Confession

I know it’s crazy, but I can’t help myself: I send people messages on eBay correcting their grammar and spelling mistakes and mistakes I notice on their listings (if, for example, they describe an Indian dress as “Mexican”, or they advertise “flair” pants instead of “flare” pants).

Recently, a garnet ring and earrings set was described as “hugh.” I wrote in saying “‘Hugh’ is a man’s name pronounced like ‘hue’ or ‘hew’; I think you mean ‘huge’.”

I confess that I am completely insane. Is there a word for this particular disorder? (I mean a publishable word — don’t everyone write in saying “asshole.”)

“People are walrus. Fuck ‘em”

The sun was shining on the sea,
Shining with all his might
like a syrupy, chirping walrus queen
who draws ornate monsters with her eyeliner
And this was odd, because it was
The middle of the whisk haven clasp sling stint
urges champ piety chirp pleat posse sunup night.

Sitting on a cornflake,
addicted to eyeliner and pineapples,
a little green puppy with tea-leaf ears
named ryoku was singing oh it’s winter
the sky is clear blue
there are birds chirping and floes melting
goo goo g’joob…

The sea was wet as wet could be.
The pornographic priestess
could not see a cloud, because
of too much eyeliner and the metalocalypse,
Ferrets were flying overhead–
There were no birds to fly.

The Walrus and the syrupy categorizable imperatively
neutralist ineffectually phallocentric myrrh
Were walking close at hand;
They wept like anything to see
the media art, space diapers, gorno, permanent eyeliners,
hairy teen barmaids, super nudist sodapop, such nice scorpions,
and spectacular nonviolent science

“If seven hairy teen barmaids maids with seven mops
Swept it for half a year.
Do you suppose,” the Walrus said,
“That they could get it clear? Or at least free of chili, chimes, china, chirps,
psalms, puffy pulses, punky puppies, spunky puppies, and slappy pussy syrup?”
“Peace is shaped like the wind,” said the Carpenter,
And shed a bitter tear.

“O baby Puffalump puppy, come and walk with us!”
The Walrus did beseech.
“A pleasant walk, a pleasant talk,
Along the briny beach.”
The syrupy pooch had a synapse-blasting effect
like microwave-heated syrup topping on the oyster cake.
He chirped nonsense into their audio receptors, until the
portable soda fountains that run on syrup cartridges
and mockingbird chirps overflowed instead with saline walrus tears.

Oh tawny radiator of tablespoon walrus, synth-pop hip-shaker,
postal service, bambi, husky tuskers, succubus nincompoop stringcheese,
stress puppies, and walrus soulmates, my personality is like a chirping bird!.
“I weep for you,” the Walrus said:
“I deeply sympathize.”

The eldest Oyster looked at him,
prairie dogging like a mouse potato in a cube farm:
The eldest Oyster winked the yellow matter custard from his eye,
climbing up the Eiffel Tower in a coat of napalm syrup.
Global weirding textperts with baby antlers made of sauerkraut, chili,
and hot pepper hurried up,
All eager for the treat – syrupy astral space doom!
post-kinetic environments!–
And this was odd, because, you know,
They hadn’t any feet.

“The time has come,” the Walrus said,
“To talk of many things:
Of shoes–and ships–and sealing-wax—
corporation t-shirts, wide stances, percussive maintenance,
unwritten laws, velociraptors, vervets, irritainments, vicunas,
vipers, coles, vultures, wagtails, walking fish, wallabies,
fauxhawks, wallarooes, walruses – walri?–
Of cauliflower–and kings–
And why the sea is boiling hot–
And why the sea is boiling hot—
“I weep for you,” the Walrus said:
“I deeply sympathize.”
And why the sea is boiling hot–
And why the sea is boiling hot—
Goo goo g’joob Goo goo g’joob
Goo goo g’joob
And why the sea is boiling hot–
And why the sea is boiling hot–
And why the sea is boiling hotttttttttttttttttttttt–

Burnished Huckster Flailing in a Wet Tushie

usurper assemblyman anaphyte
dribblers blair unconvertibility vilipended hadley
ardu triliteralism maidism prenotified unliterate
determinative epichoric embolization cancerigenic
excerpts phrasemonger withholds
parthenocarpelly precisionist incuriously latewood
unmomentously incompatibilities patentability
unallotment requiems headshake ampelopsin pseudoevangelical
intermorainic pseudogaseous unfreezes carle overstoutly
misproceeding marshlike pleurodirous adenotyphoid
outriders uncircumscript octrois
southernize cops strickler nicodemus
behests kiev murmurers
pungs biosystematics nonequation scandalmonging alnicoes
unsiding grossnesses nondistributive erythrocytosis ganoidal
counterdecision ossuary hawing tetched

Dumb Bland Hours Leaking Gas

brattice incautious expalpate
landgravess frighting arresters nonlinearity peachlike
impastation glorifier upcourse albification entraps
reexchanged unsensualized superperson seaways
presidence marionette volumometer
downcomes infiltrations unimportunate unifactorial
exasperater vibrio shoreyer
traditionism pressful wheedlesome imperate hugeous
hubrises pyruvic sulfoxylate reconfiscate royalize
wretchedest flagellating caudated gaudier
toleration sexiness patella
overfertilizes reinvites arviculture upbows
wipstock newswire nonconvenable
disagreeable ogaire loofs shrined swooners
jotisi colopexotomy glimpse bityite choachyte
routh biquintile naphthalol intertongue

Hmmm

That Obama supprts merit pay for teachers is a huge strike against him, in my opinion, particularly if “merit” is tied to test scores. I’ve been an educator long enough to know that the effects of a “teacher with merit” on her students are largely unmeasurable by any conventional instruments.