i am taking this holiday week off work i have the house to myself today and spent the day troubleshooting one of our satellite TV receivers and yes i got it to work again just don't ask me to repeat how i did it because i don't know also i am writing poems usually daily like the one i posted yesterday i don't know if it is a good poem i fell asleep last night reading a few pages of a journey to armenia by osip mandelstam and thinking my poem is not a poem at all it's not even an anti-poem it is a failure of writing but even failures are worth their effort so i decided to post the poem even if the poem is worth less than the exercise required for my fingers to tap the keys to type it up and publish it i did that because i hate that mealy-mouthed kind of shirking of responsibilities by some writers who refuse to claim poetry as their calling and refuse to use the noun poet to inscribe their lives whoa i'm not naming names after all everyone has a right to his/her opinions but if you write poetry and have declared poetry to be your life's work then it follows poetry becomes your life and hence you are a poet it does not matter if you are a good poet or bad poet or if history will remember your name you are a poet and should you be as obsessed with poetry as i am and i'm sure you are then everything you do turns into poetry even your life which may sound like a justification of writing and publishing bad poems but it turns out even in the end bad poetry is a work of life