The snow. The neck. The whining continues unabated.

[valis2]

I really needed to be on the road yesterday. Fortunately my friends are understanding. My neck and left shoulder blade still hurt something dreadful. And now...snow. Everywhere. I might have been able to manage driving one-handed for six and a half hours, but in this weather it would have been more like ten (because I've done it before) and there's just no way.

_scourgify_ is turning out to be a happening comm. It's a new LotR/HP Sue Report community.

The Destiny Dice somehow managed to avoid getting in my pocket, so I have them for another day or two. I left them out next to the door so I could remember to get them back to my sister, but they were obviously not happy with that, and so here they are. Today's roll: "Happiness" and "Taurus". Yes, I would be very happy if a Taurus came over and levitated myself, my car, and my luggage to WI. Otherwise, random happiness-begatting Taurus, take your lime green Jell-o wigglers and split. Unless you are a masseuse.


With profuse apologies to Anne Sexton, from whom I stole it and mangled it beyond belief.
Squid/SS poem
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I have swam out, a possessed squid,
haunting the black waters, braver at night;
dreaming love, I have done my dance
over the Merpeople, light by light:
lonely thing, twelve-tentacled, out of mind.
A squid like that is not a squid, quite.
I have been her kind.

I have found the warm caves in the lake,
filled them with his sighs, his dark desires,
the tears that do not spill from his black eyes;
watched as he stood still and defeated:
shivering, rearranging loyalties.
A man like that is misunderstood.
I know his kind.

I have known him from afar,
waved my tentacles while he goes by,
learning the last bright thoughts, survivor
where flames still bite at him
and his ribs crack as they behold the truth.
A man like that is not ashamed to die.
I have worshipped his kind.
-------------
Originally posted here in privatemaladict's journal.
Find the original here. It's one of my favorites and certainly doesn't deserve to host a squid.

Comments

[pen-and-umbra.livejournal.com]

Y'know, I can't quite tell whether you've just endeared or scarred me for life with that poem. This bit was wonderfully re-worked:

watched as he stood still and defeated:
shivering, rearranging loyalties.
A man like that is misunderstood.
I know his kind.

So I think I'll go with endeared. Now, had it been NC-17 Squid/SS, I might've been scarred because I have a traumatic history with tentacle hentai. [/TMI]

[valis2.livejournal.com]

So glad you went with endeared, because I couldn't have afforded the therapy bills. It is a bit surreal, though, isn't it?

And for your traumatic history...I really, really, really hope that it wasn't through first-hand...er, first-tentacle experience.

The Destiny Dice claim you're going to have "Conflict" with an "Aquarius" today.

[pen-and-umbra.livejournal.com]

I smacked my toe today on the leg of the table on which my parents keep their aquarium. Does that count?

As for tentacle hentai, there's a channel here that used to play porn during the wee hours (alas, cheap German hetero porn -- so not my genre). One time when I turned on the telly, they were showing hentai. It's a fascinating genre, both culturally and aesthetically. Very dull for porn, though.

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Did the aquarium argue with you before or afterwards?

[pen-and-umbra.livejournal.com]

There was some yelling and jumping on one foot from me. The aquarium just gave the "whatever" sign and proceeded to zen out on me. Fucker.

[katazhena.livejournal.com]

This Taurus wishes she was a masseuse! I'm sorry your neck has been bothering you. In my (thankfully) limited experience, I say there's no pain worse than neck pain. I had a pinched nerve in my neck a few years ago, and it was hands down the worst pain I've *ever* experienced.

I hope your neck feels better soon, Valis. :)

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the sympathy! I am feeling a bit better, having taken Aleve and spent time on the sofa watching Underworld. That's how I expect the rest of the evening to pass, with a moment here or there online. :)

The Destiny Dice are suggesting that today you will find "Compatability" with a "Leo".

[katazhena.livejournal.com]

Maybe your masseuse will be a handsome Leo? ;)

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Oh no, they were quite convinced that it would be you finding compatability with a Leo. They said so. :p

[katazhena.livejournal.com]

Mwah?! ...wonders where I can ditch the husband... :)

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Knowing the nature of the Dice, they probably simple mean that you'll agree with a Leo. You'll be watching TV, minding your own business, when someone will appear on a commercial, mentioning that flapjacks make a nice treat, and you'll think, why yes, I do so enjoy flapjacks, especially the ones with those blueberries in them, and it will turn out that they were a Leo, and there you go. Compatability.

[katazhena.livejournal.com]

Once again, I was hoping for far too much... ;)

[cruisedirector]

...I absolutely worship your poetry skills. *G*

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Heh...don't worship me...worship Anne Sexton! She's the one who wrote the original. I just inserted a squid. ;)