Monthly Archive for January, 2006

retracing a moisture heist

picnic hip rents
questions on stamina

cocky spacecraft
claim servitudinal mobster crossings

I’m afraid I’m being anywhere
greasy matchsticks in my hair

snore plosive mace foster
facial motion social posture

forge coaster beverage circles
mistaken cork querker
lay still gentle boss here

ode to hero rock knob anthems

I taught myself a little lesson
or did I catch it from someone I bite?
Is this a riot or procession?
Is red your color or is black and white?

I’m meeting gorgons¹ at the trailhead.
Their stony gaze it really tents² my fob³.
I thought that I could get a respite
and now I’m being asked to do my job.

That’s why they pay me
to kick me on the chin,
to call them lady.
I know when to stop. I know when to begin!

  1. gorgons
  2. tent (tnt)
    n.

    A small cylindrical plug of lint or gauze used to keep open or probe a wound or an orifice.

    tr.v. tent·ed, tent·ing, tents

    To keep (a wound or orifice) open with such a plug.

    [Middle English tente, from Old French, from tenter, to probe, from Latin tentre, to feel, try. See tentative.]

    Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
    Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
    Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

    tent (tnt)
    tr.v. Scots tent·ed, tent·ing, tents

    1. To pay heed to.
    2. To attend; wait on.

    [Middle English tenten, from tent, attention, short for attent, from Old French attente, from Vulgar Latin *attendita, from feminine past participle of Latin attendere, to wait on. See attend.]

    Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
    Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
    Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

    tent (tnt)
    n.

    1. A portable shelter, as of canvas, stretched over a supporting framework of poles with ropes and pegs.
    2. Something resembling such a portable shelter in construction or outline: “her hair a dark tent, her face a thin triangle” (Anne Tyler).

    v. tent·ed, tent·ing, tents
    v. intr.

    To camp in a tent.

    v. tr.

    1. To form a tent over.
    2. To supply with or put up in tents.

    [Middle English, from Old French tente, from Vulgar Latin *tendita, from feminine past participle of Latin tendere, to stretch out. See ten- in Indo-European Roots.]

    Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
    Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
    Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

    Main Entry: tent
    Pronunciation: ‘tent
    Function: noun
    : a canopy or enclosure placed over the head and shoulders to retain vapors or oxygen during medical administration

    Source: Merriam-Webster’s Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.

    tent

    n : a portable shelter (usually of canvas stretched over supporting poles and fastened to the ground with ropes and pegs); “he pitched his tent near the creek” [syn: collapsible shelter] v : live in or as if in a tent; “Can we go camping again this summer?”; “The circus tented near the town”; “The houseguests had to camp in the living room” [syn: camp, encamp, camp out, bivouac]

    Source: WordNet ® 2.0, © 2003 Princeton University

    tent

    (1.) Heb. ‘ohel (Gen. 9:21, 27). This word is used also of a dwelling or
    habitation (1 Kings 8:66; Isa. 16:5; Jer. 4:20), and of the temple (Ezek.
    41:1). When used of the tabernacle, as in 1 Kings 1:39, it denotes the covering
    of goat’s hair which was placed over the mishcan.

    (2.) Heb. mishcan (Cant. 1:8),
    used also of a dwelling (Job 18:21; Ps. 87:2), the grave (Isa. 22:16; comp.
    14:18), the temple (Ps. 46:4; 84:2; 132:5), and of the tabernacle (Ex. 25:9;
    26:1; 40:9; Num. 1:50, 53; 10:11). When distinguished from ‘ohel, it denotes
    the twelve interior curtains which lay upon the framework of the tabernacle
    (q.v.).

    (3.) Heb. kubbah (Num. 25:8), a dome-like tent devoted to the impure
    worship of Baal-peor.

    (4.) Heb. succah (2 Sam. 11:11), a tent or booth made of
    green boughs or branches (see Gen. 33:17; Lev. 23:34, 42; Ps. 18:11; Jonah 4:5;
    Isa. 4:6; Neh. 8:15-17, where the word is variously rendered). Jubal was “the
    father of such as dwell in tents” (Gen. 4:20). The patriarchs were “dwellers in
    tents” (Gen. 9:21, 27; 12:8; 13:12; 26:17); and during their wilderness
    wanderings all Israel dwelt in tents (Ex. 16:16; Deut. 33:18; Josh. 7:24).
    Tents have always occupied a prominent place in Eastern life (1 Sam. 17:54; 2
    Kings 7:7; Ps. 120:5; Cant. 1:5). Paul the apostle’s occupation was that of a
    tent-maker (Acts 18:3); i.e., perhaps a maker of tent cloth.

    Source: Easton’s 1897 Bible Dictionary

  3. fob (fb)
    tr.v. Archaic fobbed, fob·bing, fobs

    To cheat or deceive (another).

    Phrasal Verb:
    fob off

    1. To dispose of (goods) by fraud or deception; palm off: fobbed off the zircon as a diamond.
    2. To put off or appease by deceitful or evasive means: needed help but was fobbed off with promises.

    [Middle English fobben, probably from fob, trickster.]

    Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
    Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
    Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

    fob (fb)
    n.

    1. A small pocket at the front waistline of a man’s trousers or in the front of a vest, used especially to hold a watch.
    2.
    1. A short chain or ribbon attached to a pocket watch and worn hanging in front of the vest or waist.
    2. An ornament or seal attached to such a chain or ribbon.

    [Probably of Germanic origin.]

    Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
    Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
    Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

    FOB
    abbr.

    free on board.

    Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
    Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
    Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

    free on board
    adj. & adv. Abbr. FOB

    Without charge to the purchaser for delivery on board or into a carrier at a specified point or location.

    Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
    Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
    Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

    Free On Board – FOB

    A trade term requiring the seller to deliver goods on board a vessel designated by the buyer. The seller fulfills his obligations to deliver when the goods have passed over the ship’s rail.

    When used in trade terms, the word “free” means the seller has an obligation to deliver goods to a named place for transfer to a carrier.

    Investopedia Commentary

    Contracts involving international transportation often contain abbreviated trade terms that describe matters such as the time and place of delivery and payment, when the risk of loss shifts from the seller to the buyer, as well as who pays the costs of freight and insurance.

    The most commonly known trade terms are Incoterms, which are published by the International Chamber of Commerce. These are often identical in form to domestic terms, such as the American Uniform Commercial Code, but have different meanings. As a result, parties to a contract must expressly indicate the governing law of their terms.

    It’s important to realize that because this is a legal term, its exact definition is much more complicated and differs by country. It is suggested that you contact an international trade lawyer before using any trade term.

    Source: Investopedia.com. Copyright © 1999-2005 – All rights reserved. Owned and Operated by Investopedia Inc.

  4. Most frustrating blog evar. I need to consider moving this to a better format. This punctuation will NOT behave.

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We hung out w/ a guy into new-age
voodoo farming. Ritualistic
argicultural use of animal
horn. His biodynamic methods
will leave all you organic
farmers in the soil and he
a superman.

I shared the living-room floor with
a tooth-missing bike courier
dumpster-diver and another organic
farmer slept on the loveseat with his
legs hanging off.

An amazingly drunk girl named Charity
wore Carharts, called me “sloth man” and grabbed
at everyone she walked past. She
took forever leaving because she
lost her shoes and ended up wearing
Aaron’s bowling shoes home.

A chubby pseudo-homosexually
mannered kid prated on & on about
his trips at some large events, his
more visually credible sidekick a skinny
hippy-ish guy w/ big hair in an oversized
yarn hat.