The biggest question
for many of my friends
as they slice and dice
and chat and scat
and tweet and skeet
the news from war zones
round the world
under all their other questions
is
who are you rooting for
I’m sure they would
deny that
claiming instead
to hate all war
and wishing it was
all gone away
but
I have to ask
who are you rooting for
I think what they truly want
is for the prettier flag bar graph or table to win
the only war they actually care about
being the war to shut adversaries up
through superior use of graphics
invocation of Godwin’s Law
well turned meme
well framed news story comment
who are you rooting for
Buddy
you are rooting of course for yourself
You’ll be sad when that other war is over because
it’s a messy one indeed that never seems nailed down
and without an accurate body count at the end
your charts will suffer
Dark Matter 
November 20th, 2012 at 12:43 pm
First of all I would like to say excellent blog!
I had a quick question which I’d like to ask if you do not mind. I was curious to know how you center yourself and clear your thoughts prior to writing. I have had difficulty clearing my thoughts in getting my thoughts out. I truly do take pleasure in writing however it just seems like the first 10 to 15 minutes are usually lost simply just trying to figure out how to begin. Any ideas or tips? Thank you!
November 20th, 2012 at 1:47 pm
Thank you! I think the answer that is best is to say that, simply, I just feel free to discard the stuff that comes up that doesn’t work for me. Sometimes it takes fifteen minutes worth of crap writing to get clear…sometimes, it takes two hours. So how do I clear it? By writing. I don’t get too attached to what I write when I start free-writing at the beginning of a session.
November 18th, 2012 at 5:25 pm
self is certainly a preoccupation, inescapable.