And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour."
-William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
zefrank: True Facts About The Sea Pig (Scotoplanes globosa)
Not Iambic….Do Not Accept…
These tags I’ll pop, and boast in rhyming verse
that what I wear puts swagger in my gait;
though twenty shillings have I in my purse,
my self-esteem and manhood both inflate
when lofty furs I purchase for a cent.
Thy grandpa’s clothes are worthy salvage, though
they smell a trifle musty. Still, I spent
much less to dress myself from head to toe.To save or not to save? The question’s moot.
I’ll never give my coin to high-street crooks.
These dusty shelves will yield their hidden loot
to those, like me, more frugal in their looks.
Like ancient coins washed up on distant shores,
I’ll find my treasures in these thrifty stores.
- Macklemore, “Thrift Shoppe”
This is no joke, it really happened in my first responder class today
- My EMR instructor: You arrive at a scene with a patient laying on the ground. You check their level of alertness and they appear unconscious. You have already opened their airway with an adjunct and are administering oxygen.
- What do you do next?
- Student: Call 911!
- My EMR Instructor: YOU ARE 911.
“women are weaklings!”
i’m strong enough to carry
your corpse to the woods
I’ll be spending Valentine’s Day with myself in all possible quantum states because no one will be observing me on a date
Update from Canada.
All the snow has turned to maple syrup and we are slowly drowning in it. The moose have all fled leaving us with no escape.
And the worst part is, we don’t know who to apologize to.
It really does not feel like Christmas for me until I break out the 60” animated chenille Stegosaurus.
“Ōkunoshima (大久野島) (…) is often called Usagi Shima, or Rabbit Island, because of the numerous wild rabbits that roam the island; they are rather tame and will approach humans.”
