Situation Normal (All Fucked Up)

So, today my power got cut off - and through no fault of my own. Apparently, the gods at DTE didn't see fit to follow the proper procedures to get our name and account at the house properly and the previous owner owes $2200+. The best part? Some of these charges are current, and WE'VE BEEN PAYING OUR BILL. So, of course I had to empty my fridge and bring it all over to my in-laws' so the food wouldn't go bad. Of course I had to pack up my kids, and of course we're staying at my in-laws' for tonight at least so the kids can have dinner and breakfast and what not. The best part? Not so much the current charges and the fact that we've been paying our bill. The best part is that DTE isn't scheduling field visits until Monday or Tuesday NEXT WEEK. And it's HOTTER THAN HELL. And I may be stuck here until then.

Dear god(dess), save me.

Poetry

It's been a very, very long time since I wrote much of anything that wasn't for gaming or pseudo-professional - this was written a week or two ago and lives on my myspace profile for now, though if (when, whatever) I write again it'll get moved to the blog there to make room for the new piece.

I am an astronaut
I am a saint
what luck that what I am
is exactly what you ain't

I am a person
I am a scholar
in a land where good grammar
isn't even worth a dollar

To make you listen
to make you see
I compromise things that are of value to me
but I shouldn't
but I needn't
(or so they all say)
what is it that
you'll be taking today

Look at my stanzas
my A-B-C-B rhyme
it's structure we need
but this structure ain't mine

Why, we all ask
and still we all do
what it is we think other people
are expecting us to

and

and I

and I said

To make you listen
to make you see
I compromise things that are of value to me
but I shouldn't
but I needn't
(or so they all say)
what is it that
you'll be taking today