My heart literally stopped when I read this

Engagement

Whaaaaaaaaaaat???

Life in Large Format

Walking home in a fur coat
I pass homeless men
Hop puddles in worn down shoes
without
arch support

SPLASH

Into a puddle
Causes panoply of thoughts, unpleasant

Perturbed am I by soaking sneaker
frostbitten toe, frozen

naked

Along the way I've met my man
he helps.

We hobble up Shaw street
Korean grocery bag on one arm

We shiver while we pass
Big screen televisions
Corner store DVDs and
One thousand Christmas lights

Sunday

One more email and
It's one more Prize for Poetry.

Cash prize-deadline,
Can-you-string-those
Words together?

And I'll send it in with a full name
He doesn't go by.

Then we wait by the window for news
or a
Bird

Something about fear of death by carbon monoxide poisoning.

In my dream, in the old house, she is pacing by the window, hysterical. Each passing car she points out. Each passenger, each driver, another one who doesn't love her. I scream at her "forget it!"

I storm out. She falls apart.

From the Daily Show re: C-A-N-A-D-A

Reporting from today's Globe and Mail:

He spoke of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's move to suspend Parliament rather than face a non-confidence vote that could topple his government.

“Force him from office? You can do that?” Stewart half-whispered to the camera. “Because we've had no confidence in our guy for quite some time now. And he's taking forever to leave.”

Stewart then showed video footage of a protester yelling, “what are you afraid of, sir?” at Harper. An incredulous Stewart mocked, “Sir? You're heckling him, it's not a job interview! Do you Canadians save all your obnoxious-ness for hockey games?”

Stewart also noted that Canada's chief export “is jokes that they are the butt of.”