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[vivien]

Yar! Shiver me timbers, matey!

In honor of Talk Like a Pirate Day, I offer this: the brilliant Tom-Ingress thread from last year's Pirate Day at Milliways. This would be the thread in which Ingress (played by Lynette) learns exciting new pirate words and asks Tom alllll about them, giving Tom many chances for flailing.

As for the Post A Poem thingie going on, I have a confession to make. I do not love poetry. I don't hate it either, and in fact, there are a few poems I do enjoy. See, when I read, I hear the voices of the narrator, of the characters, and I have less of an ability to see the imagery. So sometimes, I just don't "get" poems, and so they can frustrate me. Also, I had the bad bad bad summer arts camp experience with poetry in high school, and I think I have a bit of a block towards poetry still.

However, I love this one:
in Just-
spring when the world is mud-
luscious the little
lame balloonman

whistles far and wee

and eddieandbill come
running from marbles and
piracies and it's
spring

when the world is puddle-wonderful

the queer
old balloonman whistles
far and wee
and bettyandisbel come dancing

from hop-scotch and jump-rope and

it's
spring
and
the

goat-footed

balloonMan whistles
far
and
wee

When the world is mudluscious... Now that imagery I get. :)