[text post from Gil]

[mongoosecrow]

Who: Gil and OPEN
Broadcast: Fleetwide, Text this time
Action: The Blameless
When: Another 3am post from Gil. Insomina makes people do weird things.


Back home I took a stab at poetry once. Let's see if I'm any good at it now.

......

Musings on The Fleet

They say that an audience is watching me
And I don't mean to be contrarian
But how's it nice to see me crash
And face down at least one barbarian?
I'm used to fixing ships on the fly
But back's so sore I might be an octogenarian.
My stomach's tired of eating gray paste
It's enough to make me a vegetarian.
There's plenty to do and read on the network,
We've captured the dreams of a librarian.
Just wish that I had say in what I do,
Without it sounding like a disciplinarian.
At least the company's pretty nice,
Much better than an annoying salarain.

......

Yeah I'm still rubbish. I think I'll stick to my day job.

Comments

voice

[monolike]

[omg publish this immediately] That's not true at all, I think you're really good!

Video

[dandyofawolf]

I don't know about that. I found it rather good.

[Certainly amusing.]

text

[scanninggaydis]

[No freshly woken up Felix onscreen this time, though it is like 4:30 am when he replies.]

I'm impressed by the rhyming, though.

...What's a salarian?

[Sorry Gil, he is definitely not trying to argue that it's...a good poem...]

Text

[alwayscomeback]

Wow.

Deep, buddy. Deep.

[mongoosecrow]

[Oh Sokka, don't ever change.]

I know, right? And you can think that without even knowing what a salarian is!

[mongoosecrow]

[If he did, Gil would have to question his taste.]

They are an amphibious alien race from a planet called Sur'Kesh.

Known for being wicked smart. They have minds that remember things a little too well and supposedly run a mile a minute. So fast, in fact, that they have short lifespans. About 40 years.

The one this poem is about was a particularly annoying breed. Flew the Tempest. But also helped design her. Didn't like the engineer doing, you know, engineering things to her.

[mongoosecrow]

[Gil switches to video easily enough and offers Biffy a smile.]

Well, someone has to.

[mongoosecrow]

Aw, thanks. It's not often I get compliments on my late night creative endeavors.

[dandyofawolf]

I've certainly seen far worse at the very least.

[mongoosecrow]

That sounds almost like a challenge.

[dandyofawolf]

Oh? You think you can be the worst?

[mongoosecrow]

I'm not sure. It is pretty bad.

[dandyofawolf]

I do hope you're not wanting a prize if you succeed. I'm not sure something like that should really be rewarded.

[mongoosecrow]

Everyone's groans would be reward enough.

[dandyofawolf]

Perhaps I should make sure to not groan. Simply to avoid giving you the satisfaction in the end.

[mongoosecrow]

Well sure now that I've given the game away and if you want to stand out like that.

Unless I make one that is so bad you can't help it.

[dandyofawolf]

Which will be quite the challenge since I have lived with some very dramatic young men. They could be rather creative in how terrible their poetry was.

[monolike]

I wonder why. Y'know, I always feel more creative when I'm tired too. Is that a thing?

[alwayscomeback]

[Never gonna happen.]

I'm gonna go with 'alien'. I mean, knowing you, that seems the safest bet.

[mongoosecrow]

Good guess. Though, if you ask them humans are the alien ones.

[mongoosecrow]

Not sure if I'm really tired, really. That's part of why I'm still up.

[mongoosecrow]

Ohh, some real competition! How intimidating.

[alwayscomeback]

That makes sense. We're all aliens to one another, really. Well, except for the tons and tons of people from Earth, I guess.

[monolike]

Too much on your mind?

[scanninggaydis]

[And he does have.....such good taste....

That's all very curious, though.]

Their intelligence is linked to their shorter lifespans? Do they just burn themselves out?

That sounds limiting. And maybe dangerous. Why did he object to you doing your job?