Normal post, a day late

Today is just another
Day he spent dying,
Which is what every wasted
Minute felt like.
Every wasted night
Every hungover morning
When the sheets clung,
Clutched, stuck to skin
And tried to trail
Into the bathroom
A mocking cape of mediocrity.

Joints creaked
Every step a jolt,
Cartilage long gone
Bone on bone,
Back to the grindstone.

Poem:
A bit depressing I suppose, but it's just where my train of thought wound up going. I sort of wrote this line by line, with whatever sounded like it would follow the line before it well.

Observation:
So the world is still intact as far as I can tell. This is good news. It's probably good news every day, but with the threat of rapture having passed last weekend, it's a bit more of a relief than usual. So I was having a good time making fun of the fact that the prediction was wrong and looking at rapture bomb photos (google it; it's funny), when it occurred to me: maybe the rapture did happen. Maybe all of the deserving people did go to heaven. And when somebody says "but everyone's still here" I'll just say "exactly."

Exercise:
Write a fictional news story about an adoption agency selling shaved apes as babies.

A new scam has been cropping up recently in many major cities as environmentalists begin to realize how little people really understand about primates. The movement reportedly began as a joke, with one ape baby substituted for a human child just for humor's sake. However, when the mother hardly seemed to notice the problem, conservationists everywhere saw an opportunity. They underwent the process of infiltrating many major organizations and gradually distributed the apes to foster parents. Apparently there plan was to reveal the identities of the "children" in order to garner sympathy and attention for the plight of their species. This plan backfired, however, when it turned out the apes were better liked and more intelligent than the babies they replaced. When the trick was tried in reverse, though, the apes would have none of it, resulting in numerous infants being hurled a remarkable distance.

Me:
I meant to have this up yesterday but fell asleep instead. But it turns out I'm leaving for bike races in the morning on Friday, so I probably won't update then, making this a good delay. It sort of fills in for both days. I have four races in four days this weekend, which could be a disaster. The biggest weekend of the season by far, so hopefully I stay upright. Not a lot else to say. I'll give a bit of a report either during the weekend or after it's all over. Stay tuned for news, I suppose. Thanks as always for reading!