Saturday and a Poem and the Freedom of the 'Verse

[nightdog_barks]

Sunny and humid and, pretty much out of nowhere, hot. Bleh. Swept the kitchen floor and Chango helped by inviting the broom to play. *g*

The new issue of The New Yorker came today, and it looks really good (it's a science-fiction edition). Here's a poem from Kay Ryan, called The Octopus ...

The Octopus

The octopus has
eight of something.
If they're legs then
all the arms are
missing. Nature often
makes mistakes in
distribution. You'd
think it would be
more distressing. Too
many rubber legs with
suckers, too many sets
of teeth on top each other:
some button in the
shop stuck on or off.
Sometimes a brain-feed
sticks until the brain
that gets delivered has
a hundred times the
strength it needs in
nature. Which changes
nature. A hundred
other creatures
gang together in a chain
of mutual interest
they wouldn't have perceived
without the strange intelligence.


~ Kay Ryan
From The New Yorker, June 4th & 11th, 2012



Also. So you guys know that blackmare and I wrote this post-finale Housefic called A River Out of Eden. Just so folks know -- that ficverse? Is open source. Anyone who wants to write into it, to use it as a jumping-off point, to remix it, to knock it down and wear it out ... go for it. :-D

Comments

[taiga13]

Hello! I just finished watching 50/50, a really good film. I brushed the cats, who then proceeded to eat the hair I'd removed. Gross little creatures.
I hope writers do jump into your ficverse!

[nightdog_barks]

OMG DISGUSTING. Heh, sometimes when Chango chases her tail and catches it, she pulls out some long hairs that she'll swallow if I don't take them away from her. *g*

Is 50/50 the one with Joseph Gordon-Levitt? I want to see it. And yeah, it's actually a pretty good little ficverse! It would be cool if it talked to someone else. :-D

[taiga13]

Is 50/50 the one with Joseph Gordon-Levitt?
(checks imdb) Yes it is. I was told it's based on a true story, which is what imdb says too.