It Was A Long Drive Home

It was a long drive home on the windy dark highway. Oh, the sky was sunny and brilliant, but all that was, like everything else in life, on the other side of my windshield. I couldn’t shake the feeling that I had just encountered a member of the next wave of female guitarists. We stopped in Mojave to grab dinner and share stories. Forger was due to fly an F-16 in the morning at 7:00 am, so he decided to part ways with us there. Then we had to stop at the warehouse so Mom could check for emails. It’s been just like that for 57 years now. When I got home, my roommate greeted me with a hug. “I’m sorry,” she said. She already knew. It was back to work the next day, but the call of the mountain remained. I changed my Match.com profile to reflect that I was taken.

-Editor (search phrase “it was a long drive home”)

One of the easiest ways to do a poegle is to look for a common phrase that can generate interesting results.

For this poegle, we used the phrase “there is a saying in Russia”.  We then organized the results that we plucked from the engine into a pantoum, a form of poem that uses repetition of lines in a fixed order.

There is a saying in Russia

One old friend is better than two new ones.
Each child is given a bottle when it is born.
There are two kinds of disasters: fools and roads.
If you have a Siberian cat, then serenity moves into your house.

Each child is given a bottle when it is born.
Whenever you wake up, it’s morning.
If you have a Siberian cat, then serenity moves into your house.
There are as many borsch recipes as there are women.

Whenever you wake up, it’s morning.
Saving a drowning man is a job for the drowning man.
There are as many borsch recipes as there are women.
All will be given according to your faith.

Saving a drowning man is a job for the drowning man.
The way you enter the New Year is the way it is going to last.
All will be given according to your faith.
The good smile is the last smile.

The way you enter the New Year is the way it is going to last.
The most beautiful women live in Rostov-on-Don.
The good smile is the last smile.
Never say that you will never go to jail or end up begging on the streets.

The most beautiful women live in Rostov-on-Don.
One old friend is better than two new ones.
Never say that you will never go to jail or end up begging on the streets.
There are two kinds of disasters: fools and roads.

-Editor (search phrase “there is a saying in Russia”)