One Word To Rule Them All

Happy 2024, everyone! I hope y'all's had a wonderful holiday, and are ready to do it to it in the coming year.

I spent the past couple of weeks sipping mai-tais on death's bright tropic shore, but am still here. Barb confided that the last time she saw my doctor he told her I was ten years past my sell-by date. He was completely baffled.

Don't know what to make of that, so I won't.

Do you do the One Word thing for the coming year? Here's mine...

Supercalifragilistic-

expialidocious

is the word that I will pick

for a year that seems ferocious.

Don't know if the word will stick,

sounds quite stuck-up and precocious,

but I think it's pretty slick,

and so now it has my focus,

and there you have my party trick,

conceited and loquatious,

and though I'm dumber than a brick

my appetite's voracious

for words that make me look real fine,

not just your av'rage Frankenstein.

The Five Minute Friday prompt this week is PATTERN. Hokay.

There's a pattern to the fabric,

houndstooth, herringbone, and twill

on clothing stuffed up in the attic

that I don't wear, and never will

because they really make me look

like the veriest of squares,

and that thought doth leave me shook,

for you should really be awares

that I'm a hippie to the core,

headband to my sandaled feet.

Being normal's quite the bore,

so if you drop by you should greet

me with 'Namaste!' and peace sign,

and watch eyes roll in wife of mine.

Three minutes, and truth is truth.

The 'praying hands' above were printed on an old Ender 3 3D printer which I got at scrap value and rebuilt. It took awhile to get it running but it's fun. The filament is an Ender PLA+ 'rainbow'.

Music from The Youngbloods, with what I hope can become a retro anthem for this sadly divided land, Get Together

Sylvia thinks ice cream is supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, but she shortens it to woo-woo-WOOF!