Friday, December 17, 2004

Official Entry for: The Didi Miami 'Use All These Words in a Poem Contest' Code Orange With Marlita Things were never frantic with Marlita Velaquez. Code cherry and code lemon and code lime –     She’d called it tooty fruity, and we’d scorn the evening news. Like the silly French nails of Lawrence of Arabia, Her teeth glittered like diamonds     Inside her ruby mouth. French? Did I say French? We hated frogs on crisis days. The rebels feared not suicide     And Paris gave them aid and love. American style no longer strutted in a Nehru jacket, Nay, not us, no way. Our fashion was fatigues, not bouffant hairdos. But after time we became bored… Marlita withered like the rose     that decorates a topless bar     and though we clutched each others arms,     it seemed we’d wandered way to far     from days in Special Ed when we         would find escape in daddy’s car, Alas, On our last day entwined     She gave to me     One orange sock. It, to me, Meant we No longer were a pair.   12:34:46 PM    comment []

President Frightened by Enormous Possum President Bush exaggerates size of the giant possum, but not really by that much White House spokesman Scott McClellan said the president was resting comfortably today after having been scared by "the biggest possum you've ever seen." Bush had been relaxing on the White House grounds, throwing a stick to Barney the dog, when the incident occurred. After falling into an undeniably large possum hole, Barney emerged moments later barking his poor little head off in a state of heightened agitation. Moments later the possum emerged. "That was a huge possum," Bush was quoted as saying. "Man oh man. Enormous. Whew. I need lemonade. Just mind blowing. That was the mother of all possums. Humongous. All I can say is, that was a mighty big possum." Authorities have not determined why the creature was on the White House grounds. The possum, identified as a Common Brushtail Possum, was really quite large as possums go. After secret service agents wrestled it to the ground, it was weighed at eighteen pounds, six ounces, making it an enormous possum indeed. 11:10:42 AM    comment []