If only the drill weren’t twenty-four dollars a foot;
if only the wells weren’t four at two-fifty feet each;
if only our way to get heat weren’t so fossil dependant;
if only we lived in a country where winter was sweet.
To drill the heat source will be twenty-four thousand at least;
to put up the unit another ten thousand they say;
and then there’s the needed power conversion upgrade;
they say that’s another five thousand and that ain’t hay.
So we’re looking at thirty-nine thousand and that’s just the top;
there’s also the survey for planning and windows’ heat loss;
and then all the incidentals like rebuilds and window upgrades;
it’s just what I thought: dig a hole and play dollar-in-toss.
Nothing else to do but laugh and stay
and party while it fritters all away.
…listed at recent tricksandtrinkets dot com website…
Words, Words, Words…
Wordsmiths, lexicographers, philologists, and creative spirits everywhere
will get a kick out this site. Verbotomy.Com, a self-described
“create-a-word game”, is a fun website that lets people compete everyday to
coin a new word or “Verboticism”.
Each day the folks at “Verbotomy” create and post a new definition
alongside a matching cartoon, after which players submit an original word
along with its corresponding “Pronunciation”, “Etymology”, and usage in a
“Sentence”. Those who are not interested in competing can browse through
the site’s creative archive, or help pick the daily winner by voting on
entries in the current challenge.
http://www.verbotomy.com