In honor of the upcoming Fourth of July celebration, here is an on-the-spot, yes-it-was-just-written poem about fireworks:
I launched her love into the sky
and set it on fire
blue
gold
violet
black
her little heart went bang.
Note: In case you are following the books I’m reading, I just started A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers.
Words of the Day (because a very nice IT guy brought this issue to my attention):
- dissemble: to trick or deceive (let’s call people who do this Dissemblicons…maybe we can make a toy line out of this?)
- disassemble: assemble’s disjointed counterpart