Tanka Challenge 11/13/08

Even garden shrubs
Have vanished in the greyness.
The world seems muffled.
Yet no ghost approaches me
In this all consuming mist.

'Scuse me while I hail that express handbasket.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the WTF moment of the week.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081113/ap_on_re_us/obama_catholics

I come from a long, proud, distinguished line of smart mouthed, liberal Democrat votin' Irish Catholics on my mother's side of the family. On behalf of the McGees, Simons, Carlins and Foleys, I say, bite me, Father, for I have sinned. Not.