29 Dec 2009

Holiday Crisis

The holiday food prepared and ready
a restful sleep lost, your nerves unsteady

The morning reeks of impending doom
a rotten menagerie like stinky perfume

A holiday crisis with no time to spare
the food ruined and nothing to share

With two days left and no time to waste
you run to the store with the greatest of haste

You find a new fridge with high cooling power
and it can be quickly installed within an hour

your holiday saved with a lucky break
as you start all over and remake the cake

-Poem by Justin Germino

This poem inspired by an issue I had last year where my refrigerator overheated right before Christmas and spoiled all of the food in my fridge. I had to quickly look at shopping deals at all the local retailers just two days before Christmas and hope I could find a new fridge and have it delivered same day or next day.

I did compare shopping prices at several local stores and finally settled on a Whirlpool fridge and a store that could deliver the next day, so my holiday crisis was averted last year. Though I must admit this wouldn’t be as big a problem if I would have invested some time in looking at freezers I could have quickly transferred my food from my fridge to a freezer and not lost all of those groceries, but alas I didn’t have a backup.

-Justin Germino

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Damaged Cabinetry – Random Twitter Poem for October 20th

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20 Oct 2009

Damaged Cabinets is about a carpenter who sees imperfection in his work only to realize he was seeing things. It was inspired by the 9 random words (in blue) provided by the following twitter followers:
@SusanBerland (cabinets), @SurfCityJay (generated), @filigreegirl (contrapositive), @shonie1966 (nodule), @TrinaMB (patience), @yearning4d_sky (mirage), @purple_froggy (vex), @augustday1962 (unsurpassed), @shemah (seraglio), @organizedwife (Train)

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Damaged Cabinetry

Contrapositive imperfection baffles me
a twisted nodule appears in perfect symmetry

A vex for sure, my patience wearing thin
I have to fix the wood, but where do I begin

How were these slight defects generated
ruined cabinets that once were venerated

Elegant framing fit for a palace seraglio
were more expensive than you would know

Unsurpassed craftsmanship now in question
this could be my first and last impression

I train for situations, just like these
repairing wood like a doctor cures disease

Grabbing a hand saw and a wood file
this project would surely take a while

But before my work is about to start
and I begin to take the drawer apart

The damaged wood seems alright instead
a mirage it was, all inside my head

-Poem by Dragon Blogger

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