Mis-typed tonight not just once (yeah, ‘onced’, too) but several times in a row:

fast-pasted

for

fast-paced

Thinking how dumb it is to set a vacation message at ‘work’ but not for the other email address, which is also work, and the more important work if I’m going to be that way about it, and I should have left a vacation message on this blog, too. Then on my way in here tonight reading a depressing article on how to avoid being fired for blogging, including this little paragraph, on ‘using good judgement’:

If you consider blogs and the Internet an extension of your voice, what you say on your blog about your company, product or service should be kept within the guidelines of what you would verbally say in public, according to Quintas. “Treat it with the same restraint of how you talk in person about your company, remembering that more people have access to what you say.” he suggests. “Don’t say anything different than what you would say at a happy hour, or at a company holiday party, or at an industry trade show, or in front of a customer.”

Inserting poetry for ‘company’ or ‘product’ or ’service’ seemed really funny at first, thinking of all the inappropriate things I say and have said to me at HappyHours ™ the world round. But then depressingly it came creeping in – I guess the rules of ‘good judgement’ sometimes apply or are even now being applied in poetry blog land, by meeee toooo. All the changes of the last year.

And then leave it at that. Instead of a vacation message, I have some

QUESTIONS FOR LAKE SUPERIOR

What’s the whitefish?
Perch or sucker, how deep
do those smooth rocks go
all the way out?
Approaching 500 feet
but all emptied out
at shore
there’s nothing.
Windmills?
What’s his name?
NO – I wanna know!
Don’t act like you don’t know.

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