Rainbow Snail & Poem

The snail is intended to attract your attention, assuming you all like shiny, colourful things as much as I like snails. The poem is about NaNoWriMo, and is… well. It’s short, at least.

My friend the snail sits next to the words ‘Research Wish List’, because beneath it I have complied a wish list of books I want to help with research for NaNoWriMo; which I can’t get at the moment because academic books cost an arm and a leg. I just bought a leg’s worth, and I need both my arms for typing.

As for the poem, well, I generally dislike poetry and find it pretentious, which is unfortunate since I seem to get the urge to write it from time to time. This one was also inspired by NaNo.

For the updated version where the N in the second ‘November’ doesn’t have a raindrop mark marring its corner because it’s on your computer screen instead of a notebook I took out just as it was beginning to rain, (and there are also one or two minor word changes) behold:

POEM

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November is coming.
The eight unfinished freaks shall soon welcome a ninth into their company;
And even the first line of this poem is a reference to someone else’s work.
Once again, the eyes of my imagination have overreached the stomach of my ability.
November is coming.
Shit.

Look out, Keats.