Interesting. Never heard of him, but after looking him up, i like the poem (not his other ones lol....). "Tree" reads like something Dickinson would write, though. Especially the self deprecatingly final lines: "poems are made by fools like me/ But only God can make a tree"
I was all like "Her, not him...", but yep, it's a him. Weird, all this time, though I forgot the name, I always thought it was a woman.
Smush to push a persons face into a cake. I think it’s made up but like it so much I don’t want to look it up because I want to think it doesn’t exist.
Word? Quote? Ultima Ratio Regum. King Louis XIV had it cast onto his cannon barrels. It means "The Final Argument of Kings." Honest and badass at the same time.
factotum /fakˈtəʊtəm/ noun: factotum; plural noun: factotums an employee who does all kinds of work; odd-job man mid 16th century (originally in the phrases dominum (or magister factotum ), translating roughly as ‘master of everything’, and Johannes factotum ‘John do-it-all’ or ‘Jack of all trades’): from medieval Latin, from Latin fac! ‘do!’ (imperative of facere ) + totum ‘the whole thing’ (neuter of totus ). Turns out this is also a word in Italian, which is hardly surprising considering the etymology. I love getting two for the price of one. Also, I'm going to make a point of calling people Johannes Factotum as often as I think I can get away with. Coolest shit I've heard all year.
Hobbledehoy /ˈhɒb(ə)ldɪˌhɔɪ/ noun: hobbledehoy; plural noun: hobbledehoys a clumsy or awkward youth. adjective: hobbledehoy awkward or clumsy. "his hobbledehoy hands" I first heard this word years ago on Black Books, and assumed it was some made-up nonsense. I've just now learned that it isn't, and that makes me happy.
"fleer" intransitive verb : to laugh or grimace in a coarse derisive manner : SNEER archaic : a word or look of derision or mockery Found this in an analysis of Shakespeare's Anthony and Cleopatra byIsa ac Asimov.
