A week and a half! At least I'm about equally behind at everything — email, real mail, garden-work, reading, exercise — everything but drinking and what I get paid for. And since I am so far behind, let me point you to the July archives of A New Broom for a series of interesting posts on novelty and, especially, this poem, built of two hay(na)ku surrounding a reverse hay(na)ku.
It's a masterful piece of rhetoric, though I wonder how many people under 50 or so know why a bikini has that name:
Etymology: French, from Bikini, atoll of the Marshall islands in the northern Pacific, site of atomic bomb tests of 1946; from the comparison of the effects wrought by a scantily clad woman to the effects of an atomic bomb
: a woman's abbreviated two-piece bathing suit
"bikini." Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged. Merriam-Webster, 2002. http://unabridged.merriam-webster.com (21 Aug. 2004).
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