Tick

(By Vivian Richmond)

"Time," I've heard, "is a silver pocket watch.
God, the great Time-Keeper. He, the One,
winds our lives with thumb and finger twist."

Pray you to the hand that holds the watch.
One and only snaps the lid tight shut,
cutting off our ever sorry lies.

Drop a bottle cap, and you will not
hear the Tick of Time. A wristwatch may
Tick just so, as penny 'gainst the dime.

Time's great Tick is thund'rous loud. Fear
stroke and gong of monstrous Notre Dame.
It is coming, fast and strong. Time

does not stop for likes of you and I.
Death comes marching, link by link, a chain
lying in the open palm of God's right hand.

Tock.

Ice Planet

I cannot express how utterly excited I am by the prospect of making real, honest to God ICE PLANET! I found this most wonderful, glorious link today: The Trouble with Ice Planet. Go look!

Klepto

"Kleptomania (also spelled cleptomania) (Greek: κλέπτειν, kleptein, "to steal", μανία, "mania") is the condition of not being able to resist the urge to collect or hoard things."

My roommate is not a klepto. She's a thief. Before, I believed her little antics to be humorous - a mere "Fuck you!" to The Man. I understand stealing odds and ends from Walmart or Kmart or other monopolies. I myself have shoplifted a couple of items; all you have to do is take off the barcode. But when I take her to my favorite cafe/shop of all time, tell her it's my favorite place to come and chill and I'll always be found there when I visit Lexington, she still goes and steals a necklace from the front.

It deeply wounds my soul to be so deceived. I assumed she had some morals, some values when it came to her relieving a store of a few bits and bobs. I thought that perhaps she only stole from those who didn't need the money, those who wouldn't miss a little something here or there, those who were not useful to society or honorable in business. But no. She stole from the most loving, community-oriented, down-to-earth, trusting coffee shop in existence.

She is not a kleptomaniac. It's premeditated.

I find it despicable.

How do I tell her?

Renew, Reuse, Redesign

I have updated the look of my site. And hopefully I'll update the content as well. We shall see.