Even Barry is ready for the New Year. He handed me his New Years Resolution list this morning. It reads as follows:
1. I will exclude the cats from my diet.
2. I will not slobber on my toys I bring to you to play fetch with.
3. I will not covet the cat's food.
4. I will not steel your witting and publish it, but if I do, I'll split the royalties 80-20. 70-30? Ok, 60-40.
5. I will not use my cute look when being scolded or redirected.
I was thinking for words or phrases that seemed to define the year we are ending. I thought I'd compile a list of say 25 with the idea in mind of say in a week or two coming back to the list and using it as the basis of creating a poem to represent the positive and negative energies that made up 2006. However, I thought that I truly want the selections to represent universality So I though for the next week, in addition to my own list, I wold tally up those anyone else cared to suggest and then settle on the 25 most mentioned. So, this is audience participation time. Between now and the 7th of January, give me your list in the comments. Please, no proper names. Just words and short two or three word phrases. Here is mine for starters:
"This was Lyonnesse. /Inaccessible clouds, submarine trees / The labyrinth / Of brambly burrow lanes. Bundled women- / Stump-warts, you called them- / Sniffling at your strangeness in wet shops. /
Book: Birthday Letters - Author: Ted Hughes
hum... [drumming fingers and thinking] I guess I will tag:
