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There. I have drafted the bloody poem about the bloody decor. The poem is even shaped like a cowboy boot. (We're supposed to be playing with visual shaping anyway. And also we need three drafts of each poem for the end-of-term portfolio.) Now can I get on with my original plan for this poem?

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jjhunter is hosting another How Are You? (In Haiku).

the last thing I need is another spendy hobby

Mom and Dad and I went looking for the third geocache at this resort today. Mom found it. The hunt was intriguing enough that I told Dad on the way back I was wondering where would be a good place to hide one of these things. "Hah," he said. "Got you."

To do geocaching, one must have a GPS-enabled device of some description, capable of displaying the lat-long to the third decimal place. I have not got any such device, and such devices are spendy. And it seems more fun when it's a treasure hunt—if the cache has something in it, you're free to take it provided you leave something of approximately equivalent value in the cache—and of course acquiring small treasures to put in caches is going to add up.

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Poem 4 is gonna break pattern. I don't think I have any choice on that point. Poems 1 through 3 were indeed all hymns to Greek goddesses (though I posted the cowboy-boot-shaped Cowgirl Heaven Decor Sucks poem 3 too, for kicks), but Poem 4 is "Write a poem based on a documentary photograph, OR a poem that exudes a documentary aura, and draws upon techniques, perspectives, or visual characteristics of photography. A documentary photograph is one made to chronicle or bear witness to significant historical or cultural moments. It must be a photograph in which the human being features prominently, though it does not have to be a portrait." And, like. Trying to get "hymn to a goddess" out of that is going to be an Interesting Exercise at which I suspect I will fail.

My first thought is actually that V-J Day kiss photo, but I don't really want to write a poem that requires a warning for nonconsensual kissing, you know?