Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

SONNET: ON A WALL

(2018-12-27, Facebook) by S.P. Somtow

O Wall! My Wall, my Beautiful, Big Wall
In height, ten concrete cubits, plus a door!
Surely you'll halt the grim advance of all
Those dark-skinned scum that yearn to not be poor!

O Wall! You're not as tall as I first thought,
For I can see the tops of cowboy hats.
With tariffs, concrete is too dearly bought;
We can cut taxes if we just use slats.

But then, too, slats get pricey by the mile,
We'll stretch our dollars more, and our intents
Shall still be pure, with plausible denial,
When concrete thins to slats, which shrink to fence.

Believe my massive brain! one thing is certain --
No rapist crook will pierce my beaded curtain.

[Happy fifth day of Christmas, to folks celebrating!]

Getting around to changing more things to fit my new name. The username daphne was already taken, so I thought about renaming my journal something cute and guitar related, but settled on making folks learn to spell my middle name. I know it's tricky, sorry, but if I understood the FAQ correctly, y'all can still use my deadname and it'll redirect you to here even if Eftychia is too hard to spell. ;-) Though I guess I should make a sticky entry to help folks with the pronunciation (eff-ti-HEE-ah).

Slowly working through changing my screen names and account names and bios and links on various sites -- it'll be a project for a chunk of 2019. When a lot of these sites were younger, fewer names were already taken (and "dglenn" is not super-common, though there is some competition for that login; a couple of people with the surname Glenn beat me to it here and there) so I could be dglenn / d'Glenn / DGlenn / etc. most places. Trying to rename things (or sign up for new accounts) now, I can't just be Daphne everywhere ... nor Eftychia everywhere (the 'net is global) ... and I'm not sure how long I want to let a username get (daphneeftychia feels longish to make people type), so I'm going to put up with having several different logins for different places. Still trying to decide what to rename my Twitter account, since daphne, daphnee, and eftychia are all taken there.

But I did at least get an easy email address to remember -- daphne@panix.com (my old address will forward there for a while because I like old friends being able to find me when they pop up in my life again, and not everybody will be up to date).

Ok, now let's see whether this breaks my QotD script tomorrow morning.