time to check out all our virtual CARTS,
a million species come to say ALOHA
time to find out whether our republic
has morphed into a harsher show, more ROYAL
whatever we thought we were doing comes to grief
among mere slaughters, as the permafrost THAWS
Graywyvern thinks it's time? it isn't time,
the calaveras chant, amidst swift SALSA
in a savage YEAR
scant dinero, EURO;
fenced-off AREA
fellowship of the ROAD
with quicksilver VIER
a brush seldom IDLE
learn the ropes or ELSE
this last turquoise of REEF
swimmingpool feed HOSE
hail to the chief ORCA
mind lays scar on SCAR
invests with Wyndham EARL
some tower-set BASH
calavera's HAHA
chemical ACNE
throttles the ARIA
lingers the ARIA
though now add a SIGH
hole in ground i BLAB
divest of Trojan LICE
the best it's ever BEEN
hyphen for a DASH
someone else's SINS
will come to try this HASP
(via @jeffreyford8)
Gyron, two-wheel car of the future.
the sky full of arrayed flying HAFTS
halcyon · with a purely notional AZURE
rounds of tsantsa golf
call it FUGUE
whatever seems to happen
those fiery fountains of noise will TRUMP
from the real future
Graywyvern with his crimson messenger SEEPS
these days, it seems to be, more than anything we need unity in the face of the threats to our democracy. in particular, though i usually am highly critical of the democratic party myself, i have begun to realize that a lot of the attacks on particular candidates may very well originate with russian troll farms; therefore, i am presenting this meme as a reply to all such stories, facebook or elsewhere. not to be construed as an insult, but rather as a caution:
One of my co-workers at the bookstore clued me in to the fact that there actually was a first "Easter Egg" (or hidden message in video games), & it has a story behind it. This reminded me irresistibly of the Cynewulf rune signature. (Well, what i said was Caedmon...) Farther afield, of course, makers of ghazals (& also, e.g. troubadours--"I am Arnaut who gathers the wind") have a designated place to put their takhallus (nom de plume). But Cynewulf's is probably the Ultimate Easter Egg. He used, in order, the things that each rune named, as words in his poem.
This is also like Alfred Hitchcock appearing in so many of his movies as a cameo. Nowadays, this sort of thing is much more sophisticated.
