Tanka challenge 11/3/08

Is this greyness dawn
Or simply the slow advance
Of the autumn fog?
She wakes alone in the dark
To the hiss of autumn winds.

Things that.... November 3.

Thing #1. People are rising to the tanka challenge. I've seen some really good poems so far too.

Thing #2. I get out of work at 4 PM which should give me enough time to stand in line, cast my vote, then hunker down with my new Musketeer DVDs for the evening. I'm sick of daily emails from the Democratic National Committee and having my music interrupted by despicable 30-second lies and sign stealers and Sarah Palin's wardrobe budget and the egregious misuse of the word "maverick" and the taking of the name "Joe" in vain and cut-and-paste political memes and hatefulness and hysteria and people who don't even live in my state telling me what to vote for and I cannot wait for it to be DONE.

Thing #3. Live is WAY more attractive than dead. Keep your pasty-ass vampires.
Exhibit A, Actor Alexander Skarsgard alive:          Exhibit B, Alexander Skarsgard undead.