Archives December 2005
Red Pillows
Written by
on
in
Snaking.
No-one ever told me they had passions
Dreams of screaming in the night
They were lace and velvet wrapped
Dry goods set upon 'reached racks
So I botched the first I fetched one
How was I to know they wanted kisses
When I'd been taught to woo with words
What class covered covering her waiting ...
Very small coffee and a DVD-RW recorder (Plus some mindless hours on acrostics...)
Written by
on
in
Snaking,
Vindaloo.
Had a very small, but quality turnout yesterday for the coffee house. Pleasant evening discussing history, poetry, websites and the like. Brendan has a truly prodigious memory, he can quote greater and lesser poets at length in multiple languages. He didn't recite much of his own, however. Hopefully he'll put up a selection on his ...
Four Years Apart
Written by
on
in
Vindaloo.
I once dated a woman
Briefly for a month or two
With four years to live
So the doctors said
She was vibrant
Living large on hard-earned dimes
Intent on living well
Before her mind was lost
Our first night together
Thanksgiving eve long ago
We talked 'til past the sun was up
Of life ...
Laying Bare
Written by
on
in
Vindaloo.
Rumi graces candlelit evenings
Soft and gentle mystic love
Petrarch forms great swaths of words
To soft to give to waiting doves
I crack the knitted fabric
With crusty crude cold air
Animal lust crudest love
Tearing fabric laying bare
I probably should have held my tongue
Let quiet passion's sway
Inspire the genteel crowd ...
Float
Written by
on
in
Snaking.
Faced with unceasing noise
Listen
They want to talk
Absorb
Their words that flow forever
Float
Angst, anger and emotion
Feel
They need no more chatter
Wait
They will find their fates
Hope
They will come back home
Cut Crystal
Written by
on
in
Vindaloo.
Cut crystal chalices
Have less perfect form
Hold no stronger wine
Scatter light less perfectly
Attract mens' eyes less frequently
Than these flawless lips
Wrapped round honeyed tones
Spiced with foreign deserts
Laced with thoughts of home
Forming a quiet pool of hope
From which my heart would drink
But which my mind forfends
Things were going on, I just wasn't invited yet (Poetry evening at Aleck's, then dropped in on Simon...)
Written by
on
in
Vindaloo.
I got a last-minute invite from Michelle to go to Aleck's poetry evening. Was all people I know, save for two friends of Aleck. Hadn't seen Golnar or Shadie in ages, it's even been a while for Kathryn.
Anyway, turns out the evening wasn't really about reading one's own poetry, it was more about reading ...
Mis-spent youth (I'd rather have been writing...)
Written by
on
in
Snaking.
Wound up spending the whole day on the VoIP project, wrapping up all the little loose ends of deployment, then writing a largish piece that we'll need to deploy to the public. Which is to say I didn't spend the day on thesis-related work. This is the first week since I started working on the ...
Patrick's created a new dispatcher package (Plugins and all...)
Written by
on
in
Snaking.
Just saw the announce on Python List that Patrick (the original creator of the PyDispatcher module) has created a new project for working on the pattern, Louie. Haven't downloaded it to look yet, have burned too much time with mucked up setuptools... some day I'll recover enough to try one again.
Anyway, I think ...
Rogers just keeps getting more expensive (Adding unwanted required features and taking away wanted ones...)
Written by
on
in
Vindaloo.
Rogers has just announced that they are going to discontinue their usenet feeds; no more comp.lang.python.announce or comp.lang.vrml. This comes on the heels of their attempts to strongarm us into "upgrading" to digital cable (incompatible with the PVR software on the computers) for an extra $10/month (before the cost of the hardware to adapt the ...
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Mike C. Fletcher, the VRPlumber, is a philosopher of design turned computer programmer based in Toronto, Canada. He works primarily in the Python programming language, and maintains a large number of Open Source software packages. You can reach him at: mcfletch@vrplumber.com.