Poem for Monday and USBG Season's Greenings

Kidnap Poem 

By Nikki Giovanni 

ever been kidnapped

by a poet

if i were a poet

i'd kidnap you

put you in my phrases and meter

you to jones beach

or maybe coney island

or maybe just to my house

lyric you in lilacs

dash you in the rain

blend into the beach

to complement my see

play the lyre for you

ode you with my love song

anything to win you

wrap you in the red Black green

show you off to mama

yeah if i were a poet i'd kid

nap you

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My Monday was a Monday -- computer work, laundry, cats climbing over us to sleep in front of the heat vents. After rain all weekend, it was a gorgeous day, sunny and chilly; we walked to the park in the afternoon, though both the beach there and the dock behind our apartment are still closed for the post-bomb cyclone cleanup. 

We watched some of Monday Night Football, though the most fun part of it was the Simpsons live crossover broadcast on Disney which animated the game. Then we watched The Real Full Monty, which I'd intended just to put on for the opening, but I wanted to hear James Van Der Beek talk about his diagnosis and the guys were fun. 

Now it's WWDITS time. Here are some photos of this year's Season's Greenings display at the US Botanic Garden, whose outdoor component has a multi-level model train setup with oversized pollinators made from plant parts like the mini-monuments inside, so there are big bats and bees pollinating a variety of native American flowers.