found on the kitchen table, under some fireworks:
"Oh, so that's where that ear of corn went!"