Science fiction, fantasy, mystery and what-not
It happened on a Monday
I thought it was a Sunday
not the change I sought
When it came Thursday
it was supposed to be Tuesday
the man told me, that’s what I’d bought
I hunted Friday and found Saturday
a tattered day if I ever knew one
So I hung onto Wednesday
the only real friendly day
drunk like another day doesn’t matter.
One cat hissed at another. The other responded with a wail. Tails went down. Assuming combat stances, they circled one another.
“Stop,” the man said, “going past them. I don’t need this today. You two have lived together for over two years. When are you going to stop acting like animals?”
Bifloofisan (floofinition) – an effort or decision involving the agreement or cooperation of at least two housepets that usually oppose one another’s agendas.
In use: “Mounting a bifloofisan effort, the cats stopped their fighting to harass Peter until he finally got out of bed and fed them, even though it was three in the morning.”
Thinking of many things today, and from that morass streamed an old Tom Petty song.
Many consider “Breakdown” (1977) to be the Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers’ breakout song. It’s a mellow, reflective sound with some edges, a sweet and weary reflection of love and trying. I prefer the live version included in An American Treasure.
Michael Seidel, writer 