With the presidential election in full effect, Francine has been blog, blog, blogging away. Listening to "Get 'Em Out by Friday" by Genesis, she checks her email to find some poetry submissions.
Poetry submissions?
The poems are from a poet named Bruce Goose and the note accompanying the poems says that Francine's friend Hank said that she might be looking for material for her blog and he apologizes for the delay but he was busy cutting his lawn.
The first poem is "I Should Have Listened To John":
I should have listened to John.
That harried apartment building manager knew what he was talking about.
We all thought he was an idiot.
He thought the same of us.
We were college students who knew the secrets of the atom and the history of world literature.
But we didn't have enough sense not to try flushing paper towels down the toilet.
While fixing the clogged commode, John started discussing women.
No connection between the two implied.
At least not by me.
I don't know about John.
He said his first wife looked like a Playboy model.
Guys were always chasing after her.
It drove John crazy.
He had to constantly play goalie in front of her vagina.
She wouldn't do that herself apparently.
Finally, someone scored and she and John got divorced.
He's much happier with his second wife.
She's ugly.
The next poem is "To My Soon To Be Ex-Wife":
You amazed me even right up to the end.
That final time, I was impressed with your dexterity.
For it wasn't until I checked the phone records
That I realized that during that last time we made love
You had been text messaging your lover.
No wonder you wanted to do it doggie-style.
The third poem is "For The Lonely Reader":
Dear Reader,
Are you lonely?
I am, too.
But though lonely, you aren't alone.
You have me.
And I have you.
It's not much.
But it's a start.
Francine stops reading the poems and tries to figure out which of her friends is playing a prank on her.
Blog Love Omega Glee is a novel by Wred Fright about two bloggers who fall in love while the world falls apart, which is being serialized on his blog. To start reading from the beginning or read another installment, please visit Blog Love Omega Glee Central on WredFright.Com. If you like what you've read, or you've read all of Blog Love Omega Glee and want more Fright, then please read his first novel.
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